I have several suggestions about the release notes. Tkinter has disappeared. Tk is not installed by default. I believe these are significant changes that need to be documented in the release notes. I have several applications that don't work anymore because of this. (I am reporting this separately as a bug.) Some of the things that appeared in the release announcement such as gcc defaulting to gcc 3.2 should be in the release notes. There are very important differences between older gcc releases and 3.1/3.2. I'd suggest that someone review the high points of the new release mentioned in the release announcement and make sure that they are also mentioned in the release notes. /usr/bin/python is now python 2.2. I think this is a very significant change and deserves special mention. I think this, like gcc 3.2 and perl 5.8, deserves mention directly in the release announcement itself. There seemed to be some unprintable characters in the release notes as displayed during installation. I'm sorry that I can't reproduce this. I saw, among other things, a glyph that was approximately +---+ |0 0| |0 7| +---+ where a "g" should have been. This character reminds me of what uniprint (?) generates when it finds a non-renderable Unicode value. This would be the value for CTRL-g. I couldn't find any instances of CTRL-g in the RELEASE-NOTES file on disc1. I don't know what the source of the release notes file displayed during installation is, however. I'm sure it isn't that fle, though!
The unprintable characters has to do with the release notes not being properly utf8-ified... there's another bug about that and msw is working on it. Assigning to John for the various suggestions for additions
As per bug 70896, Tkinter will be in the next release after all. There definitely seems to be a wave of sentiment against keeping it around much longer, though. If the decision to restore Tkinter is temporary and it will be pulled in a future release, I'd like to suggest that the intention to deprecate Tk and Tkinter be mentioned clearly in the release notes. That will give people time to migrate their existing Tk/Tkinter infrastructure to something new in time for the first RedHat release (presumably 9) that doesn't include Tk/Tkinter. I still think that Tk and Tkinter should not be deprecated, but if they are going to be, let's not have the decision be made silently. A lot of code out there uses these packages. Even if there are good alternatives on Linux and on RedHat Linux in particular, there are other considerations. I've stated my case in bug 70896 though, so I won't repeat it here.
Thank you for your suggestions. We are adding entries and bulleted feature lists for the packages you mentioned and will be outlining new features for other major packages as well. Thanks again.