Re: Tomcat website, RSS and social media

Mark Thomas <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:46:11 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 10/06/2026 15:29, Christopher Schultz wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> On 6/8/26 4:42 AM, Mark Thomas wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 08/06/2026 09:38, Mark Thomas wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> I've dropped the Twitter and the Blogs link. I left YouTube as there 
>> is more recent Tomcat content from Community over Code conferences we 
>> could/should add to that channel.
> 
> Hmm, I thought either Rich or Brian handled that. I know for sure that I 
> have never posted anything to YouTube, and yet it gets there. Jean- 
> Frederic?

The CoC content is there on the ASF channel.

I have a vague memory of doing something to add it to the Tomcat channel.

Mark