On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 11:37:33 AM Mario Fux wrote: > Proposal: To make the release and announcement process smoother and less > redundant work and to reach more people we should formalize and script some > (more) of the processes involved. > > Details: > In the last weeks and months we had a plethora of releases and > announcements. Just take a look at the dot or the kde-announce mailing list > [1]. And this number of releases, announcements and promo work will even > more increase with a growing KDE community with new projects coming to us > and being created within KDE. So we need to do something about it. > > One idea are the Sigma release days/weeks proposed in another emails where > we try to focus timewise. But we could and should as well formalize the > processes that lead the way to a release and finally the announcement of > this release. A first step could be the write it down in a simple way (not > a whole book but a simple check list) and at a central and well-known place > how projects, suites and single apps could get a release and some > announcement of this. > > An example for this could be (not yet complete and thus WIP): > - Use the release scripts from <repo> to create the tarball and l10n stuff > - Upload it to <place> and file a sysadmin ticket to publish it on <siteA> > - Fill in the form on <siteB> with a list of links to blog posts about this > release, a link to fixed bugs, 5 to 10 lines of text about what's new and > important and a list of screenshots or pictures > - Check the box that everything is green on build.kde.org for your software > - Propose a release date or week > - Name a single contact person for the promo team > > Next steps: > - Check and/or write these release scripts. > - Check and/or write these l10n scripts. > - Agree on a formal process for release and announcement > - Work on the form mentioned above. > - Write down what happens on a release day from the promo perspective > > Now please tell me your opinion in a short, constructive and polite way. > Details can be discussed in Randa and/or at Akademy. So let's concentrate on > the bigger ideas.
Si, Señor Zorro Overall...good plan. Details and refinement at Randa or Akademy. Thank you for your attention to this. Carl > > Thanks and best regards > Mario > > [1] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-announce > _______________________________________________ > kde-community mailing list > kde-community@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community