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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: Why is no one posting to Freshmeat?
From:       Mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date:       1999-08-28 3:45:21
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Yep, mhk is looking at this also (the post to kde-user came a day after a CC to
kde-devel ;-) The problem right now is with automatic submission to fm. None of
us have been able to figure how that can be automated (it is not a simple CGI
deal). 

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Mosfet wrote:
> 
> > Something I have noticed for a long time is that it does not seem many of the
> > KDE coders out there post their applications on Freshmeat. There are a ton of
> > new releases of KDE applications, but they just go onto the ftp site and are
> > not announced elsewhere. IMHO this is a waste, since many, many Linux users
> > only use places like Freshmeat to learn about new applications. 
> > 
> > So app developers, when you write new applications for KDE1.x or make new
> > releases you may really want to announce them at www.freshmeat.net. They will
> > get much more visibility. And no, I do not work for Freshmeat or Andover, I am
> > just kindof bummed that I never see most of the KDE stuff there ;-) 
> > 
> 
> I was thinking about this the other day (and I think I even proposed this
> once) that the simplest way to do right now is to modify the script that
> publishes the releases to kde-announce automatically when apps are moved
> from Incoming to the final residing dir, so that notices are sent to
> Freshmeat too. 
> 
> I'll try to look in how freshmeat requires submissions to be done.
> 
> A thing necessary would be to use more often the cvs2tgz script that Taj
> so gently wrote for us. At least once a month. Almost each app in the CVS
> gets heavily modified in the course of 2-3 weeks.
> 
> Hmmm? What do you think?
> 
> Cristian
> 
> 
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