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Remy DeCausemaker
<decause(a)redhat.com>
Fedora Community Lead & Council Member
http://whatcanidoforfedora.org
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Miller" <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
> To: "Fedora + Community + Operations = Fedora CommOps"
<commops(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Cc: "Fedora Marketing team" <marketing(a)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.
I don't think we want to conflate the audience that wants to know how
much better the sausage tastes, with the people that care about
improvements to the sausage making equipment.
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Paul W. Frields