On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 02:03:20AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Paul W. Frields wrote:
I think Matthias meant that the Alpha is intended for a highly technical developer/tester audience, for whom screenshots aren't very compelling.
I thought so too earlier on but from interacting with users, it isn't quite true. Even for alpha or beta releases, a lot of people (and press) like screenshots. Screenshots and screencasts attract people throughout development cycle. Any major change in the interface like Plymouth in the earlier release and volume control in this release is definitely worth highlighting.
Also, instead of trying to put together all of the release notes at the end of the cycle, I am trying to do it more incrementally and do a better job each milestone. Except for a few notes about what a alpha or beta release means, it is worth taking it as seriously as the general release. I am now more or less done with the Fedora 11 Alpha release notes and pretty happy with it.
You did a good job of bubbling up important topics for the release notes, thanks for your work there!