Re: Tomcat website, RSS and social media

On 08/06/2026 09:31, Mark Thomas wrote:
> 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...

Here it is:
https://blogsarchive.apache.org/#tomcat

The content is pretty dated. We should probably drop the blogs link - at 
least from the navigation bar anyway.

If someone wanted to start producing content, that would be a good way 
to contribute to the project.

Mark