Alpha Announcement

[John J. McDonough]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul W. Frields" <stickster at gmail.com>
To: <fedora-docs-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: Alpha Announcement


> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 08:58:08AM -0400, Eric Christensen wrote:
>> I've taken the Alpha announcement from F10 and morphed it[1] for F12.
>> Please take a look at it and see what you can update.  This should be
>> completed by COB tomorrow (Friday).
>>
>> [1]
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Announcement_for_F12_Alpha_Release
>
> Keeping in mind that our previous Alpha releases ("Can we successfully
> compose it?") were somewhat different than the current Alpha ("Should
> be generally testable"), the content of this announcement may need to
> change somewhat.  Here's the F11 Beta announcement for comparison:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F11_Beta_Announcement
>
> Note the new Alpha is something more like previous Beta, and the new
> Beta coming next month is more like previous Preview Release.

I was thinking the same thing.  (Just getting caught up after broken email). 
It is probably worth mentioning something like we have always said rawhide 
is known to eat babies, with this new strategy we probably don't know 
whether alpha will be more or less voracious.

--McD