[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #7016: Restore visibility of all WordPress releases in events and news widget

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#7016: Restore visibility of all WordPress releases in events and news widget
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 Reporter:  ironprogrammer  |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:
Component:  General         |  Resolution:
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Comment (by dansoschin):

 There were some conversations regarding this change here:
 https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RQBWTW/p1677011442309209
 https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C04JZ199XPG/p1678211547076859
 https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RQBWTW/p1678211661127259

 I'll let folks draw their own conclusions, but what I gathered from the
 conversations was that the data wasn't very conclusive about a correlation
 between the location of the posts and a decrease in testing. But that much
 of observations or subjective vs. objective.

 So, to address concerns about testing volume and breadth moving forward, I
 think that there can be a greater spotlight on testing (how to test, how
 to get started, what to test) in major announcements (Beta 1, RC1) and
 minor announcements (other milestone builds). In those announcements,
 additional emphasis on a few select items that need more testing could
 also be made (e.g., "spotlight items").

 Obviously, there's no downside to emphasizing the importance of testing
 which is why it will be a greater part of our planned release comms for
 6.3.






 Replying to [comment:3 afragen]:
 > @dansoschin can I ask where the discussion for the ''experiment'' of
 moving the development posts from `news/category/development` to other
 locations and tags happened?
 >
 > Was there any measurement of success or failure of the experiment and
 what was the metric used?
 >
 > Is this a permanent or temporary change or are we still experimenting?
 >
 > > This way all the beta and RC release announcements would show up in
 the dashboard for all users and/or folks specifically using the beta test
 widget.
 >
 > Before this change all the users of the Beta Tester plugin saw the Beta
 and RC announcements in the dashboard widget.
 >
 > > This would enable the posts to continue to live in the most
 appropriate places (major announcements on /news and minor milestone
 announcements on /core.
 >
 > Who determined the ''most appropriate'' place for these announcements to
 live and again, what was the criteria?
 >
 > If we are going to change how and where we post these announcements it
 would be nice to have some sort of ''permanent'' solution agreed upon
 before making changes to the Beta Tester plugin.

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