Preparing for F11 Release Notes
ryan lerch
ryanlerch at gmail.com
Tue Feb 3 05:42:51 UTC 2009
This link was posted in response to a similar thread i started on
fedora-devel, and provides a good user "review" of the release
notes...
http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2008/12/read-same-paragraphs-every-half-year.html
cheers,
ryanlerch
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Basil Mohamed Gohar
<abu_hurayrah at hidayahonline.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 11:25 -0500, Eric Christensen wrote:
>> On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 00:15 +0800, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> So in addition to the facts we should throw in some sparkly objects that
>> make people NEED to come try it out. The world might end unless you try
>> out our new features!
>>
>> I agree. I've never read the GNOME or KDE release notes but I will now.
>> If we are missing something that could entice people to come on over
>> then we are missing out.
>
> I guess the main difference I recall are:
> * Mentioning of what makes $thisrelease better than $thisrelease--
> * A reasonably flat layout in one document. No more than 2 levels
> of hierarchy (easy to digest)
> * Anything that needs more details is linked elsewhere
> * The document itself looks pretty. If there is a compelling new
> style, then that theme is used (e.g., KDE). If the website has
> a nice interface, than that style is used (Gnome). I fear,
> currently, Fedora Project is lacking on both fronts, at least on
> the web side.
>
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