-- Remy DeCausemaker <decause@xxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Community Lead & Council Member http://whatcanidoforfedora.org 308C A504 0B47 1503 C9D9 E670 E633 A79B 0BB0 F6D9 ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matthew Miller" <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Fedora + Community + Operations = Fedora CommOps" <commops@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "Fedora Marketing team" <marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 12:33:11 PM > Subject: Re: [commops] working on f23 final release announcement > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 05:22:47PM -0400, Remy DeCausemaker wrote: > > I'm new here, so bear with me, but Fedora has been really been making > > the "Friends" foundation a focus of the latest release, by improving > > our infrastructure and community. I realize this is not necessarily > > the distro itself, but there are a few activities that come to mind: > > > > - We deployed Bodhi2 (5 years in the making, huge performance increases, > > fine-grained karma, and more...) > > - D&I - Advisor search ongoing, and we've approved funding to hire two > > Outreachy interns, helping with Hubs/dev portal & Community Operations > > (CommOps) > > - Fedora Hubs has already had a successful intern (mrichards) pave the way > > for future interns and contributors. > > - Fedora-bootstrap is our latest project wide CSS and website theme, > > providing cohesion to our web properties. > > - Fedmenu is a glimpse into the widgetized future that comes with > > embeddable widgets via Fedora Hubs > > - http://whatcanidoforfedora.org is like the Fedora Sorting Hat :) > > - Fedora Magazine has hit milestone readership and publications (actual > > numbers TBD) > > - Others that I am not thinking of at the moment > > > > I know this list above includes things that we have shipped along > > with things we have not yet shipped, but we've made mentionable > > progress on a number of fronts. I dunno if these 'Community' > > improvements are part of a release announcement or not, but they are > > def worth mentioning somewhere (particularly the strides that have > > been made in front-end, and in Rel-eng.) > > Nice angle — I really like this. I had suggested (or, maybe I glommed > onto someone else's suggestion beacause I like the idea — I forget — > anyway, it was suggested) that Fedora development might benefit from a > "tick-tock" cycle, with one release focusing on process improvements, > and the next release focusing on OS features. People weren't, overall, > comfortable with putting Fedora into that model, I think mostly because > feature changes sometimes come faster than that, but also irregularly. > In any case, though I think this is clearly a "tick" release, with more > process and infrastructure improvements than big change within the > actual distribution. > > On a similar note, at FUDCon Lawrence a few years ago, Tim Burke > suggested a "red/yellow/green" model for labeling how much scary change > a release contains. (As an alternative to having major/minor releases.) > I'm not a big fan of that, because I think we're mostly at the point > where even our scary releases are actually very solid and are "green" > in the absolute sense. But from that point of view, this is a "green" > release too. With our current marketing / press model, which relies on > splashy changes to generate talking points, this ironically means the > releases we'd like _most_ to get into the hands of users get less > attention. > > So anyway, that's a long way of saying that, yeah, I like the general > idea. I'm not sure a list of technical infrastructure improvements will > play any better with the press than a list of software version bumps, > though. Open to ideas. :) I'm also open to ideas. I think that getting a solid list of improvements and performance enhancements from Fedora-infra about Bodhi2 would a great section to include in the notes. It's kinda meta, but still such an epic set of improvements from a 5 year undertaking. I'll reach out to the Infra team and try to get some stats/metrics/facts/bullet points. Same for some bullet points on the Fedora-boostrap redesign too. We're making a common look/feel, and it is helping to provide some cohesion in our web properties. I'll also reach out to the Magazine folks, and see if I can get some quick bulletpoints/stats for readers/articles published. > > > > > Is there a standard template for asking the WG's and Subprojects for > > their bulletpoints? Do we even need to do that, or do we just take > > the beta notes, and then fancy them up a bit at this point? > > Beta notes make a good starting point, but I'd say fancy them up _a > lot_. :) > > -- > Matthew Miller > <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Fedora Project Leader > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > List info or to change your subscription: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing In a previous post, mattdm asked if this should be going to both mktg + commops lists. I reckon, until commops list reaches critical mass, I think keeping traffic on both lists for now is a good idea. -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List info or to change your subscription: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
