Re: Official Twitter Account

On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 12:38 AM Kris Craig <kris.craig@gmail.com> wrote: > Have we ever considered automating these social media posts? Not just > Twitter, but Reddit, as well. A bot could be setup to monitor for > announcements and repost them to social media without it having to be done > manually. > > It's not a terrible idea. We've got an API to list current releases.... somewhere (if not, making one is trivial given our data structures). Having a cron job live somewhere with an API key is a small step from there. The hard part is deciding on the text. For example, "this is a security (or bugfix) release" is salient. Personally, I quite enjoy giving flavorful announcements. Lastly, there's noise; I think that usually we'll want these to be batched, and each branch has a different RM (except when I'm doing 7.1 for joe). -Sara