Preparing for F11 Release Notes

[ryan lerch]

This link was posted in response to a similar thread i started on
fedora-devel, and provides a good user "review" of the release
notes...

http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2008/12/read-same-paragraphs-every-half-year.html

cheers,
ryanlerch


On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Basil Mohamed Gohar
<abu_hurayrah at hidayahonline.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 11:25 -0500, Eric Christensen wrote:
>> On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 00:15 +0800, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:
>> > And I have to say, maybe it's just me, but I was far more "wowed" and
>> > "awed" by the Gnome & KDE release notes than the Fedora ones.  I still
>> > got what I wanted from the Fedora ones, but the Gnome & KDE ones really
>> > gave me that desire to try them out.
>>
>> So in addition to the facts we should throw in some sparkly objects that
>> make people NEED to come try it out.  The world might end unless you try
>> out our new features!
>>
>> I agree.  I've never read the GNOME or KDE release notes but I will now.
>> If we are missing something that could entice people to come on over
>> then we are missing out.
>
> I guess the main difference I recall are:
>      * Mentioning of what makes $thisrelease better than $thisrelease--
>      * A reasonably flat layout in one document.  No more than 2 levels
>        of hierarchy (easy to digest)
>      * Anything that needs more details is linked elsewhere
>      * The document itself looks pretty.  If there is a compelling new
>        style, then that theme is used (e.g., KDE).  If the website has
>        a nice interface, than that style is used (Gnome).  I fear,
>        currently, Fedora Project is lacking on both fronts, at least on
>        the web side.
>
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