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Dear developers, especially those working on free and open software: every new release is an opportunity to have someone discover your tool.
Make sure you explain what your tool is when announcing a new release and have links to where people can learn more about it.
Removing barriers of entry and rights of passage includes never assuming that people already know what your tool or app is or what it does.
(The same goes for not using – or at least introducing/explaining – acronyms and jargon in your prose.)
@aral +1
Also:
“… Please make sure it's #accessible as an average 15% of the population (and it's a conservative estimation) will benefit from it, some of which will not be able to use it **at all** if it is not accessible.”
@aral I agree. In an ideal world, we would actually have time to properly test and document things..
@aral there's this guy that announces every new release of a software project but the only thing he mentions is the name of the software and the new version name. So much effort, so useless :/