[commops] working on f23 final release announcement

Wed Oct 14 17:13:36 UTC 2015

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Remy DeCausemaker 
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Fedora Community Lead & Council Member
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Miller" <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
> To: "Fedora + Community + Operations = Fedora CommOps" <commops at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Cc: "Fedora Marketing team" <marketing at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 12:33:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [commops] working on f23 final release announcement
> 
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 05:22:47PM -0400, Remy DeCausemaker wrote:
> > I'm new here, so bear with me, but Fedora has been really been making
> > the "Friends" foundation a focus of the latest release, by improving
> > our infrastructure and community. I realize this is not necessarily
> > the distro itself, but there are a few activities that come to mind:
> > 
> >  - We deployed Bodhi2 (5 years in the making, huge performance increases,
> >  fine-grained karma, and more...)
> >  - D&I - Advisor search ongoing, and we've approved funding to hire two
> >  Outreachy interns, helping with Hubs/dev portal & Community Operations
> >  (CommOps)
> >  - Fedora Hubs has already had a successful intern (mrichards) pave the way
> >  for future interns and contributors.
> >  - Fedora-bootstrap is our latest project wide CSS and website theme,
> >  providing cohesion to our web properties.
> >  - Fedmenu is a glimpse into the widgetized future that comes with
> >  embeddable widgets via Fedora Hubs
> >  - http://whatcanidoforfedora.org is like the Fedora Sorting Hat :)
> >  - Fedora Magazine has hit milestone readership and publications (actual
> >  numbers TBD)
> >  - Others that I am not thinking of at the moment
> > 
> > I know this list above includes things that we have shipped along
> > with things we have not yet shipped, but we've made mentionable
> > progress on a number of fronts. I dunno if these 'Community'
> > improvements are part of a release announcement or not, but they are
> > def worth mentioning somewhere (particularly the strides that have
> > been made in front-end, and in Rel-eng.)
> 
> Nice angle — I really like this. I had suggested (or, maybe I glommed
> onto someone else's suggestion beacause I like the idea — I forget —
> anyway, it was suggested) that Fedora development might benefit from a
> "tick-tock" cycle, with one release focusing on process improvements,
> and the next release focusing on OS features. People weren't, overall,
> comfortable with putting Fedora into that model, I think mostly because
> feature changes sometimes come faster than that, but also irregularly.
> In any case, though I think this is clearly a "tick" release, with more
> process and infrastructure improvements than big change within the
> actual distribution.
> 
> On a similar note, at FUDCon Lawrence a few years ago, Tim Burke
> suggested a "red/yellow/green" model for labeling how much scary change
> a release contains. (As an alternative to having major/minor releases.)
> I'm not a big fan of that, because I think we're mostly at the point
> where even our scary releases are actually very solid and are "green"
> in the absolute sense. But from that point of view, this is a "green"
> release too. With our current marketing / press  model, which relies on
> splashy changes to generate talking points, this ironically means the
> releases we'd like _most_ to get into the hands of users get less
> attention.
> 
> So anyway, that's a long way of saying that, yeah, I like the general
> idea. I'm not sure a list of technical infrastructure improvements will
> play any better with the press than a list of software version bumps,
> though. Open to ideas. :)

I'm also open to ideas. I think that getting a solid list of improvements and performance enhancements from Fedora-infra about Bodhi2 would a great section to include in the notes. It's kinda meta, but still such an epic set of improvements from a 5 year undertaking.

I'll reach out to the Infra team and try to get some stats/metrics/facts/bullet points.

Same for some bullet points on the Fedora-boostrap redesign too. We're making a common look/feel, and it is helping to provide some cohesion in our web properties.

I'll also reach out to the Magazine folks, and see if I can get some quick bulletpoints/stats for readers/articles published.

> 
> 
> 
> > Is there a standard template for asking the WG's and Subprojects for
> > their bulletpoints? Do we even need to do that, or do we just take
> > the beta notes, and then fancy them up a bit at this point?
> 
> Beta notes make a good starting point, but I'd say fancy them up _a
> lot_. :)
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In a previous post, mattdm asked if this should be going to both mktg + commops lists. I reckon, until commops list reaches critical mass, I think keeping traffic on both lists for now is a good idea.