Fedora 9 Alpha Release Marketing Plan WAS Re: Fedora 9 Marketing plan?

John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com
Tue Feb 5 01:23:02 UTC 2008


Kerrin Catallozzi said the following on 02/04/2008 02:58 PM Pacific Time:
> Jonathan Roberts wrote:
>>> This would be a great oppty for a blog posting on www.press.redhat.com,
>>> Red Hat's corporate communications blog.  We've posted a number of
>>> "Fedora Team" blogs in the past that Max has helped us put together:
>>> http://www.press.redhat.com/category/fedora/.  We use this site to give
>>> our press contacts more information about what's going on within Red Hat
>>> when a press release isn't the right medium of communication.  I can put
>>> together a draft of the blog from the Alpha release notes link you've
>>> sent, and will then send around for feedback/edits.  We can post it this
>>> week once we've finalized the content.  What do you think?
>>>     
>>
>> Yeah that sounds awesome and would be much appreciated :)
>>
>> Looking forward to seeing it...
>>
>> Jon
>>   
> Here is a quick first draft of the blog. Anyone is welcome to add in 
> edits or more details.
> ---------------------------------
> Help Shape Fedora 9: Alpha Release Now Available
> by Fedora Team
> 
> As Fedora (http://www.fedoraproject.org) contributors, the most exciting 
> part of the development process of new Fedora distributions is 
> determining which cool, new features will be included in the next 
> release. Fedora 9 is due out at the end of April 2008, and we started 
> making plans for it as soon as we released Fedora 8 back in November. 
> We’ve already begun to examine which changes and features we want 
> included in this release, and with the Fedora 9 Alpha release today, 
> it’s time for the whole community’s input.
> 
> During each Fedora cycle, we have an Alpha release that gives everyone 

This is a great start.  Note, however, that the "Alpha release" is only 
the beginning of the testing cycle which has a primary focus of making 
sure the distro installs and runs.

There will also be a beta release and a series of weekly snapshot 
releases.  More information can be found on the release engineering 
schedule: 
http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-9/f-9-releng-tasks.html




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