[Mageia-marketing] Communication about the alpha and the ISO 0 release

Wed Feb 9 11:18:27 CET 2011

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 01:00, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
+> 2011/2/8 Marcello Anni <marcello.anni at alice.it>:
+>> yes : ) the ancient wise says "if you want a thing to be remembered, put it on
+>> its name" : ) (copyright by Marcello Anni 2011)
+
+Good point.
+
+> But I agree in one point - it may be good to find a more meaningful
+> name than "Beta 1".
+
+At this point, it is an _alpha_. Beta releases are for April. :)
+
+"Mageia, factory alpha 1" would be a short name (it's already long
+enough like that) that would remind the next recommandations: it is
+the first alpha ISO to be released out of our build-system and as
+such, well... a factory barely releases its first prototype to have it
+considered other than a self-testing item. So, don't expect... yada
+yada.
+
+If people can't understand that, well, really, fine. At some point,
+we're not going to twist words because we can't assume to educate
+people about how a technical product building process works (and
+that's one of the goals of the project).
+
+So further than the name, it's the discourse accompanying the release
+that will matter at least as much, if not more, as the released
+product itself.
+
+So far, it looks like the regular updates, technical and
+non-technical, on the blog, have been wonderfully received. So it's a
+good sign to use this too.
+
+
+Romain
+