On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 02:54:26PM -0500, John J. McDonough wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul W. Frields" > <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 2:26 PM > Subject: Re: F11 Alpha Release Notes one-sheet > >> I'd hope we're not summarizing 100+ changed packages on any beat, >> right? That would seem like overkill to me. > > I hope not. However, the Amateur Radio beat, for example, has 35 > changed/new packages. Some of the changes are minor, but quite a few are > totally new packages, some very interesting, and a large number of the > changes are very significant, at least to folks who use those packages. I was thinking of that as a bar -- ideally the beat writer knows the audience well enough to adjust content. So, for the average desktop user and related beat, we don't want to see all the GNOME/KDE package churn. But for something technical and more niche such as amateur radio (or even developers), the bar should be different. > On changes, though, I'm a little torn. A long list of changes is pretty > unexciting to read through, but if you are the person affected by that > change, it could be critical. As a minimum you need a heads-up on the > change and a link to the upstream's release notes, if such a thing > exists. Unfortunately, it seems like in a lot of cases the upstream > release notes are nonexistent or very weak, and it takes some detective > work to sort out what changed. I feel bad about leaving that to the > reader, but I don't want to end up with an encyclopedia, either. > > So we play the balancing act. Agreed, we cannot be in the game of doing upstream research; the real goal is to identify the Fedora intersection. Your style certainly gives enough information for people to work from; the niche audience knows how to find more information when they care to. - Karsten -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener http://quaid.fedorapeople.org AD0E0C41
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