On Wednesday 02 May 2007 01:21, Paul W. Frields wrote:
We have a neat Making Fedora Discs guide, but it needs some extra
love
before the release. When I started worrying about how to update this
document so late, and yet have it make the release, I realized I was
thinking about it all wrong:
1. Including the document in the fedora-release-notes is relatively
worthless; once you have a system installed, you've either burned the
discs already, or didn't need to.
2. Putting the files on the ISO images is similarly worthless.
I was thinking the following idea is much more logical:
1. Torrents and mirrors should carry a single tiny ASCII file,
README-Making-Discs, which will be a one-sentence link to
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/readme-burning-isos/ -- that URL carries
the full document in all its newfound glory.
2. Revising the existing R-B-I document is not a big job and will only
take about an hour -- but it will produce a lot of fuzzy strings for
translators. However, they'll have several weeks to fix the PO files,
because the real document can be published on the fly, as late as the
day before the release (and errata issued just like any other doc).
Comments?
Is this by any chance the document I started 15 months ago? The one I wrote
with the intention of it being included in the ISO download folders for FC5?
I followed the link provided above, and it's changed a lot but parts of it
still look vaguely familiar.
No matter, it's taking a while, but so long as it gets there in the end I'm
happy to have contributed and made a small difference to the good.
Dave Fletcher
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