On Saturday 22 May 2010 10:14:01 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. > It's a common problem with "journalists" - I remember one "review" which was practically rewritten Fedora Features page. And guess what - one of the great feature wasn't even included in final Fedora (not fully :D). But there's difference - it's feature for F13 - it's going to include KDE 4.4.x as default one and thus it's a new feature. Default F12 image still ships the old one and you have to update. R. > knurd > > (¹) Yes, that page contains "Currently KDE 4.4.2 is packaged in the > devel and Fedora 13 branches and also shipped in updates to Fedora 11 > and 12.". But journalists are busy people and might not have time to > read each and every feature page completely (and might miss is easily > if they do). -- Jaroslav Řezník <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 602 797 774 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
