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. Thanks and best regards Mario [1] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-announce _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
