On 15.07.2007 20:08, Thomas Chung wrote:
On 7/15/07, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora(a)leemhuis.info> wrote:
> On 12.07.2007 20:32, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> just a heads up; the current plan is to officially announce EPEL on
>>> Thursday, 26th 2007. Yes, that's one week later that estimated last
>>> week, as we need a bit more time to fix all broken deps before the
>>> announcement.
>>>
>>> While at it: Note that new and updated packages for EPEL will go to into
>>> EPEL-testing repo after the announcement (¹) and get moved to the proper
>>> repo at a later point of time. The plan is to do the move from testing
>>> to the proper repo in parallel with the "quarterly" EL-releases
like
>>> RHEL 5.1.
>> Have you folks decided where and how the announcements should be send?
>> Fedora announce list
>> RHEL 4 and 5 lists and announce lists
>> Red Hat press release
>> Other news sites
>> This might be a useful reference:
>>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/SpreadingNews
> Karsten, what is our plan exactly? I'd really like to see some
> announcement got out -- it doesn't have to be businesswire, but some
> linux-sites will likely pick it up if we just send some sane stuff in
> mail in their direction.
As long as we include the announcement in our FWN, it should be picked
by most popular Linux news sites.
...and likely only Fedora users will read the FWN -- but those are not
exactly EPEL's target audience. Heck, and even some of the Fedorians
might miss it, as the FWN are quite long (/me wonders if it should have
a "summary" in the beginning for those that that just want a quick
overview -- but that's a different topic).
I think EPEL deserves a real announcement (e.g. like a Fedora release,
but a bit smaller).
CU
thl