version comparison guidance (was Re: self introduction and rel notes advice)

[Karsten Wade]

We have ourselves a good ol' fashioned disagreement, backed by a lack of
guidelines and consistency!  Let's have a closer look ...

On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 18:12 -0400, Jason Taylor wrote:
>  On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 22:55 -0700, Dale Bewley wrote:
>  > 
>  > When describing new features of a release, should one describe the
>  > improvements between the feature as it existed at F9 release time or as it 
>  > exists in the most recent F9 updates? I assume the former. 
>  
>  Ideally, it would describe features as they differ from current release in its updated
> form. 
... and ...

On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 19:55 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  Dale Bewley wrote:
>  
>  > 
>  > When describing new features of a release, should one describe the
>  > improvements between the feature as it existed at F9 release time or as it 
>  > exists in the most recent F9 updates? I assume the former. 
>  
>  Release time is what we cover. That is we compare and note down details 
>  that is different between Fedora 9 GA and what is expected in Fedora 10 GA. 
I would say ... sometimes we do one, sometimes the other, and we haven't
been very strict.

In general, the marketing approach is to talk about GA to GA.  For
documentation, I could see arguments either way.

Dale - great question!  Let's hash it out on list, set the guidance, and
then you'll know.

- Karsten
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