Fedora 7 Test 1 and release notes

[John Babich]

Fedora Docs Team:

That was a great IRC session today.

IMHO, the Fedora 7 Test 1 Release Notes turned out great.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F7Test1/ReleaseNotes

All we need to do is announce it to the world.

John Babich
Volunteer, Fedora Docs Project

On 2/9/07, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 08:05 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 10:07 +0300, John Babich wrote:
> > > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/7/Test1TreeTesting
> >
> > Looks good, let it roll.
> >
> > > 1. Agree that this is ready for publishing on the wiki.
> >
> > In a new namespace?  wiki/Docs/ReleaseNotes/F7/test1/?
> >
> > Maybe a simply reusable space ...
> >
> > Docs/ReleaseNotes has links to old release notes and either i) the
> > current notes or ii) the current test splash?
> >
> > > 2. Move it to its final location on the wiki.
> > >
> > > 3. Advertise that these are the release notes for Fedora 7 Test 1.
> >
> > Sure, an announcement to fedora-announce would probably do at this
> > point, make the effort worth it.
> >
> > > Think of this as an experiment on how to provide *test* release notes.
> >
> > The idea being, for test1 and test2, we do *not* include a Wiki -> XML
> > -> HTML push for the first two tests?
> >
> > It would be good if we had something to include.  Maybe an admonition or
> > link from the splash/index.html?  Not sure if that or a symlink violates
> > Paul's "one less tweak to worry about for final spin."
>
> Putting a "placeholder" in the release-notes module is the right way to
> go.  The link already exists in the splash page; no need to change it.
> The web site could be updated as needed, since we would obviously be
> revisiting it anyway to post the test3/final versions.  I just don't
> want to change the splash page, or other READMEs that we wouldn't
> otherwise be touching, since every time we add more indirect update
> points, it's yet another thing that can be wrong at release time.  We
> basically have three points for Release Notes ingress:
>
> 1. /usr/share/doc/HTML/RELEASE-NOTES-*.html  (provided by release-notes/
> in CVS)
> 2. http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/  (indirectly provided by
> same)
> 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/ReleaseNotes/  (canonical)
>
> So we're looking at putting in filler in CVS that takes care of (1) and
> (2), and a quick note on (3) which is easy to remove for a "real"
> publication push.  Did I miss something?  Do we know all the entry
> points people currently have for Release Notes?  If not, should we?
>
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