On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 02:03:20AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Paul W. Frields wrote: > >> I think Matthias meant that the Alpha is intended for a highly >> technical developer/tester audience, for whom screenshots aren't very >> compelling. > > I thought so too earlier on but from interacting with users, it isn't > quite true. Even for alpha or beta releases, a lot of people (and press) > like screenshots. Screenshots and screencasts attract people throughout > development cycle. Any major change in the interface like Plymouth in the > earlier release and volume control in this release is definitely worth > highlighting. > > Also, instead of trying to put together all of the release notes at the > end of the cycle, I am trying to do it more incrementally and do a better > job each milestone. Except for a few notes about what a alpha or beta > release means, it is worth taking it as seriously as the general release. > I am now more or less done with the Fedora 11 Alpha release notes and > pretty happy with it. You did a good job of bubbling up important topics for the release notes, thanks for your work there! -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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