Maintainer input on release notes

2013-05-13 Thread John J. McDonough
We had a short discussion of this at this morning's meeting but felt a broader discussion here was warranted. When preparing the Release Notes, we often ask the developers for wiki input, and generally come up dry. More recently, we look though the repos for changes, but the upstream release

Re: Embedded SIG

2013-04-21 Thread John J. McDonough
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 5:01 AM, Markus Mayer lotharl...@gmx.de wrote: So I have decide to ask if there are others like me, and if there are willing to form a SIG (special interest group) to enhance embedded developing with fedora. I have an interest in an Embedded SIG, although less for the

Re: Request: Co-maintainership of Chitlesh's Fedora packages

2012-09-17 Thread John J. McDonough
SK I would be willing to assist to the degree I can. I consider Chitlesh's packages to be quite valuable and would like to see them kept up to date. I probably couldn't offer much for the more arcane stuff, but I could deal with the more vanilla microcontroller, circuit design, etc. packages.

Release Notes

2011-10-12 Thread John J. McDonough
This release we seem to have gotten quite a few timely bugs, some of them quite subtle. I thank all of you who took the time to pore over the beta notes and submit bugs. Many of these subtleties the Docs writers really can't pick up on, and your effort makes the release notes that much better.

Seeking package review - R-qcc

2011-08-26 Thread John J. McDonough
R-qcc is an SPC/SQC plugin for R: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722640 The spec file is pretty much a rip off of other R plugins - there doesn't seem to be anything particularly special about this plugin. I am working on a guide for using R for Six Sigma practitioners, and this

Beats are open

2011-08-09 Thread John J. McDonough
The release notes beats for Fedora 16 are now open. If you are working on some new feature for Fedora 16 that should be included in the release notes, please consider heading on over to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Beats select the appropriate beat for your feature, and write a

Release Notes Beats closing

2011-04-02 Thread John J. McDonough
I will be converting the remaining beats tomorrow. If there are any last minute additions, get them in now. --McD -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Release Notes Beats closing

2011-03-23 Thread John J. McDonough
We are behind schedule on Release Notes. Most of the wiki beats have been updated, at least for key features. If you have been working on a beat, please review it and set the Wiki Good indicator to 1 if you think it is OK on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_beats If you are

F14 Final Wiki Freeze

2010-09-27 Thread John J. McDonough
Monday, October 4, is the wiki freeze for the GA release notes. If there is something you want to see in the release notes now is your last chance. The release notes draft content can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Beats This page links to a wiki page for each area in

Re: Release Notes Draft

2010-09-07 Thread John J. McDonough
On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 00:14 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:45:53AM -0400, John J. McDonough wrote: A number of beats were blank, and some of them probably should be, but I left them in the document for now as a reminder in case you are aware of something

Re: Release Notes Draft

2010-09-07 Thread John J. McDonough
On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 09:01 -0400, Christopher Antila wrote: Hi John: I made changes to (i.e. finally completed) the KDE portion of the wiki's Desktop beat a few days ago, and they are not in the draft. I will add these to the git version today/tonight. If there's anything that I need to

Release Notes Draft

2010-09-06 Thread John J. McDonough
The wiki has been converted and a draft of the release notes is available at http://jjmcd.fedorapeople.org/Download/Release_Notes/ for your review. The sources are up to date in git, but the translation branch is not yet complete. I will go ahead and do that this afternoon. If you could

Re: Release Notes Draft

2010-09-06 Thread John J. McDonough
On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 01:23 +0200, Jonathan MERCIER wrote: Le lundi 06 septembre 2010 à 11:45 -0400, John J. McDonough a écrit : The wiki has been converted and a draft of the release notes is available at [clip] Why i do not see D programming ? It's there: 6.1.1 New Programming Language

Alpha Release Notes Next Week

2010-08-03 Thread John J. McDonough
One week from today we will begin preparing the Alpha Release Notes. If you have an application you think should be mentioned in the Alpha Notes please be sure your Feature page is concise and compelling. The Alpha Release Notes are quite succinct, so not every new feature will be mentioned, in

Wiki Freeze Reminder

2010-04-08 Thread John J. McDonough
In just over a week, on April 19, the wiki will freeze for Release Notes for Fedora 13. If you have content you would like to see the the Release Notes go to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Beats and click on the most appropriate beat. Add your content there. Note that the

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal

2010-03-12 Thread John J. McDonough
Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at said: If the infrastructure sucks where you live, what needs to happen is that the infrastructure needs to improve, not that the whole world adapts to stone-age infrastructure. Bandwidth is required for many more

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposa

2010-03-12 Thread John J. McDonough
Kevin wrote: But that still doesn't answer the question whether it shouldn't be up to people like you to choose a distribution catering to your needs as opposed to imposing them on the existing Fedora. The problem is, if all the distributions optimize for people with low bandwidth, then

Release Notes Wiki Freeze

2010-03-10 Thread John J. McDonough
Next week is the wiki freeze for Fedora 13 Release Notes. If you have something important that needs to be in the release notes, update the appropriate wiki beat. Go to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Beats and select the appropriate beat. Then add a note to that beat. Your update