Improving Communication

[Allen Winter]

On Tuesday 09 September 2008 17:27:15 Dominik Haumann wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Allen Winter wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > I think we do a terrible job  of keeping the community informed about
> > approaching milestones.
> >
> > Let's brainstorm about ways we can provide consistent, timely
> > reminders/nags. The KDE community should except on-time notifications in
> > a known set of channels.
> >
> > What channels?  Currently we send email to k-c-d and/or k-d mailing
> > lists. Are these the right channels?  Should we use an RSS feed?  others?
> 
> Isn't the most important one missing? kde-cvs-announce. Once there was a 
> time where all contributors with an svn account were subscribed. I guess 
> that's still the case? But it's really silent. A perfect place for those 
> announcements though.
> 

I tried sending one release announcement to kde-cvs-announce.
Where it waited in moderation and never saw the light of day.

We could ask the sysadmins to whitelist a few of the release team members.
I think I asked about whitelisting my email  address many months ago, but I don't recall
why that never happened.

If the sysadmins would give us some ftp space, we could probably setup
a remote calendar there.  And I think (hope) KOrganizer still works with ftp calendars.
I asked for ftp space on the KDE servers a few days ago but haven't heard back.