keeping up with the updates

florin_andrei

Joined: 2004-01-11
Posts: 79

Posted: Wed, 2010-09-01 22:41

I'm actually quite interested in the release of G3, but frankly I haven't checked the website every day, so I missed many days of testing after various RC versions were released. It would be nice to signal the release of a new version (or RC, or beta, ...) to the community. I know there's an RSS feed on the site, but not a lot of people use that anymore.

May I suggest Twitter? A lot of software projects do this (CentOS, Chrome, etc.) and it works quite well. It would be great to follow a G3 (or Gallery in general) Twitter feed and stay updated with the new releases and important announcements.

If it's too much work to manually Twitter every time, there are ways (modules) to auto-post from Drupal to Twitter, maybe that will help.

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markusk

Joined: 2006-04-20
Posts: 52

Posted: Wed, 2010-09-01 23:04

i'm quite sure there are ways to get an rss-feed to twitter, but you can as well use i.e. feedburner to get yourself notified by mail..

and if you haven't yet, check out how to use github (there's an explaination somewhere in the codex pages) - i'm doing a simple "git pull" from commandline now every couple of days and that way am sure i'm running the latest and hottest even if there were no new public releases..

markus.

nivekiam

Joined: 2002-12-10
Posts: 16503

Posted: Wed, 2010-09-01 23:29

Want to stay in touch with what's happening (here's more than you could ever want)

http://twitter.com/gallery3
http://github.com/gallery/gallery3 (there's an RSS feed too)
http://codex.gallery2.org/Mailing_Lists
http://www.facebook.com/gallery3
http://codex.gallery2.org/IRC
http://gallery.menalto.com/forum

Alpha, Beta, RC (even final) releases are just snapshots, nothing more nothing less, but they are frozen and don't change. There isn't a new release or notice every time there's a change (well I guess there is on twitter and you may be able to get an rss feed on github). If you want to be "bleeding edge, use git:
git clone git://github.com/gallery/gallery3.git

To get current, just use the command git pull Done

More info:
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery:Using_Git
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery:Git_FAQ
http://github.com/gallery
http://github.com/gallery/gallery3

There's also the upgrade instructions: http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery3:Upgrading

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florin_andrei

Joined: 2004-01-11
Posts: 79

Posted: Wed, 2010-09-01 23:47

Excellent! That does it.

Would be nice to put some of those links on the Support page or something - a more prominent place on the web site, so that poor souls like me looking for help can actually find it.

Thank you.

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http://florin.myip.org/

floridave

Joined: 2003-12-22
Posts: 22888

Posted: Thu, 2010-09-02 04:04

Quote:

Would be nice to put some of those links on the Support page or something

Documentation is for users by users. So find a good place for it and make it.

I don't think it worth a link on the main page but if you add enough text, it will be indexed by Google and easily searched.

Dave
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glodakan

Joined: 2010-06-13
Posts: 51

Posted: Thu, 2010-09-02 23:23

wow nice info thank you nivekiam...

florin_andrei Joined: 2004-01-11 Posts: 79	Posted: Wed, 2010-09-01 22:41
	I'm actually quite interested in the release of G3, but frankly I haven't checked the website every day, so I missed many days of testing after various RC versions were released. It would be nice to signal the release of a new version (or RC, or beta, ...) to the community. I know there's an RSS feed on the site, but not a lot of people use that anymore. May I suggest Twitter? A lot of software projects do this (CentOS, Chrome, etc.) and it works quite well. It would be great to follow a G3 (or Gallery in general) Twitter feed and stay updated with the new releases and important announcements. If it's too much work to manually Twitter every time, there are ways (modules) to auto-post from Drupal to Twitter, maybe that will help. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/
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markusk Joined: 2006-04-20 Posts: 52	Posted: Wed, 2010-09-01 23:04
	i'm quite sure there are ways to get an rss-feed to twitter, but you can as well use i.e. feedburner to get yourself notified by mail.. and if you haven't yet, check out how to use github (there's an explaination somewhere in the codex pages) - i'm doing a simple "git pull" from commandline now every couple of days and that way am sure i'm running the latest and hottest even if there were no new public releases.. markus.

nivekiam Joined: 2002-12-10 Posts: 16503	Posted: Wed, 2010-09-01 23:29
	Want to stay in touch with what's happening (here's more than you could ever want) http://twitter.com/gallery3 http://github.com/gallery/gallery3 (there's an RSS feed too) http://codex.gallery2.org/Mailing_Lists http://www.facebook.com/gallery3 http://codex.gallery2.org/IRC http://gallery.menalto.com/forum Alpha, Beta, RC (even final) releases are just snapshots, nothing more nothing less, but they are frozen and don't change. There isn't a new release or notice every time there's a change (well I guess there is on twitter and you may be able to get an rss feed on github). If you want to be "bleeding edge, use git: git clone git://github.com/gallery/gallery3.git To get current, just use the command git pull Done More info: http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery:Using_Git http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery:Git_FAQ http://github.com/gallery http://github.com/gallery/gallery3 There's also the upgrade instructions: http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery3:Upgrading ____________________________________________ Like Gallery? Like the support? Donate now!!! See G2 live here

florin_andrei Joined: 2004-01-11 Posts: 79	Posted: Wed, 2010-09-01 23:47
	Excellent! That does it. Would be nice to put some of those links on the Support page or something - a more prominent place on the web site, so that poor souls like me looking for help can actually find it. Thank you. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

floridave Joined: 2003-12-22 Posts: 22888	Posted: Thu, 2010-09-02 04:04
	Quote: Would be nice to put some of those links on the Support page or something Documentation is for users by users. So find a good place for it and make it. I don't think it worth a link on the main page but if you add enough text, it will be indexed by Google and easily searched. Dave _____________________________________________ Blog & G2 \|\| floridave - Gallery Team

glodakan Joined: 2010-06-13 Posts: 51	Posted: Thu, 2010-09-02 23:23
	wow nice info thank you nivekiam...

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