Re: Beta Announcement Ready?

[David Nalley <david nalley fedoraproject org>]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:04 AM, John J. McDonough <wb8rcr arrl net> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul W. Frields" <stickster gmail com>
> To: <fedora-docs-list redhat com>
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 8:54 AM
> Subject: Re: Beta Announcement Ready?
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>> can someone revisit this page and, without making
>> the list too long, add just a smidge more info?
>
> I have to admit, I''ve been somehwat going the other way.  An awful lot of
> the features this release are technically interesting, but pretty much
> non-events for most users.  On the flip side, some of the development
> changes (and there are many) are really important to their particular
> audience.  This is perhaps more critical in the beta release notes, which
> have been getting similar gardening.


Typically our beta users, while on the whole not as technically savvy
as our alpha users, are pretty technical. I'd argue that those
"technically interesting" features are important to show off in beta,
perhaps even more so than final release.