Dave,
Chill! I'm not blaming you for any of the problems. We were disorganized,
that's all. This was the *first* real press-splash release we've done, and
chaos is a consequence of that.
> Huh? We can upload them, test them, get them round the mirrors etc.
> weeks in advance, and then just advertise/create the links at the last
> minute.
Oh. Well, I was listening to Marc and Robert who I thought said we couldn't.
Also, there were some delays on the translation side, as I kept getting
corrections up until Thursday last week. That can hopefully be fixed with
firmer deadlines in the future ...
> Next time, once the files are submitted to the web team, we must ensure
> that *all* changes are made direct to the CVS. Barring emergencies, I'm
> the only person that should be editting anything in the live webspace as
> I'm the only one that can commit changes from there back to CVS.
It certianly seemed like an emergency at the time. I had 50 e-mails in my
inbox about messed-up encodings, and you were asleep, Robert was
out-of-touch, and Devrim didn't know anything.
Now I know a lot more about how the website works ... and hopefully we'll have
a new infrastructure by 7.5/8.0.
--
-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco