On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 08:28 +1000, ryan lerch wrote:
I think we really need to define what the scope of the Release Notes
is going to be. Will it be just new features, known issues and
important bugfixes?
or
will it be all that + a mini installation guide? take the "Live" [1]
section as an example. Live images are nothing new in f10.
also after going though the release notes over the last couple of
days, i feel that they could also do with an overhaul on how the
information is structured and consequently presented... A solid
structure of the release notes would also make it significantly easier
to maintain the wiki <---> docbook relationship.
I know that I have always read the release notes for Fedora ever since I
started using it regularly (FC5 I believe), but I have also been
following the release notes for Gnome and also KDE 4 when it came out.
And I have to say, maybe it's just me, but I was far more "wowed" and
"awed" by the Gnome & KDE release notes than the Fedora ones. I still
got what I wanted from the Fedora ones, but the Gnome & KDE ones really
gave me that desire to try them out.
Maybe we can take some lessons from them? Also, I think they tend to be
more of "release announcements" rather than "release notes", if such
a
distinction can be made. They tend not to include much information such
as known issues, unless buried deeper or linked away, which is something
I think we can go for or benefit from as well.
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Basil Mohamed Gohar
abu_hurayrah(a)hidayahonline.org
www.basilgohar.com