Fedora Alpha release notes - Help required

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi,

As usual. we need a single page release notes for Fedora 11 Alpha.
Edit the following page and fill in the notes for major new features, 
known bugs and things that need more explicit testing.

https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Fedora_11_Alpha_release_notes...

Add link to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList and 
release schedule.

[ To get started, here are some notes]

* Ext4 has been a experimentally supported option from Fedora 9 release 
and is now the default filesystem for the Fedora 11 Alpha release.  List 
of new features at

http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4

FS shrink is not supported yet but planned to be made available by 
Fedora 11 release. Backup data for safety

* Btrfs (link to http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page), the 
next generation filessytem is a experimentally supported option in this 
release. To enable it within the installer, pass "icantbelieveitsnotbtr" 
in the installation boot prompt.

Screenshot and reference at

http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/Ext4-to-be-standard-for-Fedora-11-Btrf...

More testing and feedback is requested.  Backup data for safety.

* <add info on Mingw - level of support, list of packages etc>

* GNOME 2.26 development snapshot is part of the release and is the 
default environment in the Fedora Desktop Edition (installable live cd). 
<add more info>

* KDE 4.2 RC2 is part of this release and is the default environment in 
the Fedora KDE Desktop Edition (installable live cd).  <add more info 
including the new volume control and provide a screenshot>

* A major new release of Xfce, Xfce 4.6 beta is available in the 
repository and is the default environment in the Fedora Xfce Spin 
(installable live cd)


* Python 2.6 has been integrated into the release and all the software 
in the distribution has been made compatible with it. This effort will 
help lead the way to Python 3.0, a major release with some 
incompatibilities.

[ Do add information on any major changes in PackageKit, Plymouth ..]

Rahul

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:01:51PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  As usual. we need a single page release notes for Fedora 11 Alpha.
>  Edit the following page and fill in the notes for major new features,  
>  known bugs and things that need more explicit testing.
>
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Fedora_11_Alpha_release_notes...
Not sure if you intended anyone to create that page, but I have gone
and done it, and added notes about the Windows cross-compiler feature.

Rich.

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[Richard W.M. Jones]

This page, I mean:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Alpha_release_notes

Rich.

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[Rahul Sundaram]

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:01:51PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As usual. we need a single page release notes for Fedora 11 Alpha.
> > Edit the following page and fill in the notes for major new features,  
> > known bugs and things that need more explicit testing.
> >
> >
> https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Fedora_11_Alpha_release_notes...
>  
>  Not sure if you intended anyone to create that page, but I have gone
>  and done it, and added notes about the Windows cross-compiler feature 
Yes, thank you.

Rahul

[Paul Wouters]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

>  As usual. we need a single page release notes for Fedora 11 Alpha.
>  Edit the following page and fill in the notes for major new features, known 
>  bugs and things that need more explicit testing.
>
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Fedora_11_Alpha_release_notes...
>
>  Add link to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList and 
>  release schedule. 
I am not sure why this is required? It will just duplicate information from the
FeatureList page?

Paul

[Rahul Sundaram]

Paul Wouters wrote:
>  On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  
> > As usual. we need a single page release notes for Fedora 11 Alpha.
> > Edit the following page and fill in the notes for major new features, 
> > known bugs and things that need more explicit testing.
> >
> >
> https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Fedora_11_Alpha_release_notes...
>
> >
> >
> > Add link to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList and 
> > release schedule.
>  
>  I am not sure why this is required? It will just duplicate information 
>  from the FeatureList page? 
We are just adding a link so that people who are interested in more 
details can read them.

Rahul