I think it'd be good publicity of Solr happenings to have our "news" (really all posts) relayed to the Solr LinkedIn Group https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1557747/ (5,819 members at present) Since posts need to come from someone with an account, this can't really be automated. I think the simplest thing is: (1) update our GitHub PR template for solr-site to suggest that the contributor share the info to the LinkedIn group (with URL). (2) Solr release wizard suggests the same for the RM as a post release task. If they can't or don't want to, they can ask another community member to do this.
~ David Smiley Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
