[gentoo-trustees] cd's are off to CP

[gentoo-trustees] cd's are off to CP

[Corey Shields]

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I just sent the master CD's to CafePress for our store..  They are Install and 
Package CDs for each of x86, amd64, ppc, and sparc64.  The cds will be 
offered on the store seperately.

Does anyone want to step up and work on a CD cover  (needs to be a standard 
square graphic, imagine the cd outer and inner circles inside of it)?  If 
not, I'll see what I can do over the weekend.

While we are on the CP topic, we are up to $166 in commissions on non-cd gear 
that we already have available.  We'll do some GWN/website announcements next 
week once the CDs are up and available.

As for future releases, I'm cc'ing releng leads on this but I'd like to get an 
idea of how we want to handle that.  I don't know that it is fair to get the 
iso's beforehand, and we definitely don't want to advertise any future dates 
and raise expectations.  If anything, when the time comes maybe edit the 
existing releases to say "2005.1 coming soon!"

So as it looks now, once a release is made we could burn and ship master cds 
on that same day, and depending on the shipping method (overnight?) have them 
on the store within ~48 hours.  A weekend or Friday release would extend this 
delay.  Again, I'm not asking for special treatment or favors here, but want 
to open up the floor for discussion/ideas on how to do this in the future.

Cheers,

-- 
Corey Shields
Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team and Devrel Team
Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees
http://www.gentoo.org/~cshields

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[gentoo-trustees] Re: cd's are off to CP

[Corey Shields]

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(sorry for the top post, I have only one comment and the rest of this probably 
didn't hit the trustees list due to membership restrictions)

Chris,

200-300 dpi, size doesn't really matter because we can scale it to fit the CD, 
as long as the placement of everything works in aspect with a CD.

Thanks!

-C

On Friday 10 June 2005 02:27 pm, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 13:34 -0700, Corey Shields wrote:
> > I just sent the master CD's to CafePress for our store..  They are
> > Install and Package CDs for each of x86, amd64, ppc, and sparc64.  The
> > cds will be offered on the store seperately.
>
> So you've sent off the Universal and Packages disk for each of those
> architectures, correct?
>
> > Does anyone want to step up and work on a CD cover  (needs to be a
> > standard square graphic, imagine the cd outer and inner circles inside of
> > it)?  If not, I'll see what I can do over the weekend.
>
> What size/resolution/dpi?
>
> > As for future releases, I'm cc'ing releng leads on this but I'd like to
> > get an idea of how we want to handle that.  I don't know that it is fair
> > to get the iso's beforehand, and we definitely don't want to advertise
> > any future dates and raise expectations.  If anything, when the time
> > comes maybe edit the existing releases to say "2005.1 coming soon!"
>
> Well, the SOP when Daniel was running the store was to get him the ISO
> images at about the same time as the images were hitting the mirrors,
> but before the actual release date.  Up until 2005.0, this wasn't a
> problem, as we were on schedule with the release date (and Daniel never
> knew what it was ahead of time).  The reason for the slight advance on
> the images was due to him needing time to start burning them to CD
> before shipping.  Generally, he would get the ISO images on a Friday,
> and we would release on that Monday (0000UTC).
>
> > So as it looks now, once a release is made we could burn and ship master
> > cds on that same day, and depending on the shipping method (overnight?)
> > have them on the store within ~48 hours.  A weekend or Friday release
> > would extend this delay.  Again, I'm not asking for special treatment or
> > favors here, but want to open up the floor for discussion/ideas on how to
> > do this in the future.
>
> We schedule releases to fall on 0000UTC on a Monday.  This makes things
> easier on us to coordinate with Infrastructure, PR, and the GWN folks.
> For those of us in the USA, this falls on Sunday evening.

-- 
Corey Shields
Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team and Devrel Team
Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees
http://www.gentoo.org/~cshields

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