On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Thomas/Marius, > > I'm curious to understand why you're not more thrilled by this :) > > 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? > > Or are you +0 because it's more work?
More work and I never go to DZone (I even barely know it except by name) so I have a hard time imagining that doing announcements there is mandatory. > > 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. > > An alternative would be to have a MM (Marketing Manager ;)) in charge of > updating all external sites… That would surely be nice but I doubt it would work for long if not done by the Release Manager. If they have a REST service or something like that to add it to the release script that's fine. > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > On Sep 13, 2012, at 8:56 AM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> +0 >> >> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> devs mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> >> >> >> -- >> Thomas Mortagne >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
