request for review of Ubuntu 9.04 RC announcement

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 06:01:48PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:49:59AM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > The list of features seems very long, with all of the flavours included.  A
> > lot of scrolling is required to get to the download information.  Most of
> > this information duplicates the shorter summaries at the top.
> 
> Should we drop the break-out details for the {Ku,Myth,Xu}buntu and Studio
> flavors, in favor of letting those have their own announcements on the
> respective community lists?  I agree that it reads long, but wouldn't want
> to leave any of our community flavors "out in the cold" if they don't have
> another suitable announcement medium.

It's up to you if you want to change anything or not, just consider it
feedback on the overall presentation.

> > Can we link to a list of known issues with the RC?
> 
> The announcement does link to the release notes, which encompasses the
> current set of known issues.  If we get some that will be fixed post-RC
> instead, we can include them in the technical overview and link there?

Ah, I had overlooked that.  Perhaps it would be appropriate to explain what
information is to be found in the release notes?

e.g., "Before installing or upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04, please review the
instructions and caveats in the release notes:"

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 - mdz