New Features Documentation

[Matthew East]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Marc Kaplan <mk at technomensch.net> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, when we are getting ready for a launch, as we
> just did:
>
> 1) How do we get the Release Notes?  Who starts on them/writes them?
> How do they know what has been fixed/added/removed?

They are written by the release managers and posted here in draft for review.

> 2) How do WE know which features have been added?  When I saw this on
> LifeHacker, this took me completely off guard:
>
> http://lifehacker.com/5070747/ubuntu-810-released-includes-bootable-usb-maker
>
> I would think this is probably something that would have been nice to
> know about and document in the official help docs prior to launch (maybe
> it was, but I haven't had a chance to look yet).  I'm wondering what
> else might be out there that should be documented that was added.  Is
> there a different mailing list that we should subscribe to so we can
> stay on top of things like this?

The key thing is to subscribe to the development mailing lists, so
ubuntu-devel, ubuntu-devel-discuss, and ubuntu-devel-announce. If you
subscribe to the latter, you will get the announcements about each
alpha release of the development release, which contains a link to a
document showing all the new features of that release. All such
documents are listed here:

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing

-- 
Matthew East
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