F21 Alpha release announcement

[Jaroslav Reznik]

----- Original Message -----
> On 09/19/2014 02:40 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> Hey marketing!
> >> As Fedora 21 is coming, the readiness meeting is this week, I'd like
> >> to have release announcement draft written by the meeting, sooner
> >> than later (even there's still some possibility of Alpha delays).
> >>
> >> Fedora 21 as it's next, is going to be a bit different to previous
> >> releases, especially with products introduction. We should make sure
> >> release announcement reflects it but on the other hand, I really like
> >> the target audience structure we have now (and it still somehow fits
> >> products).
> >>
> >> As always, place to coordinate/write announcement is at:
> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F21_Alpha_release_announcement
> > 
> > So Fedora 21 Alpha status is go, we will need final announcement on
> > Monday and then prepare text formatted version for the official
> > announcement on Tuesday morning (US time).
> 
> I'll go ahead and take this.
> 
> > Server guys already updated it, Workstation was pinged to update
> > theirs part (but for Alpha I'd limit it a bit).
> 
> So, there's additional changes coming?

See the list, "Some suggestions for Marketing notes for FW 21" but for
me it's more like final material. Too detailed for Alpha but some parts
could be interesting to pick up.

> > Maybe we should put back some of other non Product related changes,
> > the list is here - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/21/ChangeSet
> > MODIFIED changes were ready for Alpha, maybe some other changes are
> > now ready too but I'm going to do the check for Beta later again.
> 
> Sorry, "put back"? Does that mean we should remove some of them, or...?

Non native speaker :). I meant we had broad scope of changes in the
announcement, now it aims solely on product related changes. 

> 
> > Another thing I'd mention is, that we are not products only
> > distribution. But we have KDE, other spins etc. and explain the
> > relation (I know it's hard, we as project are still not 100%
> > sure what the relation is).
> 
> Since the alpha announcement is the first one out with "products" maybe
> we lead with products and hold off until beta or final to try to broach
> this?
> 
> Or are we worried that if we don't get this in the alpha announcement,
> people will think we're dropping spins? (I'm thinking this may be more
> likely, I'll try to work a note in about spins as well.)

I was thinking about it same way. On one hand, we are going to introduce
big change and products should be headline for the announcement on the
other hand I expect screaming users if non-product deliverables are not
mentioned at all and we're dropping spins.

Thanks
Jaroslav

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> 
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