I would recommend asking press@ what channels are available for pidlings. They may be able to post to the main ASF twitter account. On Jan 23, 2013 6:07 AM, "Gary Martin" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Excellent. The suggested template for the announce message mentions the > Trac project and so I hope that it is appropriate for all places we could > want to announce it. > > As for the twitter account, it might be nice if this was also something > that could effectively be done by a release manager. I'm not so much > thinking of sharing the account details (although it could be useful to > share those between more PPMC members just in case). I would probably > prefer to just be able to send an email or even get the message > automatically triggered by the announcement appearing on announce@ > > The wikipedia idea sounds good too - certainly worth investigation. I > would hope that copying the Trac entries and then updating as we officially > gain specific features should not be too controversial. The guidelines for > wikipedia discourage writing about anything you are directly involved in - > even so, it would probably be better not to hide association of the project > with such an addition. > > Cheers, > Gary > > > On 23/01/13 08:37, Joe Dreimann wrote: > >> Ok, I will add trac-users@ to the list of places where we should >> announce releases. >> >> I was hoping to add some more places though. Ryan set up an Ohloh profile >> in the past [1], which may help people stumble across Bloodhound. I will >> try and add it to the Wikepdia page comparing ticketing systems [2] (it >> seems different enough to Trac in the features table). >> >> Are there mailing lists of python users that may be relevant? >> Specific forums or blogs? Olemis has been doing some promotion that way >> in the past [3], which is great in my opinion. >> >> - Joe >> >> >> [1] >> http://www.ohloh.net/p/apache-**bloodhound<http://www.ohloh.net/p/apache-bloodhound> >> [2] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/**wiki/Comparison_of_issue-** >> tracking_systems<http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_issue-tracking_systems> >> [3] http://simelo-es.blogspot.co.**uk/2012/08/tuxinfo-50-apache-** >> bloodhound-un-fork-de_12.html<http://simelo-es.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/tuxinfo-50-apache-bloodhound-un-fork-de_12.html> >> ________________________ >> @jdreimann - Twitter >> Sent from my phone >> >> On 23 Jan 2013, at 07:07, Greg Stein <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Jan 23, 2013 1:20 AM, "Ryan Ollos" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Olemis Lang <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> [...] >>>>> >>>>> FWIW , I do . I wonder whether I've also seen rjollos around ... or >>>>> maybe it's just a figment of my imagination ? It's just that I confuse >>>>> trac-users@... with trac-dev@... >>>>> >>>> You are not imagining. I follow both lists and I haven't seem any >>>> negative >>>> reactions to mentions of Bloodhound. I would be very surprised to see >>>> negative reactions since we push fixes back to Trac, etc... >>>> >>> I think that as long as the project gives due credit back to Trac, then >>> we >>> can use trac-users. We are not a corporation, but another OSS project. >>> People generally get bothered about corps, not other open source >>> projects. >>> >>> *IF* a problem arises, then we can discuss with the trac-users community, >>> on how to amend the process. >>> >>> At this point, given that plugins/etc announce there, and that a prior >>> announced didn't generate an uproar, it looks like a great forum. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> -g >>> >> >
