Re: [DISCUSS] Tweets from ApacheApex handle

2017-02-05 Thread Amol Kekre
Thomas, The proposal is for credentials to remain in PMC, and in-effect committers sending a request to tweet. Here some relevant advice on do's and don'ts from ASF for social media. I have pasted it as is. - Feel free to share stories about your project, whether they come from the

Re: [DISCUSS] Tweets from ApacheApex handle

2017-02-05 Thread Thomas Weise
The link that I provided gives context about how projects overall work. I find that useful to understand before embarking into further discussion. And I also found some more guidance regarding social media activity: http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/socialmedia My preference is that the

Re: [DISCUSS] Tweets from ApacheApex handle

2017-02-02 Thread Pramod Immaneni
I prefer option 2 at least till there is a critical mass of social activity and awareness happening outside around apex that we don't need to tweet actively on the community page. Thanks On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Amol Kekre wrote: > Thomas, > The discussion is not

Re: [DISCUSS] Tweets from ApacheApex handle

2017-02-02 Thread Amol Kekre
Thomas, The discussion is not about handle being operated outside PMC. It is perfectly fine to have handle credentials accessible to only PMC members. I started this discussion to get Apex community opinion on guidelines on what gets tweeted. The ASF does not have a formal guideline on twitter. So

Re: [DISCUSS] Tweets from ApacheApex handle

2017-02-01 Thread Thomas Weise
Note this is follow-up from a previous discussion on the PMC list. I think the decision on activity for the ApacheApex handle should be with the PMC and the handle should be operated by PMC members. See http://apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html for more context about roles and

Re: [DISCUSS] Tweets from ApacheApex handle

2017-02-01 Thread Ashwin Chandra Putta
+1 I strongly agree since the community is growing. As a community, we need to be able to publish updates and relevant content to followers. All committers having access to publish tweets makes community inclusive. Regards, Ashwin. On Feb 1, 2017 4:43 PM, "Amol Kekre"

[DISCUSS] Tweets from ApacheApex handle

2017-02-01 Thread Amol Kekre
I want to see what the community feels about posting tweets on ApacheApex handle. My thoughts are that the committers should have the right to post a tweek on ApacheApex. For contributors and anyone else, we could have a mechanism where they request it on dev@apex.apache.org and a committer can