Release notes

[Rahul Sundaram]

Eric Wood wrote:

> FYI,
>
> What's interesting is that the release notes is a "living document" 
> which is controlled over at 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject.  Each section (called a 
> beat) of the release notes is written by a different person (called a 
> beat writer).  You can file even file bugzilla/suggestion reports 
> against particular parts of the release notes and other guides.
>
> In the future, the release notes will be automatically generated 
> (concatenated) from all the different beats and put in to distribution.
>
> The wiki granularity is pretty awesome - little 'ol me was able to 
> file a suggestion to the release notes:
>
> You can see all of the  release note requests for Fedora Core 5. 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=168083

One of the advantages is that you can register in the wiki and modify 
such content yourself and participate in enhancing the release notes 
actively which goes beyond filing bug reports.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/WikiEditing

The idea behind using the wiki as one of the sources of content is to 
lower the barrier for potential contributions compared to using CVS and 
docbook xml markup. While the beat writing process itself has worked out 
relatively well and you should be able to see the results in the 
upcoming test releases the idea of random quick contributions hasnt 
really paned out much. Whoever is considering file bug reports or 
suggesting enhancements might consider registering and contributing 
content directly instead.

Another related item is that we have a rawhide equivalent of docs now 
available at  http://webtest.fedora.redhat.com/docs/