Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

[Jaroslav Reznik]

----- Original Message -----
> It doesn't matter from a "get this thing into Fedora" standpoint.  It
> very much matters from a marketing/communication standpoint.  If it
> didn't matter, Fedora Marketing wouldn't be picking specific items
> out
> of the overall Feature list.
> 
> The example I used in the meeting (which btw you should really go
> read
> the full logs at this point because all I'm doing is repeating
> myself)
> is that if you give a tech journalist a list of 10 Features, they can
> write a pretty decent article about what is coming in the next Fedora
> release.  If you give them a list of 20-30 Features, they're either
> going to ignore you entirely or pick 10 Features they think are worth
> writing about.

That's the problem - FeatureList should not be used tech journalists
at all! It's internal tracking "tool". For journalists, we have Talking
Points [1] - originally written for Ambassadors! (And yep, good time to 
spin it up). We have Beats... Announcements based on these with picked
up the most important features without going into too much details -
easier for journalist to create a good article. Feature list changes
too often, it could be out of sync, feature pages are written for
technical people, usually hard to understand etc...

And yeah, as I understand - Features were created for marketing 
purposes. So let's not call that internal list features list but use
some other term and then with cooperation with marketing and docs
pick up let say ten most important things that happened in recent
release and feature them as The Features. But marketing POV should not
limit our development tracking ;-)

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_talking_points

Jaroslav

> Some Features are more important than others.  I want FESCo involved
> in reviwing the ones that are big, have an impact across the distro,
> are somewhat controversial, and have the potential to require a lot
> of
> coordination.  Whatever we call those, that is what I want reviewed.
> 
> josh
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