F11 Alpha Release Notes one-sheet

[Karsten Wade]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 02:54:26PM -0500, John J. McDonough wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul W. Frields" 
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> Subject: Re: F11 Alpha Release Notes one-sheet
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>> I'd hope we're not summarizing 100+ changed packages on any beat,
>> right?  That would seem like overkill to me.
>
> I hope not.  However, the Amateur Radio beat, for example, has 35  
> changed/new packages.  Some of the changes are minor, but quite a few are 
> totally new packages, some very interesting, and a large number of the  
> changes are very significant, at least to folks who use those packages.

I was thinking of that as a bar -- ideally the beat writer knows the
audience well enough to adjust content.

So, for the average desktop user and related beat, we don't want to
see all the GNOME/KDE package churn.

But for something technical and more niche such as amateur radio (or
even developers), the bar should be different.

> On changes, though, I'm a little torn.  A long list of changes is pretty  
> unexciting to read through, but if you are the person affected by that  
> change, it could be critical.  As a minimum you need a heads-up on the  
> change and a link to the upstream's release notes, if such a thing 
> exists. Unfortunately, it seems like in a lot of cases the upstream 
> release notes are nonexistent or very weak, and it takes some detective 
> work to sort out what changed.  I feel bad about leaving that to the 
> reader, but I don't want to end up with an encyclopedia, either.
>
> So we play the balancing act.

Agreed, we cannot be in the game of doing upstream research; the real
goal is to identify the Fedora intersection.  Your style certainly
gives enough information for people to work from; the niche audience
knows how to find more information when they care to.

- Karsten
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Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
http://quaid.fedorapeople.org
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