No release notes on Live CD - why?

[Valent Turkovic]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429672

F8 Live CD Installed has a button "Release notes" that when you click you get a
window saying "There are no release notes"

F9 Alpha Live CD Installed has no Release notes button at all, why?

Release notes are a great source of information and I believe that they would be
valuable for lots of users.

Cheers,
Valent.

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[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 11:39 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429672
>  
>  F8 Live CD Installed has a button "Release notes" that when you click you get
> a
>  window saying "There are no release notes"
>  
>  F9 Alpha Live CD Installed has no Release notes button at all, why?
>  
>  Release notes are a great source of information and I believe that they would be
>  valuable for lots of users. 
That button has gone away for F9 because it makes no sense to have
release notes in the installer.  Release notes are good for (1) making
decisions about whether you want to use a product, or (2) finding out
what's changed if you're the kind of person who just wants to dive in.
They don't help you at all if you're in the middle of installing.

Besides which, IIRC the bits to make the release notes actually display
properly inside Anaconda drag in a bunch of other requirements just to
get the installer running.

This is why we link to the Release Notes from the page where you
download the distribution.  People who care about them in advance will
read them at that point; people who don't worry about them until they're
done will have them on disk when they're finished.

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[Karsten Wade]

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 07:26 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>  On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 11:39 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429672
>  > 
>  > F8 Live CD Installed has a button "Release notes" that when you click you
> get a
>  > window saying "There are no release notes"
>  > 
>  > F9 Alpha Live CD Installed has no Release notes button at all, why?
>  > 
>  > Release notes are a great source of information and I believe that they would be
>  > valuable for lots of users.
>  
>  That button has gone away for F9 because it makes no sense to have
>  release notes in the installer.  
Right, this was an anaconda-devel decision.  Another reason is, Anaconda
is used to install various spins of Fedora.  Since those spins can (and
often do) contain updated packages, the original release notes content
produced for GA may be out of date for those packages.  It might even
contain contradictory information that would cause problems if followed.

It was a bit hard seeing the button go away after all these years :),
but it's always been a PITA to get the HTML to display, and I agree with
anaconda-devel that we don't want to have updating release notes content
a requirement for a spin.

- Karsten
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