Beta Announcement Ready?

[Karsten Wade]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:01:16PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> David Nalley wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Exactly. It is also more press worthy if you explain it in simple terms.
> Concentrate on answering the question of how is this useful?

We are working to reach a larger audience with the Beta and Previews.
We have to be careful that we don't alienate them.  This two-pronged
approach is valuable -- explain deep technical matters in a simple
enough way for the wider audience, then link to an appropriate beat page.

This is a way to make the beats more active and useful, as a place
developers can show off package work sooner and more in their control;
as more than just a dumping place for content that 'eventually' makes
it in to the release notes.  There is a natural opportunity from the
beat to link back to feature pages, which fill this similar purpose of
showing work sooner and more (pro)actively.

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