A discussion about receiving updates on major Discourse releases is underway. sigurdur didn’t receive an email about Discourse 1.0 stable and is looking for a “public announcement” mailing list. codinghorror suggests following the Twitter account for updates. sam proposes creating an announcements category on the forum, but codinghorror thinks Twitter is sufficient.
sigurdur expresses concerns about relying on Twitter, which he doesn’t check as often as his email. codinghorror mentions that instance emails should notify users of major releases. downey notes that major releases are typically announced in the project’s primary communication channels.
codinghorror mentions that a releases category on the forum is likely to be created in the future. TheJames shares his approach of using a blog category for announcements and an IFTTT rule to compose tweets.
I went here today to research why discourse didn’t boot a server failure, then I noticed that Discourse 1.0 stable has been released.
While Discourse sends me updates on when a new version is released (0.9.x.x), I didn’t get an e-mail about 1.0 stable.
Is there a “public announcement” mailing list I can opt in to?
Generally it is the twitter account
I wonder if we should make an announcements category here and then people can watch it if they wish.
Nah, Twitter is optimized for exactly this.
Cool, thanks Jeff.
I checked the twitter account and saw that there is more on it than just public announcements .. AND I don’t check twitter as much as my e-mail.
You should have been emailed by your instance about 1.0. Any bugs here that would have prevented this, @neil?
I’d love that, personally.
It’s generally standard practice in the FOSS world to announce major releases (and what’s new) in the medium/media where users as well as contributors regularly communicate about the project.
For Discourse, that’d probably be here and the (unofficial?) IRC channel.
I actually do both. We have a blog category to make announcements. I have a IFTTT rule that watches category.rss and composes a tweet
We will probably have a releases category here at some point.