Re: Tomcat website, RSS and social media

On 08/06/2026 08:45, Thorsten Heit wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> actually new releases of Tomcat, Tomcat Connector etc. are announced on 
> the mailing list and posted on the website.
> 
> What do you think of providing an RSS feed for announcements, website 
> updates etc.?

If it can be automated, sure.

> OTOH there's a Twitter/X account which doesn't seem to be active 
> (anymore?). The latest post is from July '24 and refers to the 
> availability of Tomcat 11.0.0-M22... Although I don't use Twitter 
> (anymore) I'd appreciate if such announcements are also posted there :-)

I used to announce Tomcat releases on Twitter. I haven't done that since 
July '24 and have no plans to restart that process.

> Regarding social media:
> I'd also appreciate if there'd be an account in the Fediverse (which is 
> becoming more and more popular) where such annoucements, updates, news, 
> whatever are posted.

That should be doable.

> What do you think?
> 
> 
> 
> BTW:
> Where can I report errors on the website? I just found out that the link 
> to the blog under "Media" doesn't work: It links to https:// 
> blogs.apache.org/tomcat that redirects to https://tomcat.apache.org/ 
> blog/ which results in a 404/Not Found.

Here is fine.

Let me see what happened with the blogs link. I thought the content got 
migrated somewhere...

Mark