Elton Woo said: > On November 24, 2003 04:54 pm, Edward C. Bailey, "Edward C. Bailey" > <ed@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Basically, what do you want the release notes to look like? > If I may suggest, and looking at the notes from the point of view of a > new linux user, or migrant from the Microsoft Windows world. > > The page is too long. People lose interest or just plain too LAZY to > read to the bottom. Hence, I would suggest breaking it up into > LINKED sections, starting with Problem being that people too lazy to read the release notes (and mailing list archives) now will still be too lazy. I don't see any point trying to write docs to the "lowest common denominator" when they are just going to have to be quoted on the list as an answer anyway. Another point is that a lot of things mentioned seem to be pretty general (not release specific). If it is general info, why would it be in the release notes. Descriptions of the project, how to use apt, yum, up2date, etc. don't belong in the release notes, unless something has changed with this release (case in point, Yarrow's version of up2date supporting yum and apt repositories). -- William Hooper
