Re: Preparing the KDevelop 5.4.0 announcement (Monday, August 5th)

On lunes, 22 de julio de 2019 18:40:10 (CEST) Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Hi promotion experts,

Hello Friedrich,

> disclaimer: we are short on resources over in KDevelop camp currently, so
> trying to get the most done with min work.

Don't worry. We'll try and make the best of it.

> As you may see, we today managed to push out the Beta 1 of KDevelop 5.4. The
> announcement is rather short, only hinting to what is inside:
>     https://www.kdevelop.org/news/kdevelop-5380-released
> 
> Idea is this should be fine here, as for one the Beta mainly targets real
> testers to test it (that's why also there is an AppImage), packagers to
> start adjusting/preparing their packaging, and translators to see what they
> are translating (again AppImage as tool).
> And everyone else should be just teased, and get the desire to learn more on
> the release, if they take notice. Do people work that way? :P

We can tease, yes. But, you are right, the general public should focus on the 
production version. 

> In any case, for the 5.4.0 release then we hope to do a detailed
> announcement, incl. pictures, for any splash possible with what was done.
> We just started to collect some material on the mailinglist trying to
> remember what actually went in and what is interesting. That material I
> would see to transform into some pad or wiki page til upcoming WE, then
> draft something to have you be inspired where things can be done wrong and
> what to do instead :)
> 
> Rough idea would be to follow what we did e.g. for 5.3:
>     https://www.kdevelop.org/news/kdevelop-530-released
> 
> Who of you may be around next week, so we can work on this together? Where
> to meet?

I'm here and interested. I would like to be able to help you edit the text of 
the announcement. I would like to help make sure it has the widest appeal 
possible.

I would also like to announce the release on social media and in forums where 
developers hang out (maybe on Reddit and Hacker News). As my knowledge of 
KDevelop is not terribly comprehensive, I may have to ask you lots of 
questions to do all this. I hope that is okay.

Cheers

Paul
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