On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:15 PM, John J. McDonough <wb8rcr@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 11:19 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 04:31:17PM -0400, John J. McDonough wrote: >> > I have removed the "closed" templates from all the beats and reset the >> > beats table at > (clip) >> John, are you planning a similar announcement for the devel-announce >> list? > > Paul > > Step 2 is to email previous beat writers directly. This will pick up > those few folks who earlier took beats but aren't on the docs list, and > perhaps light a fire under those who just haven't found one of them > round tuit thingies. > > Step 3 is to recruit new beat writers, through a posting to devel, but > also perhaps a few direct emails to candidates I identify by studying > review requests. Yeah, sneaky, I know, but it seems like someone who > has been pushing a lot of, say, Sci/Tech packages might be interested in > bragging on them. (Although we have a physicist already in our midst who > might have an interest in that specific task!) > > The dev posting has to have quite a different flavor. Here we are > mostly trying to incent folks relatively new to the project to roll up > their sleeves. In dev I suspect we are mostly trying to talk > contributors, perhaps quite experienced contributors, into bragging > about their work. That comes about the same time we are reminding the > developers that we are getting the alpha one-page ready and they might > want to put a little shine on their feature pages. Brilliant summary, John -- thank you for taking the time to write it! And thanks for the reminder -- I confess I don't track this work as often as I used to when I was really sleeves-up all the time in the Docs team. You answered all the questions lurking in my noggin, thanks. Paul -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
