This Weekend

[Rahul Sundaram]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 06:31:22PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Max Spevack wrote:
>>
>>> Given all of the context now available in this thread, Rahul, do you:
>>>
>>> a) feel like we were clear enough about doing this in public?  (For the
>>> record, I believe that we were very clear about it in the context of the
>>> marketing meetings, but if you hadn't heard about it until Jack's email,
>>> then something fell through the cracks.)
>> Not your fault. I just haven't been attending the marketing meetings or
>> reading through the logs much.
>>> b) feel like there is anything either wrong, or missing, from the list?
>> Not sure which ones to highlight more but I can go with the following
>> broader themes and categorize the features including but not limited to
>> the key things in the feature list.
> [...snip...]
> 
> This is an exhaustive list, which kind of defeats the point of
> "highlights."  However, you are completely correct that these are all
> very worthy features.  We had to choose a small list on which to
> concentrate, which is the only rational strategy since we're covering
> them with limited resources.
> 
> Part of the reason we choose highlights and build stories around them,
> rather than trying to do this with every single feature, is that Red
> Hat Marketing lends substantial support to our campaign around each
> release.  They also have finite resources with which to do this work
> and have asked me repeatedly for the past few releases to center in on
> a handful of features that have immediate broad appeal or compelling
> stories we can build around them.

Yes, I understand that which is why I provided both a categorization of
features that I think will make it easier for a audience to gain a broad
overview but also specifically listed highlights at the end which I
think deserves more press.

Rahul