Bug 506679

Summary: Content from This Week in Plasma could be reused in Plasma announcement posts
Product: [Websites] www.kde.org Reporter: John Veness <john.kde>
Component: generalAssignee: kde-www mailing-list <kde-www>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
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Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description John Veness 2025-07-06 16:33:01 UTC 
I very much enjoy Nate's This Week in Plasma blog posts (https://blogs.kde.org/categories/this-week-in-plasma/). Conversely, the announcement posts on https://kde.org/announcements/ are very dry and technical.

Compare, for example the "official" announcement posts for 6.4.2:

- https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.2/
- https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/6/6.4.1-6.4.2/

with Nate's blog content for 6.4.2:

- https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/28/this-week-in-plasma-inertial-scrolling-rdp-clipboard-syncing-and-more-session-restore/#plasma-642
- https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/28/this-week-in-plasma-inertial-scrolling-rdp-clipboard-syncing-and-more-session-restore/#plasma-642-1
- https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/05/this-week-in-plasma-chugging-along/#plasma-642

I think it would be a great idea if Nate's content could be re-used in the Plasma announcement posts :)
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-08-01 19:31:39 UTC 
It more or less is used at least for the release announcements for feature releases; the promo team and I mine it for information to write the release announcements. We can't re-use the text in the posts directly since the wording wouldn't fit a glossy release announcement.

I see what you mean about the bug-fix releases though. These are currently auto-generated from the commit messages. We could definitely do a better job there by doing it by hand, but to be honest I think it would be too much work. Plasma has 18 of these per year; there likely just aren't resources to do that.

What I think we could do is make better use of git commit tags (like FEATURE and CHANGELOG) to make the auto-generated text in the bug-fix releases better.

Someone would need to champion that initiative. Maybe you? :D