[kde-promo] 4.9 Beta 2 release announcement?

[Anne-Marie Mahfouf]

On 06/11/2012 11:04 PM, Sebastian Dörner wrote:
> Maybe dot has not enough range to attract new contributors and we
> should try to get this into distribution-specific blogs and maybe
> typical IT news sites. I only know the German heise.de which might be
> suitable, but there are certainly ones for other languages as well.
>
> On 11 June 2012 16:09, Anne-Marie Mahfouf<annemarie.mahfouf at free.fr>  wrote:
>> OK here is what I wrote, feel free to amend and improve:
>>
>> The KDE Testing Team will carry on testing this Beta 2. The testing effort
>> started with KDE4.9 Beta 1 last week and 68 bugs reports were opened or
>> confirmed for Beta 1, 24 of which were closed, most having been fixed.  For
>> example some regressions in QML applets were identified and fixed. A few
>> bugs were also corrected without anyone opening a bug report. Newcomers
>> joined the team and are doing a great job, a big thank!
>> We would be happy to include more people and you will be more than welcome
>> to join: install the Beta 2 from your distribution and choose an area of
>> testing, all details are available at
>> http://community.kde.org/Getinvolved/Testing/Beta. We are also available on
>> IRC Freenode in the #kde-testing channel.
>>
>>
>> Anne-Marie
>>
>> On 06/11/2012 04:16 PM, Carl Symons wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:24 AM, Anne-Marie Mahfouf
>>> <annemarie.mahfouf at free.fr>    wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a Dot article to announce the Beta 2? If it is the case, can we
>>>> add
>>>> something about testing, a short summary on what has been done so far and
>>>> still try to find new testers (especially for functional tests).
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Anne-Marie
>>>>
>>> Definitely can be an article about Beta 2. This is a good idea, even
>>> if the main purpose is an update on testing.
>>>
>>> sebas puts those together. If someone from the quality team will
>>> compose what should be added, then it can be worked in as it was in
>>> the Beta 1 announcement.
>>>
>>> Carl
>>>
I can translate to French and submit to a few French Linux sites. I 
blogged twice already on Planet KDE and forwarded to Google + but 
someone with wider audience should do this as well probably.

Should I submit the text I wrote to promo? Are you all happy with it?

Anne-Marie