Those preview links expire after 24 hours IIRC.
Link, I don't necessarily think you need to restructure. More info is
better when it comes to these articles. I like the ones that don't
assume too much knowledge on the part of the user.
Paul
On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 3:39 AM, Stuart Brady <sbrady1215(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, I was about to edit this but I now get a 404 error on the link.
>
> On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Link Dupont <link(a)sub-pop.net> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2017-07-03 at 14:47 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 10:40:11PM -0700, Link Dupont wrote:
>> > > Hi everyone,
>> > >
>> > > I've got a first draft up for part 1 of the Backing up series.
>> > > Please
>> > > read, follow and give me feedback. There are definitely areas that
>> > > can
>> > > be improved.
>> > >
>> > > Also, I don't want to publish until all three articles are done. I
>> > > need
>> > > to make sure that parts two and three (duply and deja-dup,
>> > > respectively) will work seamlessly with the backup created in part
>> > > one.
>> > > This may mean significant edits to this part one.
>> > >
>> > > Please provide feedback!
>> > >
>> > >
https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=17880&preview=true&preview_id=17880
>> >
>> > The coverage of this article is absolutely spot-on. It's easy to
>> > follow and gives clear directions.
>> >
>> > I recommend you make a pass over it, though, and try to shorten and
>> > simplify sentences. A good rule of thumb is to minimize the use of
>> > the verb "to be," along with gerunds ("-ing" words).
For example:
>> >
>> > FROM: "Backups are only as good as how often they are run. Backups
>> > need to be scheduled and run regularly in order to keep adding new
>> > data and pruning off old data."
>> >
>> > TO: "Backups only help if you run them often. Schedule and run them
>> > regularly to keep adding new data and prune off old data."
>> >
>> > This might seem nitpicky, but writing becomes stronger when you make
>> > sentences short, and use a declarative or commanding tone. Don't
>> > labor over it too long though! ;-) Do what you can and I'll be glad
>> > to
>> > help tune it later.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Paul W. Frields
http://paul.frields.or
>> > g/
>> > gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717
>> >
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>> Perfect feedback. I'll give that a pass. Do you think there's too much
>> time spent on setting up AWS? I was thinking about a slight
>> restructuring of the article to focus more on duplicity, and leave most
>> of the AWS stuff up to the user. Basically writing the article assuming
>> that the user has their AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
>> already and just telling them to plug them in.
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