Here we go. As promised earlier, I wanted to point out some examples of
what I thought were great responses to press about the PackageKit issue,
and the resources those responses used, for folks who want to help us go
out and do likewise.
In general, the most helpful responses seem to have a section that goes
something like: "We're working on changing this; see
$location_of_discussion (and optionally,
$list_of_resources_countering_specific_points). It would be great if you
could update the story to reflect this. Thank you." (Any tips from folks
with dealing-with-press experience?)
This topic is coming up in the FeSCo meeting tomorrow (Friday, 17:00
UTC, #fedora-meeting), so it's still very much a story in progress.
== Examples ==
Susmit pointed out the responses - and ensuing article edit - on
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/19/fedora_12_root_imbroglio/; I
thought Adam's comment at
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/19/fedora_12_root_imbroglio/comments/#c_629905
was particularly nice.
The LWN article at http://lwn.net/Articles/362592/ posted a correction,
http://lwn.net/Articles/362986/, immediately after Karsten's reply at
the end, http://lwn.net/Articles/362996/, which is a nice short
call-out. The 3rd paragraph of Mike's response to the correction,
http://lwn.net/Articles/362995/, thanks people for their constructive
criticism. (We should do more of that.)
Any other good examples of responses-to-press that people want to call
out here?
== Resources ==
* The official Fedora response announcement (from Paul):
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-November/msg00012.html
* An explanation of the background behind the change, by Owen Taylor:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-November/msg01445.html
* For users of Fedora 12 who would like to change PackageKit policy
before the fix is pushed, see
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f12/en-US/html/sect-Release_Notes-Security.html.
== For those who want to learn more ==
The FeSCo (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FESCO - Fedora Engineering
Steering Committee) agenda ticket for tomorrow's meeting is
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/277: it's at 17:00 UTC in
#fedora-meeting.
The bugzilla bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534047
Note: The full conversation thread there is fascinating but very long -
if you're short on time, read a few comments and think about which ones
(in your opinion) move us forward, and what comments (and responses) we
want to emulate when we go out and comment on press articles. To point
out a semi-random selection (I scrolled down and poked a few that caught
my eye): the revision of release notes starting in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534047#c17 (and how they
thread calmly through the rest of the discussion), the comments called
out in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534047#c99, and the
response to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534047#c236
(both in bugzilla and on the mailing list linked to - it's Owen's post).
Transparency >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt.
--Mel
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