Re: Beats are now open

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.