I've sent a message to press@ - forgot to copy in bloodhound-dev but I'll do that after they reply.
Thanks for the suggestion Greg. - Joe On 24 January 2013 00:39, Greg Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >>> > >> > > > -- Joe Dreimann UX Designer | WANdisco <http://www.wandisco.com/> * * *Transform your software development department. Register for a free SVN HealthCheck <http://go.wandisco.com/HealthCheck-Sig.html> *
