On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 10:14 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 20.05.2010 18:42, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 14:25 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > >> I'd expect most of the support to end up in F13 updates, so I'm not > >> sure a feature page really makes sense. > > This happens with a lot of our features anyway, [...] > > And that imho is quite bad for everyone involved, as it kind of makes > everyone unhappy afaics. > > To explain: Journalists (even those that are familiar with Fedora) can't > know each and every details of Fedora and thus rely on those feature > pages quite a lot. So after reading > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KDE44 (¹) they might write (for > example) something like "One of the new interesting things in Fedora 13 > is KDE 4.4" . > > But most people that already use KDE and Fedora 12 will know: that's > nothing new, I already got that version via updates weeks ago. So they > will think "the journalists is not well informed, I don't need to read > this article any further". Some might ever write to the journalist "you > wrote crap, this is nothing new". So he might be angry with the Fedora > project, as the information it provided misguided him. That might > influence his writing for later releases, which is not what we want. Has that ever actually happened? As a Fedora user, I would tend to cut journalists a lot of slack in the situation you describe. The important information is that the feature is a focus of current work and is worth trying out if I think it might be useful to me; having the details of availability in releases right is secondary. Without addressing other reasons, I think keeping the situation simple for journalists is a pretty weak reason not to add a feature to an existing release via updates. -- Matt -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
