Scott Robbins wrote:
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 03:31:58AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Scott Robbins wrote:
So, that's my suggestion. Include an UPDATING that gets updated when
various changes that might surprise people are made. What might
surprise people is of course, subjective, but....
Why do you think that a complete new file like this would be read by
more people than the better known release notes which already has a
section specific to upgrades?
I guess it's a habit from FreeBSD. Everyone knew that it should be read
before updating.
Yes, but very few people have such prior knowledge and the audience for
Fedora is different. A lot of people know they "should" read release
notes but don't anyway or miss out changes or the impact of those changes.
Also, I think that if it were publicized, for example, if something is
mentioned there, and then someone posts, for example, on Fedora forums
about it, someone else will post back, Didn't you read UPDATING?
That's pretty much what we do with the release notes. A big reason why I
contribute to the release notes is because I was tired of explaining the
same changes to everybody trying a new release.
Also release notes is written in the wiki, converted into docbook and
following the documentation team process including translations into
dozens of languages. A separate text file just splinters the process.
At any rate, if you believe this is useful and willing to make it
happen, feel free to post to fedora-docs list. Despite my doubts on this
suggestion, if it turns to be more effective, that would be a good thing.
Rahul
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