690661 - Release Notes for Camino 2.1

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #521614 +++

Need to have these ready before we can RC.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Attachment: Awful draft relnotes

I hate these release notes.  With a passion.  I'd like to take them out back behind the bikeshed and shoot them.  Dead.

Sadly, out of all the work we did for Camino 2.1, we have only 1 or 2 really user-friendly relnotable things, so to be able to have release notes that aren't completely empty, it was necessary to stretch some things to fit into the model.

So they're really ugly, but basically collapsing the things we highlighted for a1, b1, and b2.  Even after sitting on them for over a week, I haven't had any better ideas, so best go ahead and throw open the door and let others into the messy room.

Comment 2

[Stuart Morgan]

I'd axe the "chrome and component registration" section as being to technical, and move "Web content support" to the top since it's the biggest feature. And maybe even call out improved web compatibility in the text paragraph (maybe s/and thus shares/improving web compatibility, and sharing/)

I'd also remove the plugin placeholders as not being a particularly major change. Also the cert error one, and then fold the remaning item there into the plug-in section.

s/arbitrary plug-ins/specific plug-ins/

s/install Java/use Java/ (since a significant number of people already have Java Plug-in 2)

Do we always have the "The features list below are just some of the many..." line? Seems redundant with the intro to Features in Camino 2.1.


I'd rather have shorter notes than list things that don't sound significant. I don't think we need to try to prove anything here; we know 2.1 is incremental (thus the version), but we also know it's a good update for everyone.

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Attachment: Better relnotes

With sr comments addressed and changes per irc.

http://wiki.caminobrowser.org/index.php?title=Releases%3A2.1%3ANotes&action=historysubmit&diff=11930&oldid=11926 for the wiki-diff (although it shows more movement than there really was), or consult FileMerge.

Comment 4

[Stuart Morgan]

Comment on attachment 567356 [details]
Better relnotes

sr=smorgan

Comment 5

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

http://hg.mozilla.org/camino/rev/2eea74a6068e