It would probably help for you to post to the main planet. I didn’t see this post until a week after it was posted. (Nov 11)

* Thank you for the team’s hard work on so many of the features that I and millions of other people use every day. The Linux desktop everywhere (not just Fedora) is so much better as to be almost unrecognizable from where it was when I started using it in 1997.

* I use hellotxt.com or ping.fm to keep my feeds (Twitter, identi.ca, et al.) in sync. I’m sure a lot of people who are on “free as in freedom” services will appreciate anything you do to improve presence there, but I agree that we want to reach further than that crowd, and you almost certainly need Twitter to do so.

* Having team input early and often into our scheduling will be really helpful. I’d be interested in setting up additional slots for community members interested in constructive participation to help with testing and review, whether it was desktop-dedicated Test Days, UI (p)review, or what have you. Wouldn’t it be cool if we had some way of remotely gathering usability data based on some of the stuff Mo and Ray have hooked up?

* I’m glad that some of the team will be at the Toronto FUDCon where we can make some headway on making Fedora better for more of its audience. There are some real improvements to be made with the way we manage our development branch(es) and issue updates — among others — that need input from affected parties.

* Get a identi.ca account and feed from that to twitter

* Make sure all Fedora Desktop team members are accessible from the primary feed at http://planet.fedoraproject.org so that members are not required to subscribe to a special elite feed to keep track of the changes

* Post the intention to change something before doing them, leaving room for feedback

* When you do finalize on the changes, please document them in the release notes and post to fedora-desktop list about it. It would be useful to get some transparency on the rationale behind the changes and who is making them.

* Work within the schedule as defined by the Fedora project instead of making changes at the last minute. If there is a need to make polish changes, it should figure into the schedule prominently. Changes at the last minute is problematic for a lot of the other teams including the docs team and L10N team which has to document and translate them as well as the marketing team and websites team which will depend on the screenshots and screencasts to match what is actually included.

* Feedback you receive may be opinionated and perhaps at times seemingly unreasonable but it is not a sign of disrespect or a doubt of the skills and intentions but rather a interest and desire to participate.

Take from it, what you will.

That said, awesome work!