3.0 Release Day Planning

This is the planning page for the GNOME 3.0 release day (6 April 2011).

Beforehand

• Make the new gnome.org go live with a teaser home page - big 'coming soon' sticker, perhaps with with a countdown timer (Andreas)
  ovitters: you cannot, needs much more preparation!!!

• Set the ttl for library.gnome.org (Olav)
  done. 2011-03-29: Set to 10min

• News item on the gnome.org website (Allan or Sumana)
• Make sure we have a 3.0 entry for the GNOME version field in Bugzilla (Andre/Olav)
• Prepare announcement email and submit to translators (Vincent)
• Put the release notes on library.gnome.org (Allan)

Release day

• Switch to alternative Planet GNOME theme (Alberto)
• Publishing the release on FTP (Vincent)
• Sending announcement mail to gnome-announce list and devel-announce-list (Vincent)
• Forward the announcement email to release party organisers (Pockey)
• Switch DNS for new library.gnome.org and change TTL to default (Olav)
• Something needs to happen on gnome3.org (Andreas et al)

• Update ThreePointZero: 'it's been released!' (Allan)

• Tidy up references to the release date on gnome3.org (Allan)

General things

• Bittorrent access to a live CD?
• Blogging, tweeting, etc
• Blog and tweet about release parties
• Pump as much material through the GNOME feeds as possible (Allan)

Comments and Discussion

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