Release Notes

[Paul W. Frields]

I had a quick look at a few samples from the release notes content and
I think it's in need of some editorial love.  This is not a great
situation to be in post-Preview Release, because now we will end up
changing more strings for the translators.

The final drop for the updated strings (POT file) to L10n needs to
happen no later than November 6th so translators have enough time to
translate strings for the F10 final release.

If you are a good technical writer/editor, can fix common mistakes in
grammar, usage, and clarity, and have some time free to help, we
really do need it.  I'll be spending some time on this task over the
weekend but probably can't do it all myself.

I've made a further status column for F10 GA here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats#Beat_Assignments

So as you edit, please mark something there.  If you're unsure whether
it's *really* ready, put your initial beside the '0' mark, and someone
else will confirm for you.  Thanks in advance for helping, team!

[John J. McDonough]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul W. Frields" 
To: "Fedora Documentation Project" 
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 5:02 PM
Subject: Release Notes
> So as you edit, please mark something there.  If you're unsure
> whether it's *really* ready, put your initial beside the '0' mark, and
> someone else will confirm for you.

Paul, it isn't entirely clear to me -- you want edits done on the wiki inn 
Docs/Beats/whatever?

I had noticed a number of issues with placement/ordering of things.  I think 
I got one or two in bugzilla but it wasn't clear that was the right place to 
report such things.  Unfortunately, I've now forgotten what I discovered 
*after* I put some stuff in bugzilla, so I suppose it is a rediscovery!

--McD

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 05:21:02PM -0400, John J. McDonough wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul W. Frields" 
> To: "Fedora Documentation Project" 
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 5:02 PM
> Subject: Release Notes
> > So as you edit, please mark something there.  If you're unsure
> > whether it's *really* ready, put your initial beside the '0' mark, and
> > someone else will confirm for you.
>
> Paul, it isn't entirely clear to me -- you want edits done on the wiki inn 
> Docs/Beats/whatever?

Yes, correct.  That is the source of the Release Notes, and content
should be edited at the source.
> I had noticed a number of issues with placement/ordering of things.  I 
> think I got one or two in bugzilla but it wasn't clear that was the right 
> place to report such things.  Unfortunately, I've now forgotten what I 
> discovered *after* I put some stuff in bugzilla, so I suppose it is a 
> rediscovery!

If there are bugs in Bugzilla we should handle those as well.  Thanks
for taking the time to file them; it really does help.