On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 12:30 -0800, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

Hi

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Oops, I misspoke here. John is not doing Fedora release notes. FC relnotes are entirely a community affair at this point.

I am not sure how you call release notes written by internal developers themselves a community affair

Actually, I think the FDP should be accountable for the release notes, and developers responsible for populating them with facts. This is just my idea.

Regardless, the first community I am referring to is this one, the docs project, and then the developers. With a Wiki, anyone can contribute. If someone who is not a Red Hat developer has a fact for the Wiki, that person should edit and include.

Rest of your comment doesn't have anything to do with me. I'm currently stymied by the internal/external barriers, albeit in different ways than someone without CVS access. ;-D

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Is there anyone interested in working on the relnotes? You get extra exposure to developers, if you don't have enough already :), learn lots of interesting and esoteric stuff, and often more know about a given test, rc, or release than you thought possible.

I am. I would prefer to work on it as a team. So It would be nice to have a few more interested volunteers to work with me on this

So far we have you, Stuart, and myself. A few more would be a good idea. We can all watch the page and coordinate via IRC, or just fix it and hope we don't step on each other's toes.

Keeping voice/style consistent is going to be a challenge, which I will lay on my feet for starting this. Perhaps we'll get more points for our style guide out of this.

IIRC, we are using the GNOME style guide as a basis to work from. For language style, Elements of Style is our basis.

My first proposal, therefore, is that

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we use the Wiki to create a release notes page for every test, rc, and release, and browbeat developers into contributing.

Oh. I am pretty good at nagging people on technical stuff :-)

I've asked Elliot Lee to make the initial request on fedora-maintainers and wherever else he feels its needed.

So, we have a day or so to fix the scheme I put together, which uses one massive page.

FWIW, I'd prefer to tweak the scheme for the test2 notes, such as considering Stuart's suggestion of separate pages. This might be difficult because of the way the Wiki namespace is constructed. Let's discuss. :)

- Karsten