Regarding Get Fedora page

Máirín Duffy duffy at fedoraproject.org
Thu May 27 03:20:48 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 15:05 -0700, Alan Evans wrote:
> 2010/5/26 Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org>:
> >> That would have at least kept me (and probably many others) from
> >> scanning the page over and over again for ten minutes looking for what
> >> I just knew must be there.
> >
> > No, it wouldn't.
> 
> Yes, it would. 

No. You completely snipped out the part you were supposed to read. Go
back and read it. The point I was making is that statement would never
be on the page. As phrased it would have taken up way too much real
estate. Too much real estate? Yes. Go back and read.

> Apparently, a class of users looking to update their Fedora
> installations by a heretofore encouraged and commonly available path
> are not, in fact, customers from the perspective of the
> Every-Way-To-Get-Fedora web page. Good information, that. I'll make a
> note of it.

That's a very interesting conclusion given the very large, 'Need to
upgrade Fedora?' section on the very first download page. 

> I'm unlikely to be following many developer-oriented lists, in any
> case. Like I said, I'm just a user.

Is Fedora Weekly News developer oriented? Planet Fedora? Really?

~m



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