Re: Do pretests reach end users?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 03.07.2020 14:43, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Dmitry Gutov<dgutov@yandex.ru>
> > Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 12:59:31 +0300
> > Cc:liwei.ma@gmail.com,kevin.legouguec@gmail.com,emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> > > > And even pretest releases for Windows do not seem to be mentioned in any way 
> > > > on<https://gnu.org/s/emacs>.  How users are supposed to get them?
> > > They aren't.  We cannot control the policies of the various distros,
> > > and cannot rely on them for being part of the pretest.  Sometimes they
> > > are, nonetheless, presumably because the people who are responsible
> > > for the distros read the announcements about the pretests, and that is
> > > good.  But it isn't the main means for pretesting.
> > What about the official website, though?
> What about it?

I can/should contain information on how to try the "next" version.

There are no links to development snapshots and related instructions. No 
quickly available information on how to participate in the project (one 
needs to click on "Documentation & Support" scroll down and then find 
the word "CONTRIBUTE" at the very end of the page).

Improving on any of these can increase the number of users trying out 
our development snapshots and reporting bugs. Which should lead to 
faster stabilization.