"Feature(s) of the Week"

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 07:00:53PM +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> I had another thought about something cool for Ubuntu Weekly News. There
> are a ton of features in Dapper that people don't know about. And of
> course there will be a bunch of new features in Edgy. Many, if not most
> of these are listed as specs.
> 
> It would be cool, each week, to have a paragraph on a Dapper feature
> (implemented) perhaps with some commentary from the guys who did the
> work. And of course, to also cover a feature-in-development for Edgy,
> partly as a heads-up "what's coming down the pike" and partly as a way
> of getting developers interested in helping deliver that new feature.

Agreed.  This may also be a good way to help inspire some kind folks to
document some of these features, since there are some shiny features that
aren't necessarily discoverable.

Some examples off the top of my head:

- The OEM installation mode (new in 5.10)
- Translating menu entries using Rosetta and language packs (new in 6.06)
- Booting from USB devices (new in 6.06)

Perhaps it would be a good idea to create a wiki page to pool ideas for
future editions of these various "<foo> of the week" categories.  I'd gladly
add new bullets there when I think of them, and someone could select an
interesting one from the list each week.

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 - mdz