F11 Alpha Release Notes one-sheet

[John J. McDonough]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul W. Frields" <stickster at gmail.com>
To: <fedora-docs-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: F11 Alpha Release Notes one-sheet

> I'd hope we're not summarizing 100+ changed packages on any beat,
> right?  That would seem like overkill to me.

I hope not.  However, the Amateur Radio beat, for example, has 35 
changed/new packages.  Some of the changes are minor, but quite a few are 
totally new packages, some very interesting, and a large number of the 
changes are very significant, at least to folks who use those packages.

I forsee over 70 changes in Devtools.  Many require action on the part of 
the user so really need to be there.  In that case, though, I think I can do 
a lot of breaking up into smaller groups.  Actually, I kind of did that on 
the AR apps, too.  But after I see what they all look like i will certainly 
do some winowing or perhaps grouping.

Last time we had big bunches of app descriptions.  That was just an error.

On changes, though, I'm a little torn.  A long list of changes is pretty 
unexciting to read through, but if you are the person affected by that 
change, it could be critical.  As a minimum you need a heads-up on the 
change and a link to the upstream's release notes, if such a thing exists. 
Unfortunately, it seems like in a lot of cases the upstream release notes 
are nonexistent or very weak, and it takes some detective work to sort out 
what changed.  I feel bad about leaving that to the reader, but I don't want 
to end up with an encyclopedia, either.

So we play the balancing act.

--McD