If you're the maintainer of a non-minor KDE application please don't think that posting your release to kde-apps.org is sufficient. Consider also to post a nice announcement including what your application is about and the highlights of the release to the kde-announce mailing list. Many news editors and magazine writers only read kde-announce and don't visit kde-apps.org! As an example see LWN of last week: KDE v GNOME announces.
Outside KDE community the Freshmeat application index is the most important site to promote your application.
Don't Neglect kde-announce!
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IMHO instead of flooding kde-announce with this sort of thing, someone should just announce a kde-apps-announce list (if one doesn't exist already) on kde-announce and send all the application announcements there.
The KDE-Apps.org bridge idea is not a bad one either in my opinion.
Re: kde-apps-announce list
> someone should just announce a kde-apps-announce list
And what would be left on kde-announce list?
Only KDE releases itself?
Again, the problem is not that kde-annnounce is being flooded at the moment.
Thanks for the tip Beineri!
I always wondered why Konversation releases never make it to LWN.net
Bridge ?
What about making a bridge between kde-apps.org and kde-announce ML ?
For exemple, a radio button in the kde-apps form to allow the sending of a mail to the kde-annnounce mailing-list ?
Re: Bridge ?
And you think that would produce "nice announcements" which journalists would like to read?
To me this sounds quite
To me this sounds quite nice. It would spare me some time. I don't see a problem with the format if I know that what I prepend on the changelog will be send as an email to kde-announce, together with the description of my app. I will have to take care what I write, but shouldn't I do that anyway?
The web interface would need some changes though. At least a separated editfield for the newest entry of the changelog.