Release Announcement

[Jason Taylor]

On 10/2/07, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 19:20 -0400, Jason Taylor wrote:
> > I never heard back from the release engineering folks and I looked
> > through various developer lists but was unable to find anything that
> > tracked major changes, there are a ton of minor changes to packages
> > but as far as anything major changing...There a specific place that
> > tracks this sort of thing...
>
> If possible, Jason, try and post your replies at the bottom of a thread,
> to make it easier to read the discussion as it goes along.
>
> I would like to make one suggestion -- let's not start the announcement
> with a list of bugs.  Not necessarily putting our best foot forward!
> The test2 release announcement is here:
>
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-September/msg00002.html
>
> I think that is more along the lines of what release engineers are
> looking for.  It might make more sense to direct people to the
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F8Common page and track these bugs
> there, so anything not fixed by F8 GA will already be in place on that
> page.  That's the same namespacing we have used in previous releases.
>
> Also, note we have this page for use in the final Fedora 8 release
> announcement:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/ReleaseAnnouncements
>
> It needs to be updated from F7 to F8.  Are you (or is anyone) interested
> in taking charge of this page, updating the schedule for F8, mailing
> other lists as appropriate to notify them of content, and generally
> tracking the tasks listed on that page?


The idea was once I had the list of new packages and/or changes compiled
that would go at the top of the list. I could possibly take care of the
ReleaseAnnouncements page, what kind of time frame?

-Jason
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