On the upcoming app release and a change in the announcement strategy

[Paul Brown]

On sábado, 30 de enero de 2021 14:37:01 (CET) Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> We stopped doing announcements for bugfix releases in 2019. Instead we have
> the monthly app updates for all apps. You recently started a discussion
> about changing that but it's fizzled out without conclusion.
> 

Exactly. We would want to finish that discussion and start acting on whatever 
conclusion we agree upon.

Note that I am not suggesting devs do anything different. This would affect only 
the public announcement side.

Cheers

Paul

> Jonathan
> 
> On Saturday, 30 January 2021, Paul Brown <paul.brown at kde.org> wrote:
> > Hello Fellow Promoers,
> > 
> > We recently received the list of "noteworthy" changes for the 20.12.3 apps
> > release:
> > 
> > https://phabricator.kde.org/P666#2746
> > 
> > I will pre-empt by saying that the cumulative correction of small bugs is
> > tremendously important and, over time, what makes using KDE software such
> 
> a
> 
> > satisfactory experience.
> > 
> > However, reporting on them in isolation to the public has proven to be
> > literally counterproductive. For one, putting the effort into writing an
> > announcement about these changes is far greater than any PR benefit we
> 
> derive
> 
> > from informing about fixes to bugs that most people won't even have ever
> > noticed.
> > 
> > Then there is the matter "follower fatigue", a real thing we have
> 
> experienced
> 
> > first-hand: this happens when we overpost and lose followers because we
> 
> are
> 
> > flooding their feeds with trivial things.
> > 
> > Just by posting this, we are not overposting, of course, but it is better
> 
> to
> 
> > have consistent criteria in which we post stuff that is useful and/or
> > interesting for our followers -- and this is neither.
> > 
> > Besides, we have a lot of stuff coming up worth reporting about: FOSDEM,
> 
> annual
> 
> > report, Plasma 5.21, new projects incorporated into KDE, collaborations
> 
> with
> 
> > other projects, etc..
> > 
> > Getting back to the apps announcements and the proposal supported by some
> > people to spacing app announcements more, I say we give this one pass  and
> > instead we take on the task of setting up a calendar for big app
> > announcements, like we do for Plasma.
> > 
> > My proposal is to do a big announcement for apps midway between Plasma
> 
> version
> 
> > announcements. That way we would have complementary tent-pole
> 
> announcements
> 
> > every two months and it places the next apps announcement somewhere
> 
> mid-April.
> 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Paul
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