Fedora12 Release Notes.

[Ed Greshko]

reg at dwf.com wrote:
> What has happened to the concept of release notes that a person could
> actually print down and read?
>
> Previous releases have had Release Notes that were mabe 20 pages long, with a
> sentence or two about each change.
>
> I looked at the Release Notes for Fedora12, and its a 500page PDF document.
> Now thats way longer than I want to print, since I would never read it all, and
> there is no way Im going to read more than a page or two of it online. 
>
> So basically, someone has spent a lot of time, generating a very nice looking 
> document, which I am sure has a lot of good information in it, but we need 
> something more compact. Something I can read in 10minutes.
>
> As it stands, I have to assume that I, and everyone else just ignores these
> Release Notes.  Too bad.
>   
Well, you can count me out in your assumption.

I enjoy the entire 496 page document that has a comprehensive index
which makes it easy for me to locate change information on the subjects
most important to me.  I entirely appreciate the amount of time and
effort it took those responsible to create this fine document.

I wouldn't want to see less information in the release notes.  I'm
impressed that someone went to the effort to list all of the upstream
URLs and have found that to be of great value to me.

Besides, I don't know how anyone could create a document which would
contain all the information that conforms to each individual's 10 minute
attention span.  Any document that short would certainly leave out
information important to someone.

FWIW, I can't remember the last time I printed a even a 10 page document. 

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