Re: Fwd: Fedora 20 Beta Release Announcement Draft

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Hi Pete,
Well, I took my trusty LibreOfficewriter and did a markup of the aforementioned first draft.   To the group, please review my comments. The changes may appear trivial, but they are to make the document more precise and more readable.
In case the attachment is stripped due to email processing, here it is inline.  Sorry to do the attachment inline.  I did  not want to file a bugzilla report .  Changes or comments are in yellow.

 

 
Regards

 Leslie
Mr. Leslie Satenstein


What is the Beta Release?
The beta release is the last important milestone before the release of Fedora 20. A Beta release is code-complete and bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. Only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates up to the general release of Fedora 20. The final release of Fedora 20 is expected in early December.
If you do not as yet have a copy, here is where you go to fetch one.

We need your help to make Fedora 20 the best release yet, so please take some time to download and try out the beta and make sure the things that are important to you are working. If you find a bug, please report it – every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make Fedora 20 a rock-solid distribution. We have a culture of coordinating new features and pushing fixes upstream as much as feasible and your feedback will help improve not only Fedora but Linux and free software on the whole. (See the end of this announcement for more information on how to help.)
Are you sure there are millions?


10 Years of Fedora

The Fedora 20 release coincides nicely with the 10th anniversary of Fedora. The first Fedora release (then called Fedora Core 1) came out on November 6, 2003.
Since then, the Fedora Project has become an active and vibrant community that produces nearly a dozen "spins" (A spin is a specially assembled version of Fedora. Refer to the Spin topic below for more info ) that are tailor made for desktop users, hardware design, gaming, musicians, artists, and early classroom environments.

For non Fedora users or first time readers, it is good idea to explain of what constitutes a spin Refer them to the Spin Paragraph/section.

ARM as a Primary Architecture

While Fedora has supported a number of hardware architectures over the years, x86/x86_64 has been the default for the majority of Fedora users and for the Linux community in general.
ARM, however, has been making massive technological strides as a computer hardware architecture. It already dominates the mobile market, and is becoming a go-to platform for hobbyists and makers, and is showing enormous promise for the server market as well.
In keeping with Fedora's commitment to innovation, the Fedora community has been pushing to make ARM a primary architecture to satisfy the needs of users and developers targeting the ARM platform.
Please qualify what you mean by “and makers”. Do you mean and computer hardware makers?

NetworkManager Improvements

NetworkManager is getting several improvements in Fedora 20 that will be welcome additions for power users and system administrators.
Users will now be able to add, edit, delete, activate, and de-activate network connections via the nmcli command line tool, which will make life much easier for non-desktop uses of Fedora.
Please remove “now” as it is superfluous.
NetworkManager is also getting support for bonding interfaces and bridging interfaces. Bonding and bridging are used in many enterprise setups and are necessary for virtualization and fail-over scenarios.

No Default Sendmail, Syslog

Fedora 20 removes some services that many users find unnecessary, though (of course) they will remain available as installable packages for users who might need them.
The systemd journal now takes the place as the default logging solution, having been tested and able to manage persistent logging in place of syslog.

Consider rephrasing to..
The systemd journal assumes the role as the default logging solution, having been tested and able to manage persistent logging in place of syslog.
Also, Sendmail will no longer be installed by default, as most Fedora installs have no need of a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA).


OS Installer Support for LVM Thin Provisioning

LVM has introduced thin provisioning technology, which provides greatly improved snapshot functionality in addition to thin provisioning capability. This lvm change will make it possible to configure thin provisioning during OS installation.
Please add lvm (without bolding) between "This will" so that This refers to lvm and not the “improved snapshot functionality” or do you mean both changes. In that case put These changes will make it possible to.....


VM Snapshot UI with virt-manager

This change will make taking VM snapshots much easier. qemu and libvirt have all the major pieces in place for performing safe VM snapshots/checkpoints, however there isn't any simple discoverable UI. This feature will track adding that UI to virt-manager, and any other virt stack bits that need to be fixed/improved. This includes adding functionality to libvirt to support deleting and re-basing to external snapshots.
Is it a change or a new feature? And if it is a change, what is the change? Note. Here you got it right as... after “This” you included  “feature”.
Rebasing -->re-basing.


Developer Goodies.
Should the list of goodies be indented to show all of what Goodies includes?


Note on performance

Fedora development releases use a kernel with extra debug information to help us understand and resolve issues faster; however, this can have a significant impact on performance. Refer to the kernel debug strategy for more details. You can boot with slub_debug=- or use the kernel from nodebug repository to disable the extra debug info.

Replace “with” with the word “containing”. The debug information is not next to the kernel, it is within the kernel.


Issues and Details
Heisenbug Alpha is a testing release. To report issues encountered during testing, contact the Fedora QA team via the test mailing list or in #fedora-qa on freenode.
As testing progresses, common issues are tracked at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F20_bugs
For tips on reporting a bug effectively, read http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_file_a_bug_report .
Ḑon't you mean Heisenburg Beta.


The changes in this text are slightly more recent than the attached document.




On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 2:21 PM, Pete Travis <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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From: "Pete Travis" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Oct 16, 2013 12:20 PM
Subject: Fwd: Fedora 20 Beta Release Announcement Draft
To: "Pete Travis" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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From: "Joe Brockmeier" <jzb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Oct 16, 2013 6:55 AM
Subject: Fedora 20 Beta Release Announcement Draft
To: "Fedora Marketing" <marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc:

Hi all,

We're coming up on the delivery date for the beta release announcement,
so I've taken the liberty of getting started on that.

You'll find the draft here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F20_Beta_release_announcement

If it looks eerily similar to the alpha announcement, that's because it
(mostly) is. Next steps are to go through and see what's been completed
between the alpha and beta stages, and add/remove things as necessary to
ensure that this hits the most important points for the beta.

Thoughts, comments, flames?

Best,

jzb
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