[Portland] Consistent messaging

[Bastian, Waldo]

The thinking is to have a somewhat formal "preview release" by the end
of the month and use that as a talking point to ask for targeted
feedback. If there are specific things about requirements that you would
like to see clearified please make a note to that effect in the
freedesktop.org wiki.

Waldo Bastian
Linux Client Architect - Channel Platform Solutions Group
Intel Corporation - http://www.intel.com/go/linux
OSDL DTL Tech Board Chairman

>-----Original Message-----
>From: portland-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:portland-
>bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Krammer
>Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 1:59 PM
>To: portland at lists.freedesktop.org
>Subject: Re: [Portland] Consistent messaging
>
>On Thursday 09 March 2006 18:22, John Cherry wrote:
>> I have talked about this with some of you, but I am about to release
an
>> article that introduces the Portland Project to the general public
>> (actually to the IT community through LinuxWorld Magazine).  We want
to
>> be careful to set reasonable expectations and to avoid architectural
>> detail, but at the same time, readers (including perspective ISVs)
need
>> to know what it IS.  Please check out the following text and .png.
>
>Very good idea.
>Last week, when I posted about the current efforts to the OSDL
>Desktop_architects list, even active observers like Jeremy White seemed
to
>have missed that the Portland mailinglist existed, let alone the
projects
>discussed there.
>
>> The Portland Project is working in concert with the Linux Standards
Base
>> (LSB) to document and standardize the application programming
>> interfaces.
>
>Is this an official goal of the Portland "task force" or an
extrapolation
>of
>the work we are currently doing?
>
>> Is the Portland Project real? When will application vendors get to
start
>> using these interfaces? The infrastructure will emerge first
>> (implementation of the components in the model above). The
development
>> team is experimenting with prototypes now. Some courageous
application
>> vendors are testing these prototypes.
>
>If possible I'd like to ask for something like a request for comment,
i.e.
>the
>developers working on this APIs and tools are free desktop developers,
we
>know what we have available, but we do not necessarily know what ISVs
need.
>
>It has be said before that some of the task listed on the Portland wiki
are
>not very detailed, thus leaving us with just assumptions to work with.
>
>Unless Lubos or Norbert have received feedback in private mails, there
is
>currently a void to fill.
>
>Cheers,
>Kevin
>
>--
>Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
>Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
>Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org