On Wednesday 02 May 2007 01:21, Paul W. Frields wrote: > We have a neat Making Fedora Discs guide, but it needs some extra love > before the release. When I started worrying about how to update this > document so late, and yet have it make the release, I realized I was > thinking about it all wrong: > > 1. Including the document in the fedora-release-notes is relatively > worthless; once you have a system installed, you've either burned the > discs already, or didn't need to. > > 2. Putting the files on the ISO images is similarly worthless. > > I was thinking the following idea is much more logical: > > 1. Torrents and mirrors should carry a single tiny ASCII file, > README-Making-Discs, which will be a one-sentence link to > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/readme-burning-isos/ -- that URL carries > the full document in all its newfound glory. > > 2. Revising the existing R-B-I document is not a big job and will only > take about an hour -- but it will produce a lot of fuzzy strings for > translators. However, they'll have several weeks to fix the PO files, > because the real document can be published on the fly, as late as the > day before the release (and errata issued just like any other doc). > > Comments? Is this by any chance the document I started 15 months ago? The one I wrote with the intention of it being included in the ISO download folders for FC5? I followed the link provided above, and it's changed a lot but parts of it still look vaguely familiar. No matter, it's taking a while, but so long as it gets there in the end I'm happy to have contributed and made a small difference to the good. Dave Fletcher -- Registered Linux user number 393408 -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
