Last modified: 2013-03-11 07:33:01 UTC
Many OSS projects like ownCloud and Mailvelope and also security-issue related services like "Packetstorm" use "Twitter" for informing admins about + new releases + breaking news + and so on Only Wikimedia/MediaWiki does not use this, as far as I know. See also mail discussion thread http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/68137 I suggest: Use "Twitter" for breaking news, software upgrades ("Some Sort of Notice for Breaking Changes")
Seems we already do: https://twitter.com/mediawiki Not sure who has access though. BZ isn't the place for this.
It's a good place - if the names of staff having access is added here.
and to trigger some progress in that respect.
I think we're trying to solve two things with one account. I don't think new releases necessarily should be announced at the same place we announce things that only affect developers (it's the reason we have the ultra-low-traffic mediawiki-announce, for comparison). Announcing developer-esque changes reduces the usefulness of the main account. So if it's going to be done...it should be from a separate account. But really, we have hard enough time getting people to follow the usual communication channels, so I doubt that adding *yet another* is a good idea.
I agree API breaks should be announced in advance, but I don't think including Twitter in some communication process is the answer for this. Then again if someone writes occasionally about API changes in a blog post or even a significant email and we get a heads up, I don't mind posting that through our social media channels. fwiw, info about Twitter et al can be found and discussed at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Social_media
(In reply to comment #4) > But really, we have hard enough time getting people to follow the usual > communication channels, so I doubt that adding *yet another* is a good idea. For the record, these are primarily: - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce
