On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 01:44:38PM -0700, Dale Bewley wrote: > ----- "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <kwade@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In general, the marketing approach is to talk about GA to GA. For > > documentation, I could see arguments either way. > > > > Dale - great question! Let's hash it out on list, set the guidance, > > and > > then you'll know. > > It seems to me that release notes are strong marketing pieces, and > are inherently documentation. For prudent people the release notes > are often the the first thing they consult before upgrading, or > taking the time to evaluate software through installation. > > Describing the differences using the previous release notes gives > one an apples to apples comparison. Also, assume F9 released with > v1.0 of a pkg. Through updates it is now at v1.9. If F10 releases > with v1.9, or even v2.0. Do you not describe all those enhancements > between .0 and .9? I'd think those features would be worth bragging > about in the rel notes. > > That's basically how I came to the question. F9 has seen a few > upgrades of libvirt with many feature enhancements from v0.4.2 up to > 0.4.6 currently. I think describing the delta from 0.4.2 to the F10 > version (0.4.6? 0.4.7?) is the only useful way to do it. I agree with this and can't add anything more persuasive. -- 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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