Re: F11 Alpha Release Notes one-sheet
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From: "Paul W. Frields" <stickster(a)gmail.com>
To: <fedora-docs-list(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: F11 Alpha Release Notes one-sheet
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 forsee over 70 changes in Devtools. Many require action on the part of
the user so really need to be there. In that case, though, I think I can do
a lot of breaking up into smaller groups. Actually, I kind of did that on
the AR apps, too. But after I see what they all look like i will certainly
do some winowing or perhaps grouping.
Last time we had big bunches of app descriptions. That was just an error.
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.
--McD