Hi folks, As I promised (but not as soon as I had hoped) I've added some details around features, as well as some other text, to the release announcement: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F18_release_announcement A few things I'd love to hear back on: * The feature deprecation section. I think it's been a long while since we had this section - and it seems to me (I have been known to be incorrect... a lot) that it feels like maybe those details have a better home in the release notes. Either way, there is some additional text in the section regarding "offer workarounds or alternatives," etc. that - if we keep this in - needs to go. I guess my question is, really, do people feel like this is "release announcement-worthy" - bearing in mind that is is a pretty lengthy announcement as is - or better suited to RN? * Punniness and translations. I'd like to get this wrapped up so that our (totally awesome and fantastic) folks who translate the release announcement can do that and be prepped for release day, and not worried about "if it's going to change again." That said - the release announcement is chuck-filled with puns - we really milked them for all they were worth, and had a total field day with it. Which is great - it makes for a slightly less dry and boring announcement, and (to be honest) makes writing it a heck of a lot less boring and dry, but tends to make it really... awkward to translate, since a lot of the puns don't really work in translation. (ie: I seriously doubt the sound "mooooo" and the word translation for move are compatible in other languages.) So, I'll throw this out there as a proposal, and if any translators are reading this, it would be great to have your feedback: Would it be useful to provide a no-cow-jokes version, perhaps simply linked in a commented-out way in the section where translators will add their links to the translated documents so they actually see that a no-joke version exists? It shouldn't be too hard - we just would need to make sure that this version is locked down and considered by all to be final, likely with a tag at the top saying "this is the final version, please don't change as translations are now underway" - copy the content to a secondary, no-puns announcement, and substitute some simpler language in place of the cow-related fun. Thoughts? Also, feedback on any other part of the announcement is of course welcome, or you can follow the whole "it's a wiki, be bold" way :) -Robyn -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
