Spreading a little history about why we do the deliverables we do. :) http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-mktg/2010-05-17/fedora-mktg.2010-05-17-15.07.log.html and added to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings#2010, linked-to from http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-mktg/2010-05-17/fedora-mktg.2010-05-17-15.07.log.html. 15:07:26 <mchua> quaid was mentioning in another channel about the evolution towards our current https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes and what they used to be before. 15:07:38 <mchua> and I went "ooh, a history lesson opportunity" 15:07:59 <quaid> qqhave a good un 15:08:21 * quaid kicks his irssi connection 15:08:28 * wonderer puts some [*]3 into the ring ;-) 15:08:30 <quaid> ok, back 15:08:57 <quaid> so, I'll be loose with dates and details, and stickster can correct me ... 15:09:07 <quaid> we used to have about 3 locations where we'd do an overview of the release. 15:09:19 <quaid> * a single wiki page with a laundry list of upgrades 15:09:26 <quaid> * release notes overview 15:09:31 <quaid> * various announcement 15:09:53 <stickster> And none of them particularly more attractive than our existing release notes 15:10:01 <quaid> paul and I tried to define what a modified process would be like with a single source for multiple targets. 15:10:20 <quaid> for example, that became the talking points. 15:11:05 <quaid> which had another purpose, allowing a localized team to write a useful release in a native language, using a native idiomatic "fun" approach (the whimsical approach) 15:11:22 * mchua digging to see if we can find examples of those old results 15:11:59 <quaid> but we never really got a good handle wrapped around the multiple overview approach, because we were probably trying to .. well, do the marketing without really doing it as marketing. 15:12:32 <quaid> so we wanted that owned by a marketing group, who could define it; and it took a few releases to even get other people to see that vision, or rather, make it better so it made sense from my inane ramblings. 15:12:54 <mchua> Was this back in the days before the ambassador/marketing split? 15:13:02 <quaid> somewhere in there it became clear our Really Big Release Notes were not cutting it for quick understanding and PR. 15:13:03 <stickster> Not that far back 15:13:32 <quaid> also, we cooked up big notes for Alpha, with translation, and that work got 50% replaced by Beta, then 25% more by final, so we all did lots of throw away work. 15:13:45 <quaid> that's the main reason we started the one-page wiki-based release notes for the Alpha and Beta 15:13:52 <quaid> (then called Test 1, Test 2, etc.) 15:14:03 <quaid> then we could edit it right up to test release, etc. 15:14:19 <quaid> it was also a good PR tool, point it out for journalists, etc. 15:14:34 <quaid> so I think the current one-page covers all those needs: 15:14:38 <quaid> * overview for the public 15:14:41 <quaid> * good face on the release 15:14:50 <quaid> * list of talking points addressed 15:14:56 <quaid> * more attractive 15:15:01 <quaid> * not done by Docs 15:15:13 <quaid> * professional sauce 15:15:17 <quaid> <eof> as I recall it 15:15:32 <quaid> yeah, there are tons of examples on the wiki 15:16:54 <quaid> #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F9_talking_points 15:18:41 <mchua> The one-page release notes started in F12 when Sparks asked me if we could make a shiny, shorter version of the release notes Docs came out with 15:18:54 <mchua> it was originally supposed to be a joint Marketing/Docs thing, ended up being a Marketing thing. 15:19:12 <mchua> it replaced this one: 15:19:15 <mchua> #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tours/Fedora10 15:19:28 <mchua> the "fedora tour" before we had fedora-tour (as in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora-tour) 15:21:17 <mchua> And I believe this concludes our history lesson for the day. :) 15:21:24 * mchua wraps logs, posts to wiki and list 15:21:29 <mchua> thank you for the history lesson, quaid and stickster! -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
