[kde-promo] 4.9 Beta 2 release announcement?

[Sebastian Dörner]

On 12 June 2012 08:17, Anne-Marie Mahfouf <annemarie.mahfouf at free.fr> wrote:
> 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?
lgtm
>
> Anne-Marie
>
>
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