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== What is an enhancement? ==

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~~It's sometimes easy~~ to ~~mistake new packages, or enhancements, for features. Features have~~ a ~~very specific definition, but here are some questions to ask yourself before engaging~~ the feature process.

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Enhancements are:

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1. Less documented improvements to a Fedora release which do follow the feature process and do not fit the feature definition below.

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~~1. Is this change very visible to end users?~~

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2. Added to the release summary by anyone under heading of Other Enhancements. The release summary for each release lives in the following namespace: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/<release number>/ReleaseSummary

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* In this case "end user" means "someone in the ~~audience for this change," which could be desktop users, developers, or system administrators~~.

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2. ~~Does this change require intervention?~~

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* This might be a configuration file format change, or something else that will perturb unsuspecting end users.

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* A change that requires a very simple intervention to ~~revert behavior is not necessarily a feature~~.

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~~3. Is this something that will interest the lay press?~~

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* The ~~lay press~~ in ~~this case includes Linux-oriented sites~~.

== Is ''<XXX>'' a feature? ==

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