On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 04:21:05PM -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 01:13:36PM -0400, Remy DeCausemaker wrote: > >> 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. > > > > I don't think we want to conflate the audience that wants to know how > > much better the sausage tastes, with the people that care about > > improvements to the sausage making equipment. > > +1 to this. Release announcements are already long-ish as it is. I > think there's a nice line to walk between having personality and not > being boring, informative without losing the reader, > > That said -- I think there's definitely room for a mail / blog post to > the wider community celebrating the continuous improvements to the > sausage factory with each release. (Where, definitely room == people > would read it and it would be appreciated, not necessarily room in > someone's life to make it happen :D) I agree wholeheartedly. This is something that could go to announce@ for instance, which should reach everyone in the contributor community and beyond. > And something like that -- assuming it was published just before or at > the same time as the release announcement -- would be a fine short > addition to a release announcement, IMO. "Want to see how the sausage > is made?" [1] ... "then read this link to take a peek inside the > factory, and how you too can become an official oompa loompa," or > something to that effect, in the contributing section. I'd call this optional since we are not always good about tight-timing that type of pricess. :-) But certainly worth social-media lovin'. > Note that the "how the sausage is made" joke has already been used in > this context a bit :) > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F17_Alpha_release_announcement How can we forget? (And wouldn't want to.) -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List info or to change your subscription: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
