Re: Publicizing MacPorts

2021-04-20 Thread Andrew Janke
On 4/19/21 3:54 PM, Craig Treleaven wrote: > >> On Apr 19, 2021, at 2:51 PM, Jason Liu > > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 1:25 PM Craig Treleaven > > wrote: >> >> Also, why should we consider that MacPorts is in competition with

Re: Publicizing MacPorts

2021-04-20 Thread Rainer Müller
On 20/04/2021 12.40, Steven Smith wrote: That’s begging the question of an effective communications strategy. A distributed model of random volunteers is perfect for aggregating git commits. It’s highly ineffective at communicating important news from that organization. If MacPorts wants to

Re: Publicizing MacPorts

2021-04-20 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 at 12:41, Steven Smith wrote: > > > What Ryan is trying to say is that "MacPorts" is in fact just a set of > > random volunteer contributors > > That’s begging the question of an effective communications strategy. A > distributed model of random volunteers is perfect for

Re: Publicizing MacPorts

2021-04-20 Thread Steven Smith
> What Ryan is trying to say is that "MacPorts" is in fact just a set of > random volunteer contributors That’s begging the question of an effective communications strategy. A distributed model of random volunteers is perfect for aggregating git commits. It’s highly ineffective at communicating

Re: Publicizing MacPorts

2021-04-20 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 at 15:14, Steven Smith wrote: > > > If you have contacts to tech reporters, please use them. I don't have any. > > If Ars Technica or any other news site wants to cover MacPorts, they can do > > that any time. > > This is the wrong attitude. > > MacPorts must tell them, not