Why don't Ubuntu or it derivatives advertise the upcoming release of Wily Werewolf

[oshunluvr]

Me personally; I'm never all that excited about the next release. Always too many issues and updates in the first several weeks. I did install Wily to bare metal last week and it seems quicker, but I'll wait until November before I attempt to switch over.

[Qqmike]

I think we oughta keep Kubuntu a secret ...

[claydoh]

No, I never thought about it, not in a while.

I used to do the release announcements for each release, as well as for the alphas and betas, etc

Outside of LTS, why party up an interim release every 6 months?

I literally could have used the same exact blurb each time, and just adjust the KDE version, the Libreoffice version blah blah, unless there was something unique to Kubuntu. The pre-release announcements used to get much more attention in the so-called linux media, which I think helped. Heck, there would be a number of full on reviews of each one of the dev releases.. I don't know which is the chicken or the egg, but perhaps the world had become jaded top all the hype, or has the lack of promotion lessened the desire to cover it as much as it used to?

Another thought, specific to Kubuntu
We hype up 15.04
15.04 is, for many people ......crap. We have hyped something that really isn't meant for everyone (and it was a mistake to not significantly note this in any of our announcements), and many users install it because of the hype

15.10 will be much less crap, but there still will be moaning and groaning about it being something that should not have been put out, where the heck is my KDE 4, I want it back! Why promote this so much, just yet?

16.04 would be the one to hype, for us.


Just my thoughts, not explanations or reasons.

[finny388]

I've never understood this. Why is there no "coming soon" hype on the front page of ubuntu.com, kubuntu.org or xubuntu.org etc?

Wily comes out in 7 days. Isn't it natural to get people excited, talk about the new features, etc?

Anyone have thoughts on why this is?