EPEL announcement planed for 20070726

[Thomas Chung]

On 7/15/07, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at 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.
>
> CU
> knurd

As long as we include the announcement in our FWN, it should be picked
by most popular Linux news sites.
Regards,
-- 
Thomas Chung
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung