Good approach. If you allow me a quote: "Before all else, be armed" - Nicollo Machiavelli On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 15:49 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm not sure if it's worth that; so far I haven't seen any story which > > actually comes out and claims the bug is in Fedora. I just wanted to > > provide an explanation in case it comes up. There was one comment on a > > fairly obscure news article - > > http://techie-buzz.com/foss/ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx-hit-by-major-memory-leak-problem.html - which claimed Fedora was affected, but that's all. > > Blame me for that obscure blog. > > Hopeful this all blows over and the notoriety that the Ubuntu big has > gotten in the last few days doesn't morph into some sort of "common > knowledge" that Red Hat/Fedora has this bug and Ubuntu ended up > catching it and we didn't. The wording of the launchpad ticket leaves > a lot of room to make poor judgements about the pedigree of this > particular patchset. As evidenced in the comments of that blog > article. > > phoronix I think is the oldest article I can find from April 21st and > I think other blogs have picked it up from there and are > rebroadcacsting it . Blogs being what they are, I really don't want > to see the poor choice of wording in the Launchpad ticket get > mischaracterized in an effort to sensationalize a story and drive blog > readership at the expense of... reality. > > And In case this ends up infesting back channel communications like > blog comment areas, twitter or irc...any place where crowdsourced > misinformation breeds and propagates... I do not want comments like > the one in that blog to be repeated without having a rebuttal a quick > google search away. Does it need to be a press release? No. It's not > really appropriate to rub Debian or Ubuntu's noses in picking up an > intermediate patchset and running with it. But having an easily > searchable wiki page at hand for reference would be something nice to > have...just in case I need to politely educate someone who chooses to > make statements not supported by fact. > > But I do like the QA story about how our testing repository worked to > help iterate a solution inside our new pre-release branching workflow. > That's a nice positive story. If we can tell it without referencing > the problems others have had in this area, I think that would be a > good positive affirmation for our QA team and the new workflow > introduced in F13. > > -jef -- Nelson Marques Evil Clown (http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/evilclown.htm) -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
