string freeze policy and release notes

Thu May 14 01:03:48 UTC 2015

I have been pleased with the Fedora wiki and the ability to correct documentation that is in error.  
Perhaps its time to look at the fedora wiki style of document maintenance. I see that it works for the wiki, it could very well work for the docs project.  It works so well that it should serve for a new paradigm. Put the F22 docs on the wiki and allow authorized FAS user to perform updates. The approvals would still come from Petes group.  

For Fedora 23, do put all the documents on a documents wiki. 

The users and developers can do justice to what is provided in the form of updates. FAS members can correct or add to the docs. Of course, updates still have to be vetted, but at least, no docbook or publican, which is a chore alone. The release notes and other docs are out of date. For F22, Yum is king. etc. dnf is not even a prince. 

 Regards 
 Leslie
 Mr. Leslie Satenstein
Montréal Québec, Canada

      From: Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
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 Subject: string freeze policy and release notes

Okay, so, someone asked me about the freeze and how that relates to
release notes.

I found

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_notes_process#The_Process

which seems basically sane. But I also found

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N_Freezes#What_changes_are_affected_by_the_string_freeze.3F

which states explicitly that it convers release notes, and gives an
exception policy here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Software_String_Freeze_Policy

which also doesn't sound completely off base, except that the string
freeze is nominally at the same time as the *alpha* freeze, which seems
significantly early (halfway through the six month release cycle) for
meaningful release notes.

What's the deal here — is some of this out of date and due for a
revision?

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