Yes, indeed. Dot doesn't reach enough users. Most people reading it are already somehow involved, I guess. Having some press releases for wider audience would be good. Heise and Golem would be two good examples for Germany, for US or international audience we could try Cnet. Maybe we can also get an announcement slashdotted, and of course don't forget to include this in the announcements on Google+, Facebook whatever we have.
On 06/11/2012 11:04 PM, Sebastian Dörner wrote: > Maybe dot has not enough range to attract new contributors and we > should try to get this into distribution-specific blogs and maybe > typical IT news sites. I only know the German heise.de which might be > suitable, but there are certainly ones for other languages as well. > > On 11 June 2012 16:09, Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]> wrote: >> OK here is what I wrote, feel free to amend and improve: >> >> The KDE Testing Team will carry on testing this Beta 2. The testing effort >> started with KDE4.9 Beta 1 last week and 68 bugs reports were opened or >> confirmed for Beta 1, 24 of which were closed, most having been fixed. For >> example some regressions in QML applets were identified and fixed. A few >> bugs were also corrected without anyone opening a bug report. Newcomers >> joined the team and are doing a great job, a big thank! >> We would be happy to include more people and you will be more than welcome >> to join: install the Beta 2 from your distribution and choose an area of >> testing, all details are available at >> http://community.kde.org/Getinvolved/Testing/Beta. We are also available on >> IRC Freenode in the #kde-testing channel. >> >> >> Anne-Marie >> >> On 06/11/2012 04:16 PM, Carl Symons wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:24 AM, Anne-Marie Mahfouf >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Is there a Dot article to announce the Beta 2? If it is the case, can we >>>> add >>>> something about testing, a short summary on what has been done so far and >>>> still try to find new testers (especially for functional tests). >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>> Anne-Marie >>>> >>> Definitely can be an article about Beta 2. This is a good idea, even >>> if the main purpose is an update on testing. >>> >>> sebas puts those together. If someone from the quality team will >>> compose what should be added, then it can be worked in as it was in >>> the Beta 1 announcement. >>> >>> Carl >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. >>> >>> Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set >>> digest on or temporarily stop your subscription. >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Kde-testing mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-testing > _______________________________________________ > Kde-testing mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-testing
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