Figure out what to do with TB Alpha release posts on the forum
We're planning on launching a recruitment campaign for new Alpha Testers in May (see: tpo/applications/team#6). As part of that work, I'm expanding the Become an Alpha Tester page in the community portal to include a testing flow that encourages users to visit and post feedback in the Tor Browser Alpha Feedback category on the forum (see tpo/web/community#269 (closed)) – and will copy and paste the final copy into the forum category's description when ready too.
However I'm not totally sure what to do about Tor Browser Alpha release posts, which currently get added to the Blog and then imported into the News category like so:
- Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-115a8/
- Forum: https://forum.torproject.net/t/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-11-5a8-windows-macos-linux/2725
In future, I'd like to include a "What to test" section in Alpha release posts too, and it would make sense for these posts to be easily accessible within the Alpha Feedback category. To achieve this, we could:
- Crosspost Alpha release posts into the Alpha Feedback category (with the complication that we'd need to maintain two threads, or lock one of them)
- Enlist TPA to reconfigure the blog → News category import so that Alpha release posts are imported into Alpha Feedback instead
- Something else?