On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:21:30PM -0400, Adam D. Ligas wrote: > OK - I didn't see any responses to this. I opted to go for funny and a > food theme. Funny because I like humor, and food because I'm actually > quite hungry at the moment :). > > If this doesn't fit the tone of what we are looking for I have no > problem throwing it out. I was really writing this more as an exercise > to try to write something like this. > > That said, feel free to hack it up and make it look like someone who > knew what they were doing wrote it :). I couldn't find a link to the > release notes in the wiki, so that would certainly need to be added. Not bad! Some comments inline. > --- Fedora Preview Release Announcement Start --- > > Do you smell that? I think its almost done! We might want to go easy on the "smell" imagery unless we use gentler words like "aroma" or "fragrance." But those sound a little goofy too... > The Fedora Project is proud to announce the availability of the Fedora > 10 Preview Release. The Fedora 10 Preview Release is our last > pre-release offering before we let everyone taste the goods for real. > > Doesn't it smell yummy? We know you can't resist, and we don't want you > to! We want everyone in the Fedora community to take an early sample > and tell us what you find. We think the recipe is pretty good, but now > is the time to make it perfect. > > And, since this is Fedora, we don't have anything to hide. You can take > a peek at what is in the secret sauce by looking at our Release Notes in > the Fedora Project wiki. We use 100% pure FOSS here, none of that high > fructose proprietary stuff. Beautifully done! :-) > We expect that many of you will get nothing but a tasty treat, but some > of you might experience something a little more bitter. Don't fret - > all is not lost! There is still time to improve the recipe before we > share it with the world. Just head on over to the Fedora Bugzilla > (http://bugzilla.redhat.com) and let us know what offended your palate. > > If you'd like, you can even interact with the chefs more directly. You > can join the live staff in the kitchen by coming to #fedora-qa on > irc.freenode.net, or you can leave a message for the staff by sending an > email to the fedora-test-list. > > Ready to get your free preview sample? Go ahead and swipe one straight > from the oven - we don't mind. Put on your favorite heat resistant > BitTorrent mitt and grab one of the following goodies. Take as many or > as few as you like. > > Thanks for tasting! I think overall this is just fantastic, Adam -- nice job! Anyone want to take an editorial swipe? -- 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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