"Writing a Community Blog article": Request for comments

[Justin W. Flory]

Quick Summary
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1) Outline for guidelines to write an article drafted, comments needed
2) Minimum requirements: Categories, tags, one image?
3) Minimum publish requirements: Three +1's?
4) Deadline: Monday (?)
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Hey all,

I drafted up the proposed "outline" of how a Fedora contributor can get 
started with writing their own article for the Community Blog. Once we 
get general approval on the process, I think this belongs on the header 
bar to help gain a larger amount of views for people wanting to 
contribute. It's definitely info that should be out in the open!

     https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/?page_id=221&preview=true

Some of the things that do need to be discussed:

     1) Basic requirements: Did we agree on these?

I thought I recalled us agreeing on a few basic requirements for 
articles either in IRC or previous mailings, but I wanted to be clear. I 
defined the basic requirements needed to publish as: (1) properly 
categorized, (2) properly tagged, and (3) must have one image. I feel 
like these are fairly basic requirements, but I wanted to confirm this 
before slating it out as "fully official".

     2) Minimum requirement to publish

This was something Remy and I (briefly) discussed on IRC and wanted to 
poll the list about. Before a contributor should be able to publish 
their article, we thought that a minimum requirement of three "+1's" 
would be a good bar to set (similar to the Bodhi karma voting process). 
Depending on the activity level of the list, I think this is a good 
amount and if an article is ever "urgency of the moment", a regular 
contributor should have the authority to okay publishing without waiting 
for a 100% vote.


Curious to know what the rest of your thoughts are on this! I definitely 
think we should try to get this page live by Sunday or Monday, so next 
week's visitors will have a definitive way to help get involved. ;)


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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com