On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Neil Conway wrote: > "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > > >> 0. As you say, make it known to the public. Have people test their > >> in-development applications using a beta. > > > > and how do you propose we do that? I think this is the hard part > > (1) Make the beta more obvious on the website, as we've already > discussed > > (2) Make a freshmeat.net release announcement for _each_ beta, RC, and > of course the final release (we totally missed this during 7.4). > There are probably other software release announcement sites we > could inform.
Damn, I keep forgetting freshmeat.net altogether ... will get that one during the day tomorrow ... > (3) Is it worth trying to get some technical press coverage for the > start of the beta process? I don't mean on PHB-oriented sites like > ComputerWorld or ZdNet where we need to do the work of getting a > press release prepared, but OSNews or Slashdot just need a link to > the release notes and the source tarballs. I think so ... just a heads up to tell ppl that we are heading into the final stretch for the next release, and testing would be 'a good thing' ... ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
