Okay, had to redo the changes since the save didn't go through as my laptop bombed. For review: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F8Test3/ReleaseAnnouncement

I never heard back from the release engineering folks and I looked through various developer lists but was unable to find anything that tracked major changes, there are a ton of minor changes to packages but as far as anything major changing...There a specific place that tracks this sort of thing...

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 19:20 -0400, Jason Taylor wrote: > I never heard back from the release engineering folks and I looked > through various developer lists but was unable to find anything that > tracked major changes, there are a ton of minor changes to packages > but as far as anything major changing...There a specific place that > tracks this sort of thing... If possible, Jason, try and post your replies at the bottom of a thread, to make it easier to read the discussion as it goes along. I would like to make one suggestion -- let's not start the announcement with a list of bugs. Not necessarily putting our best foot forward! The test2 release announcement is here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-September/msg00... I think that is more along the lines of what release engineers are looking for. It might make more sense to direct people to the http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F8Common page and track these bugs there, so anything not fixed by F8 GA will already be in place on that page. That's the same namespacing we have used in previous releases. Also, note we have this page for use in the final Fedora 8 release announcement: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/ReleaseAnnouncements It needs to be updated from F7 to F8. Are you (or is anyone) interested in taking charge of this page, updating the schedule for F8, mailing other lists as appropriate to notify them of content, and generally tracking the tasks listed on that page?

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 03:53 -0400, Jason Taylor wrote: > > > On 10/2/07, Paul W. Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 19:20 -0400, Jason Taylor wrote: > > I never heard back from the release engineering folks and I > looked > > through various developer lists but was unable to find > anything that > > tracked major changes, there are a ton of minor changes to > packages > > but as far as anything major changing...There a specific > place that > > tracks this sort of thing... > > If possible, Jason, try and post your replies at the bottom of > a thread, > to make it easier to read the discussion as it goes along. > > I would like to make one suggestion -- let's not start the > announcement > with a list of bugs. Not necessarily putting our best foot > forward! > The test2 release announcement is here: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-September/msg00... > > I think that is more along the lines of what release engineers > are > looking for. It might make more sense to direct people to the > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F8Common page and track > these bugs > there, so anything not fixed by F8 GA will already be in place > on that > page. That's the same namespacing we have used in previous > releases. > > Also, note we have this page for use in the final Fedora 8 > release > announcement: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/ReleaseAnnouncements > > It needs to be updated from F7 to F8. Are you (or is anyone) > interested > in taking charge of this page, updating the schedule for F8, > mailing > other lists as appropriate to notify them of content, and > generally > tracking the tasks listed on that page? > > The idea was once I had the list of new packages and/or changes > compiled that would go at the top of the list. I could possibly take > care of the ReleaseAnnouncements page, what kind of time frame? Super! As for the time frame for ReleaseAnnouncements -- according to the page itself, the talking points for F7 were ready about 8 days before the release date, so that should give you some idea. Does that sound doable to you? And I apologize in advance for being a netiquette nazi, but if you could post in plain ASCII text, it would help the many subscribers we have who aren't using GUI mail readers. If you're using the Gmail interface to read and send mail, you'll find there's a "Plain text" button above the editor which should allow you to send messages in the proper format. You can toggle this back and forth for other uses, of course. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list

I see that there are a lot of changes to the release announcement, which looks great. Rahul, if you're going to include any of this material in the OverView beat, it would be good to get those changes in now so translators have plenty of time to work on it. We are trying to minimize the number of new strings being sent to them at the last minute before F8 GA. Thanks for helping with this.