On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 08:32:32AM -0400, John J. McDonough wrote: > As I dug into John Poelstra's schedule in more detail, I noticed a few > issues that I hadn't noticed in earlier reviews. Specifically, very long > times on some short tasks with short times on some more difficult tasks, > and tasks out of order. > > Since I don't have a really good feel for the guides, I put together what > I thought was a more workable schedule for release notes only. Eric was > going to look at guides. My strawman is at: > > http://jjmcd.fedorapeople.org/F12RN2a.html > > I fixed major milestones to the same dates that John had so hopefully we > don't affect other teams. However, I did put a couple of L10N tasks on > the list since they are tied closely to us. I have not, however, had any > discussion with L10N as to whether these times make any sense at all to > them. > > John suggested we get together in a Gobby/Talk meeting to get this > schedule into sync with his. I think we need to get the guides schedule > integrated with this and include a representative from L10N in that > meeting. > > Because of the new definition of alpha and beta, our schedule looks a lot > different than earlier releases. Specifically, since alpha should be > "feature complete", we should have almost everything we need for release > notes by alpha. That means the bulk of our work is between alpha and > beta. However, since Beta should include more or less complete release > notes, L10N will need time to translate them. That pushes Docs work > forward some, meaning we will have a real scramble right around alpha, and > L10N will have a pile of work just before beta. The upside is that the > work before GA should be a little less onerous, and there should be little > left to translate. > > If we can make our plan of a table for all changes and prose only for > significant effort required to convert plus highlighting high-profile > features, there should be a lot less prose to write (and translate) than > previous releases. We will, however, need some pretty aggressive wiki > gardening to allow us to convert to XML quickly. > > I would like everyone to take a really close look at this, and comment on > it on this list. I think I have the major tasks identified, but it is > always good to have more input. Hi John, Can you explain what the "Review f-r-n.html" tasks are for? I noticed that these take several days to a week and that L10n doesn't get the content until after that happens. Is this something that could be combined with the XML conversion so that L10n could have a longer time available to translate content? -- 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 -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
