On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 00:21 +0100, David Fletcher wrote: > 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. Yes, you made a BIG difference by contributing this. The doc you see was captured from the wiki and subsequently edited. Here's a couple mirrors that carry it: http://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/iso/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/iso/ Unfortunately, these are in the minority, and they're only carrying the US English version. Since it is difficult to get mirrors to host *all* the translations of this document, we may be far better off including a one-sentence README pointing to the new canonical publication: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/readme-burning-isos/ If you want a glow of pride, check out all the languages your doc appears in now! -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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