Fedora 11 Release Notes Update

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 13:08:51 UTC 2009


On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:12:45AM +0100, Tim Niemueller wrote:
> ryan lerch schrieb:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have finished creating a mockup of the fedora 11 release notes [1]
> 
> Design looks good, but...
> 
> - Credit is good, but having the first HTML page only authors is a bit
> much, then the legal notice and an abstract which tells you nothing that
> you wouldn't know from the title...
> - I'm missing a section that gives the really important stuff at a
> glance. I'm often inclined to use external sources (journals, websites)
> on a release to see the most important (and visible) new stuff.
> 
> In short I'd like the first page to be a very rough overview of the
> top-five or so new features and most noticeable changes (before any TOC,
> abstract, legal notice), short, precise, and to the point.

There's a release summary that's usually prepared on the wiki for this
purpose.

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