Beats are now open
Paul Frields
stickster at gmail.com
Tue Jul 27 18:48:12 UTC 2010
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:15 PM, John J. McDonough <wb8rcr at arrl.net> 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
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