[Python-3000] [Python-Dev] No releases tonight

[Steve Holden]

Christian Heimes wrote:
> Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> In this case, there was a lot more work to do because 2.6 wasn't tied
>> in at all.  Add to the fact that I didn't have any experience with the
>> website infrastructure made things a bit more difficult the first time
>> out.  I still don't quite have the 2.6 links working correctly in my
>> local fs.  So the biggest problem is really: what steps do you take
>> when you need to expose a new major release on the website?
> 
> Starting with the first betas of 2.6 and 3.0 we should also work on
> official texts for the press. Other projects like PHP are drawing lots
> of attention with their releases, even with bug fix and security
> releases. Bad news are better than no news - a beta release is *good* news.
> 
> When 3.0a2 was released I contacted two larger German IT news sites. Non
> of them even bother to reply. :/
> 
> I propose that we provide two official texts for the press. A shorter
> text which explains Python and the most important changes since the last
> version in a few paragraphs and a longer, more detailed text like
> Martin's text for the 2.5.2 release.
> 
> I also propose translations of the shorter text to important languages
> like French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. I'm willing to
> help with the German translation.
> 
> Christian

PyCon is using a PR team to help with publicity. Maybe we can ask them 
for assistance on how to get the word out?

regards
  Steve
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