The Fedora Core release notes suck!

[William Hooper]

Elton Woo  said:
> On November 24, 2003 04:54 pm, Edward C. Bailey, "Edward C. Bailey"
> <ed at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Basically, what do you want the release notes to look like?
> If I may suggest, and  looking at the notes from the point of view of a
> new linux user, or migrant from the Microsoft Windows world.
>
> The page is too long. People lose interest or just plain too LAZY to
> read to the bottom. Hence, I would suggest breaking it up into
> LINKED sections, starting with

Problem being that people too lazy to read the release notes (and mailing
list archives) now will still be too lazy.  I don't see any point trying
to write docs to the "lowest common denominator" when they are just going
to have to be quoted on the list as an answer anyway.

Another point is that a lot of things mentioned seem to be pretty general
(not release specific).  If it is general info, why would it be in the
release notes.  Descriptions of the project, how to use apt, yum, up2date,
etc. don't belong in the release notes, unless something has changed with
this release (case in point, Yarrow's version of up2date supporting yum
and apt repositories).

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William Hooper