[Fedora-electronic-lab] Call for Review : FEL 12 Release Notes (draft)

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

Hello there,

We have drafted FEL'12 Release Notes, which we dearly want to hear your views.

http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/papers/FEL12ReleaseNotes.pdf

As you have read on fedora planet, many universities and small
startups are deploying Fedora Electronic Lab. Thus we hope that these
release notes will help them deduce whether they need to upgrade to
Fedora 12 or not with respect to their needs and design flow. As the
document reflects, 42 packages for electronic design and simulation
are now available for the EL-5 branch.

The document also entails some details about various patches we have
applied on our packages, which are not yet available under upstream
stable release. I'm happy to say have most of our upstream accepted
most of our patches, which is good news for the opensource eco-system.

For those who are eager to try our nightly FEL spins, please find the ISO here
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/electronic-lab/

Cheers,
Chitlesh Goorah

[Aanjhan R]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Chitlesh GOORAH
 wrote:
> We have drafted FEL'12 Release Notes, which we dearly want to hear your views.
>
> http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/papers/FEL12ReleaseNotes.pdf

Very very nice release notes! One of the best Release notes I have
ever seen for an Open Source project. Hats off first!

As a developer of GNUSim8085 I promptly found a mistake :).

Pg. 13, gsim85 is repeated. One should be gnusim8085.

Regards,
Aanjhan

[Fedora-electronic-lab] Re: Call for Review : FEL 12 Release Notes (draft)

[Mel Chua]

On 09/15/2009 06:56 AM, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> We have drafted FEL'12 Release Notes, which we dearly want to hear your views.
> http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/papers/FEL12ReleaseNotes.pdf

Thanks, Chitlesh!

I've created a ticket for this (in general, please put todo/help 
requests in Trac, so the Marketing team can track them) at 
https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/45 with some comments - 
can you see if that's what you'd like us to do?

Yay! Our first consulting project! Anyone from Marketing want a client? ;)

--Mel

[Fedora-electronic-lab] Re: Call for Review : FEL 12 Release Notes (draft)

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

Hello there,

Well just a few points worth noting.

Every release, I called for some documents (FEL flyer and Release
Notes) review in front of the marketing team. I do this as FEL Spin
maintainer and my responsibility to report back to Fedora Board since
I'm granted the use of Fedora Trademark.

The Marketing team (while I understand FEL technical details might not
be relevant for even a software engineer) should focus on

* Proper use of Fedora Trademark (whether little or too much)
    * whether FEL as a Fedora suproject is getting the desired marketing value
    * how the FEL spin can also give value to other Fedora "products"
    * Proper feedback from the community and upstream

This is basically what the review is about and this procedure should
also be used for other spins or fedora subprojects.

I would _not_ make any drastic change to the layout of the PDF
document or choosing another media, since I have used up all my time
dedicated for FEL documents. The PDF layout is basically what you can
see in any Corporate Release Notes [:1] I will consider any input that
gives Fedora and upstream a marketing value with the success of FEL
and any suggestions for improvement are welcome.

Since you opened a ticket here, I've closed the FEL ticket
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab/ticket/52

[:1] http://www.synopsys.com/Support/Licensing/Licensing/Documents/Dockeys/scl_11...

Chitlesh

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Mel Chua  wrote:
> On 09/15/2009 06:56 AM, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> > We have drafted FEL'12 Release Notes, which we dearly want to hear your
> > views.
> > http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/papers/FEL12ReleaseNotes.pdf
>
> Thanks, Chitlesh!
>
> I've created a ticket for this (in general, please put todo/help requests in
> Trac, so the Marketing team can track them) at
> https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/45 with some comments - can
> you see if that's what you'd like us to do?
>
> Yay! Our first consulting project! Anyone from Marketing want a client? ;)
>
> --Mel
>
> Fedora-electronic-lab-list mailing list
> [e-mail]
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-electronic-lab-list

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Aanjhan R < > wrote:
> > http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/papers/FEL12ReleaseNotes.pdf
>
> Very very nice release notes! One of the best Release notes I have
> ever seen for an Open Source project. Hats off first!
>
> As a developer of GNUSim8085 I promptly found a mistake :).
>
> Pg. 13, gsim85 is repeated. One should be gnusim8085.
>
> Regards,
> Aanjhan

Thanks, I've fixed it :)

Chitlesh