14 Sep
2012
14 Sep
'12
6:45 a.m.
-0...
On 09/13/2012 03:06 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi Thomas/Marius,
I'm curious to understand why you're not more thrilled by this :)
The other sites where we publish release announcements are better suited
for such announcements:
- WikiMatrix is exactly about wikis, and we're just keeping up to date
the information
- FreeCode (formerly FreshMeat) is specifically about new software
release announcements
- Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and we're just keeping up to date the
latest release information
- OW2 is our parent organization, and we're supposed to post release
announcements in there
DZone is mainly a link sharing site, links to interesting content.
FreeCode is designed especially for release announcements, so we should
stick to that. It would be good for general advertisement of XWiki, though.
We need the maximum tech marketing to spread the word
about XWiki, and IMO we should publish to the maximum number of web sites that accept tech
announcements. Don't you agree with this?
I agree, but this site isn't quite about tech announcements. We could
say that release notes are "interesting links to share".
Or are you +0 because it's more work?
I agree that if we add, say 5-10 more web sites to update, it's going to be a lot of
work for the RM since this is manual work mostly (even though I think Sergiu tried to
automate it but I'm not sure about the result/state). So I think that the best would
be that each active committer takes 1 or 2 web sites and becomes responsible for updating
them when there's a release (the RM will just need to ping them and their name would
be part of the Release Plan documentation). I've personally been doing it regularly
for wikimatrix and it's no big deal.
Well, as long as it's HTTP, anything can be automated, it just takes
some time to write the right script for that.
An alternative would be to have a MM (Marketing
Manager ;)) in charge of updating all external sites…
I don't like this idea that much. Who's going to do that?
WDYT?
Thanks
-Vincent
On Sep 13, 2012, at 8:56 AM, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
> +0
>
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> When we release a new version we publish the announcement in several places
(wikimatrix, freshmeat, wikipedia). I'd like to propose that we add DZone too.
>>
>> For example I've just seen that GateIn 3.4 has been announced there:
http://www.dzone.com/links/gatein_34_is_released.html
>>
>> DZone is very well know and I think it would help spread the word even more about
XWiki.
>>
>> So here's my +1 to add DZone to the list of sites to update when we release.
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
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Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/