On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 17:30, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > Not applicable to several thousand other people who *plan* around that > schedule, Tom. Also, given the size of this audience, the more > professionally things are done, the better things will go and the more > smoothly the community will function. Personally, I believe that if one > posts a schedule one should: > > 1. Only post milestone points which can be clearly defined and are > important. > > 2. Clearly note the date when each milestone is passed (and post > this information, of course). > > 3. Post *one paragraph* of "latest news" and update it once a week > or whenever a milestone is passed... whichever is more frequent. > > 4. Immediately post any changes to the posted schedule. > > Even if one poor sod is doing all the website maintenance, the above four > points would not take him/her any longer than five minutes a week. And > given the positive PR and impact on the perception of the afore-mentioned > several thousand people plus magazine reviewers, other press contacts, > idiots who say we'll never be a polished, business-usable operating system, > et al., I should think that those four points are the *very least* the > Fedora Project should complete re the posted schedule. > > Cheers, > > > -- > Rodolfo J. Paiz > rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.simpaticus.com > I'd even volunteer to be the poor sod that updates the site if that is what it takes to make sure we have timely information. Luc Bouchard
