Fedora 9 Alpha Release Marketing Plan WAS Re: Fedora 9 Marketing plan?
Kerrin Catallozzi
kcatallo at redhat.com
Tue Feb 5 19:05:36 UTC 2008
The blog is posted now, under the Fedora Team name:
http://www.press.redhat.com/2008/02/05/help-shape-fedora-9-alpha-release-now-available/.
Thanks for all the input.
Kerri
Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> Thanks everyone for pulling this together.
>
> Did Kerri say we have a "Fedora Team" author to choose from? Or should
> we have a Marketing Project members do the posting? I think a few of us
> have accounts to post to press.redhat.com.
>
> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 09:49 -0500, Kerrin Catallozzi wrote:
>
>
>> Here's the latest version with all of the suggestions incorporated.
>> Would be great to have any final input by about 12pm ET so that we can
>> get this posted today.
>>
>
> I've put changes below the line changed with appropriate pointers.
>
>
>> -------------------
>> Help Shape Fedora 9: Alpha Release Now Available
>> by Fedora Team
>>
>> As Fedora (http://www.fedoraproject.org) contributors, one of the most
>> exciting parts of the development process of new Fedora distributions is
>> determining which cool, new features will be included in the next
>>
> ... features are included ...
>
>> release. Fedora 9 is due out at the end of April 2008, and we started
>>
> Fedora 9 (Sulphur) is due out ...
>
>> making plans for it as soon as we released Fedora 8 back in November.
>> We've already begun to implement the changes and features we want
>>
> We've been implementing the changes ...
>
>> included in this release, and with the Fedora 9 Alpha release today,
>> it's time for the whole community's input.
>>
> ... input. Obtain your Alpha live
> spin at http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease.
>
>
>> During each Fedora cycle, there is an Alpha release, a Beta release and
>>
> release, and
>
>> a series of weekly snapshot releases.
>> (http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-9/f-9-releng-tasks.html)
>>
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Schedule)
>
>> The Alpha release gives everyone the opportunity to provide feedback on
>> the work that has been done so far as the first step in the testing
>> cycle. It's the first time that the larger Fedora community can get
>> really involved in testing out the new features and is encouraged to
>> provide input on what's working, and what's not. It's easy to gain
>> access to the Alpha release because you don't have to install any
>> software -- everything you need is provided through live CDs. Then, to
>> give us feedback, you can file bug reports and enhancement requests and
>> make other recommendations.
>>
>> If you want to help us test and shape the next release of Fedora, you
>> can find details about the new features we're exploring, about how to
>> get involved in the Alpha release and about how to provide feedback and
>>
> release, and
>
>> get involved in the process by visiting our Fedora 9 Alpha release
>>
> involved with Fedora by visiting
>
>> notes. (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Alpha/ReleaseNotes)
>>
>
>
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