Improving Communication

[Allen Winter]

On Thursday 11 September 2008 13:18:46 Matt Rogers wrote:
> 
> On Sep 11, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Allen Winter wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> yes, we're quite busy, and not everybody there can do things like set  
> up FTP space, etc.

Sorry, didn't mean to sound accusatory.
Just pointing out that I did ask for ftp space and I'm waiting to hear back.

Probably my request should be changed to "ftp space for the release team's use"