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List:       kde-release-team
Subject:    Re: promoting the release
From:       Ben Cooksley <bcooksley () kde ! org>
Date:       2013-08-17 8:45:50
Message-ID: CA+XidOHVXpiT8GU+8=4xhfu=huW1fud-FBTkqnV54xJXUbhKFg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin@kde.org> wrote:
> On Friday 16 August 2013 17:21:57 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
>> On Wednesday 14 August 2013 18:44:34 Martin Graesslin wrote:
>> > On Wednesday 14 August 2013 18:40:16 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
>> > > Heya,
>> > >
>> > > I noticed that when we promote the release over social media (dunno who
>> > > does this) we link to the kde.org announcement. While that's cool and
>> > > all, I think it would be better to link to the dot: there, people can
>> > > leave comments and we can get a more lively place for ppl to go to when
>> > > clicking links.
>> > >
>> > > What do we think?
>> >
>> > Sounds good, but there is not yet a story on the dot to link to :-)
>>
>> Sure there was, at least - I was coordinating with the release dude to make
>> sure both would be ready at the same time... And the story was already
>> published (but not on the front page) at the time the kde.org page was still
>> full of 'work in progress' hints...
> I don't know, but when I wrote that mail I went before to:
> * kde.org - announcement linked
> * dot.kde.org - nothing
> * kdenews.org - nothing
>
> Given the timestamps of the mails it was at least half an hour after Albert
> pushed the announcement.
>
> So that looks to me like there was some coordination missing or the dot taking
> too long to publish the page (I had seen cases when one news was on dko but
> not on kdenews.org).

That is quite unusual - dot.kde.org and kdenews.org are the same site.
kdenews.org is just another alias of dot.kde.org.

If you see this again, please let me know so I can take a look.

>
> Anyway when I first shared the news on G+ there was no link on dot I could
> share ;-) I honestly thought that there won't be one.
>
> Cheers
> Martin

Regards,
Ben

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