[cut-team] Draft announcement for CUT 2011.03 release candidate 1

[Michael Gilbert]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon Feb 28, 2011 at 08:57:23 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:52:43 +0100 Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
>>
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > Am 28.02.2011 01:23, schrieb Michael Gilbert:
>> >
>> > > Based on Stefano's feedback, I have reworded the draft announcement.
>> > > If you like it, please respond with a +1.  If not, -1 and feedback.  See
>> > > below.
>> >
>> > Sending something like that will surely be picked up by the press.
>> > Please refrain from doing so without coordination of the publicity-team.
>> >
>> > Having said that, I highly recommend *not* to send out anything, as long
>> > as the concept is still under discussion (which seems to be the case for
>> > me as an outsider).
>>
>> I'm intending this more as a small technology preview primarily geared
>> toward the -devel community for now (although others may pick up on it).
>> There's a danger in bringing snapshot.debian.org to its knees if this
>> gets too much publicity too soon.
>>
>> Also, based on discussions here, it has been decided that this will not
>> specifically be labeled as a part of CUT (yet), so I don't think it
>> will get too much publicity since it won't fall under that interesting
>> label.
>>
>> Do you have any suggestions for wording to make it clearer that this is
>> more of a preview/test?
>
> I understood Tolimar's posting as in: if you want to post something like
> this, please coordinate with the publicity team.

I'd be very happy to receive feedback and coordination from the
publicity team, but I've never seen that as a prerequisite for a
posting to -devel before.

Best wishes,
Mike