On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sep 13, 2012, at 11:16 AM, Denis Gervalle <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 ! > > that's strange, it's one of the very famous and well known sites for news > and especially developer news… > > >> 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. > > I don't agree with this because our goal is not publish at unknown web > sites but to focus on the well known sites even if we have to do it > manually. This has may more impact than automating the publication on web > sites that nobody uses ;) > Where have I proposed to publish so widely ? I was talking about your proposal and potential similar proposal from other devs. > Of course if they are both well known and automatable it's a big win :) > but I don't think we should rule out some known web sites because we can't > automate them. > > Maybe we should start by brainstorming about web sites where we could > announce on here. > I am afraid you will be starting a very long, interminable thread ! You cannot compare DZone and Wikipedia IMO. The second is really well-known, without anyone to say the contrary. On the other hand, DZone is debatable, and it will be difficult to get a final decision for it, simply +0 as it happen here. This is why I propose the automation for the more debatable sites. > > I'll start a thread for that. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
