F9 Feature Process

[Rahul Sundaram]

John Poelstra wrote:

> To someone not familiar with Fedora wouldn't they expect 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/FeatureList and 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/ReleaseSummary to contain the 
> same information or for there to only be one page? The ReleaseSummary 
> page is really good by the way!

Feature list is more developer oriented. Release Summary is a subset of 
the feature list highlighting major features and "themes". If there are 
for example 3 user interface related features, 4 security related ones 
and 2 performance related ones, we want to highlight them together in 
the release summary.  The actual release announcement is sort of like a 
easter language and is not easily translatable and we needed an 
alternative that was closer to a press release. It is in fact the press 
release writing attempt that was combined with the release notes 
overview and morphed into the release summary for Fedora Core 5 and 
since it turned out be fairly successful (a lot of users and reviews 
referenced that), we continue doing it.

Rahul