Eh, that schedule is more like guidelines. :)

But I'll make sure we have something. Can we do another announcement like https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/author-volunteers-needed-for-magazine-articles-for-fedora-38-release/79081 for final-release articles?

I have a draft in place. I need to confirm the URLs on the new website.

Get the the prerelease of any of our Editions from our project website

I wouldn't capitalize "Editions" in the above sentence. I don't believe it is a proper noun.

Likewise, there are a few places where you've used "Beta" that should probably be "beta". I think it should only be capitalized when it is used as part of a proper name (i.e., "Fedora Workstation 39 Beta"). Or in a section title if you are using title case. (Although, according to the guidelines that predate my time as an editor, we are supposed to use sentence case.)

Or, try one of our many different desktop variants, like KDE Plasma, Xfce, or Cinnamon) from Fedora Linux Spins.

s/variants,/variants (/

We often found ourselves in a situation where the only reasonable way forward was to forage ahead, even if we weren’t happy enough with the change for general users.

I think you mean forge ahead.

I keep telling her: really, you learn best when you’re right 80% of the time. Otherwise, you’re not getting enough of a challenge.

Shouldn't that be quoted? I.e.:

I keep telling her, "Really, you learn best when you’re right 80% of the time. Otherwise, you’re not getting enough of a challenge."

contact the Fedora QA team

There was a thread on discussion.fp.o suggesting that we switch to calling them the "Quality team".

... what’s new on Fedora Linux 39 Beta release ...

"... on X release ..." should probably be "... on the X release ...".

Other than that, there are a few sentences with (IMHO) too many commas. But that's probably not worth fussing over. 🙂

One last note: I set the article's slug to "https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-39-beta" because that is what @darknao had already used in a recent commit. I think it should really be "https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-39-beta". But it was easier for me to change it on this end.

Also, this article still needs a cover image. I think it is supposed to be the default background for the release. But I'm not sure where to get that from?

@glb @mattdm Where did the background for the feature image come from? We will need the svg to do the release announcement, eventually. (Just trying to look ahead)

I used dnf install --repo=fedora --relaesever=39 f39-backgrounds-base and GIMP to make it. I'll have to convert that to an SVG and upload it. (Or I could leave it in GIMP's native format to be sure the text isn't accidentally shifted in the version for the final release.)

The downloaded backgrounds are probably adequate unless we want the same cropping on the next image. I'm sure we can get it close. I'll leave it up to you. The GIMP format would be an anomaly in the GIT repo.

Well, I pushed it just before I saw your last reply. I guess it is up to you whether you accept the PR or not though. 🙂

Oh what the heck. We know what we're doing,...right? :-)