On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Thomas/Marius, Like Thomas and Marius, I am +0 I'm curious to understand why you're not more thrilled by this :) > Do not even know DZone before your mail ! > > 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? > Sure, but there is surely too much sites that allow this. > > Or are you +0 because it's more work? > and yes, we all know this is an annoying job for the RM. > 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… > > WDYT? > Apart for some well known major sites that we may do manually, I think the best would be to only announce on those site that could be automated easily, and only when we have a script for that. > 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 > -- Denis Gervalle SOFTEC sa - CEO eGuilde sarl - CTO _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
