On 20 Mar 2014, at 09:11, Martijn Coppoolse <li...@martijn.coppoolse.com> wrote:
> On 19-3-2014 18:28, Ron Wilson wrote: >> Does fossil need a G+ page (or FB page, or AOL page, for that >> matter) where that type of thing can be posted? i, for one, wouldn't >> mind manning a G+ community. > > I don't think Fossil *needs* a Google+ page; but it's always an extra channel > for Fossil users. I’m afraid social media presence, from someone with a nontrivial number of followers, is something that is needed these days to gain any traction. >> (Or is there perhaps one i've missed so far? A cursory search >> revealed none.) >> >> There is also freecode.com <http://freecode.com>. Fossil has a listing >> there, but it is out of date. >> (http://freecode.com/projects/fossil) > > Does anybody know who the maintainer is? I happen to know. It’s me and DRH for the moment, according to Freecode. If someone wants, I can give write rights to that listing to more people here. > Freecode seems to have an API, and so do Google+ and Facebook. It should be > feasible to write a script that parses the downloads page for new versions, > and publish the new version (including "what's new") to those pages, no? No. Fossil announcements come in a structured list format, that is pretty long. Freecode announcements need to be just a few plain text sentences. There is no automated way to do this. > That could make it easier to avoid forgetting a new release. Or we could just make sure it is done in the new release thread. Especially if we would collectively prepare a good release announcement. Kind regards, Remigiusz Modrzejewski _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
