Maybe I can help out here, especially
since I was responsible for putting out the press release today. First
let me assure you, you are not in a time warp. The date for availability
is still June 30th and today is June 26th. J
The timing of the press release was done
to maximize the press coverage of Callisto. Typically, you try to issue
press releases early in the week because that is when the editors are putting
together their print editions and when most of the on-line stories are published.
I tried to be careful with the wording to balance the fact that the
release date is not until Friday.
On Friday we do plan to put a news item on
the home page indicating that Callisto is now available for download.
Ian
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[cross-project-issues-dev] are we doing the "Callisto Time Warp"?
Anyone else notice the top item in the Eclipse News section
of the main Eclipse.org web page?
“ECLIPSE COMMUNITY DELIVERS ON SCHEDULE…”
“The Eclipse Foundation today announced the release of
10 Eclipse open source projects.”
At least there’s not a *link* to the download yet, but… isn’t this jumping
the gun a bit? The countdown timer still correctly shows the “In 4
Days” proclamation of a *future*
release.
This makes me a bit nervous… someone tells me this is the
correct way to advertise (in advance) Callisto if I’m being overly
cautious!
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RDS