On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 08:28 +1000, ryan lerch wrote:
I think we really need to define what the scope of the Release Notes is going to be. Will it be just new features, known issues and important bugfixes?
or
will it be all that + a mini installation guide? take the "Live" [1] section as an example. Live images are nothing new in f10.
also after going though the release notes over the last couple of days, i feel that they could also do with an overhaul on how the information is structured and consequently presented... A solid structure of the release notes would also make it significantly easier to maintain the wiki <---> docbook relationship.
I know that I have always read the release notes for Fedora ever since I started using it regularly (FC5 I believe), but I have also been following the release notes for Gnome and also KDE 4 when it came out. 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.
Maybe we can take some lessons from them? Also, I think they tend to be more of "release announcements" rather than "release notes", if such a distinction can be made. They tend not to include much information such as known issues, unless buried deeper or linked away, which is something I think we can go for or benefit from as well.
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