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Remy DeCausemaker
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From: "Justin W. Flory" <jflory7(a)gmail.com>
To: commops(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 2:58:33 PM
Subject: Re: [commops] working on f23 final release announcement
These are just my own thoughts, but I feel like if we want to really
find a good way to tell the real story of Fedora, I believe that
incorporating the motto into the release notes is a good idea of finding
that story, such as ways that Fedora, both as the distribution and the
community, have lived up to protecting Freedom, how Fedora has brought
Friends together by impacting either the overall Linux or even just
Fedora community, the exciting and innovating Features the new release
includes for users and developers, and how we are innovating First. The
motto is the first thing that stands out to me as how to best extract
the Exciting Story of Fedora 23 - although I know it would take the
collaboration of many others to pull something together in the 15 days
we have left before the release.
Drawing on the motto could be good ammo. In our 1x1 today, mattdm was lamenting the lack
of punability that was previously afforded by having release names, so having some other
device will be helpful :)
I'm not quite sure what exactly is envisioned for this release
note, but
if we're looking at deferring the technical notes to more detailed
sources and including a more "human" side to this release announcement,
I think we have material from the past six months all around that could
support all four foundations of the project.
I'm new here, so bear with me, but Fedora has been really been making the
"Friends" foundation a focus of the latest release, by improving our
infrastructure and community. I realize this is not necessarily the distro itself, but
there are a few activities that come to mind:
- We deployed Bodhi2 (5 years in the making, huge performance increases, fine-grained
karma, and more...)
- D&I - Advisor search ongoing, and we've approved funding to hire two Outreachy
interns, helping with Hubs/dev portal & Community Operations (CommOps)
- Fedora Hubs has already had a successful intern (mrichards) pave the way for future
interns and contributors.
- Fedora-bootstrap is our latest project wide CSS and website theme, providing cohesion
to our web properties.
- Fedmenu is a glimpse into the widgetized future that comes with embeddable widgets via
Fedora Hubs
-
http://whatcanidoforfedora.org is like the Fedora Sorting Hat :)
- Fedora Magazine has hit milestone readership and publications (actual numbers TBD)
- Others that I am not thinking of at the moment
I know this list above includes things that we have shipped along with things we have not
yet shipped, but we've made mentionable progress on a number of fronts. I dunno if
these 'Community' improvements are part of a release announcement or not, but they
are def worth mentioning somewhere (particularly the strides that have been made in
front-end, and in Rel-eng.)
Like Remy mentioned, time is of the essence, so I would think a
direction should be determined soon and then others in the community
should be contacted to pull together this story.
As per standard practice, I've ported the F23 Beta Announcement to a General Release
Announcement Wiki Page as a starter:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F23_release_announcement Let's start here, and keep
updating the wiki page with new info as we get it.
Is there a standard template for asking the WG's and Subprojects for their
bulletpoints? Do we even need to do that, or do we just take the beta notes, and then
fancy them up a bit at this point?
Thanks,
--RemyD.
Cheers,
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Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
On 10/13/2015 10:52 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 04:58:19PM -0400, Remy DeCausemaker wrote:
>> I, however, have never created a Final release announcement, and am
>> not entirely sure what all goes into officially making one, other
>> than this list of general tasks here:
>>
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-23/f-23-marketing-tasks.html
>
> In the past, it's been either a collaborative effort of marketing, and
> in other times, it's been the inspired pen of the FPL. See for example
> this:
>
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F17_release_announcement
>
> which, let's be honest, we will never top.
>
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