news.fp.o and workflows

[Jonathan Roberts]

On the idea of testing workflows for the news.fp.o site, and whether
this needs to involve the test instance, Karsten says:

>  It could be that we don't have a new workflow to test.  For
> example, FWN
>  is done entirely on the wiki, so a blog engine is just a delivery
>  mechanism -- paste content, add appropriate category, publish. 
Thomas, others, what do you think about this?

>  But aren't there other ideas?  The stories, for example.  But
> again,
>  there I don't see too much workflow put on the blog engine.  We do want
>  a fair amount of work *before* anything hits the blog engine, so that
>  people aren't just publishing random garbage.
>  
>  There are some things we want to consider, such as a designated pool of
>  categories so we aren't doing "selinux" and "se linux", etc. 
> Those are
>  discussions independent of the test instance, though.
>  
>  Maybe we can do something like:
>  
>  * Define a list of what we want to do with the blog engine to start
>  (FWN, stories, press releases, etc. 
My list:

 * FWN
 * Press Releases/Announcements
 * Stories (I think this equals Fedora Fundamentals or whatever has been
decided for the name!)
 * Interviews
>  
>  * Lightly write-up the workflow for each of those, see where the blog
>  fits in
>  
>  * That may give us some stuff to test
>  
>  * Those results we use for discussion, sparking more ideas, etc.
>   
So, do people have thoughts about these bullets? Things you'd like to do
with news.fp.o? Reply and lets see if there are things that need testing
or whether the workflow is pretty self-explanatory!

Jon

[Thomas Chung]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Jonathan Roberts
<jonrob(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  On the idea of testing workflows for the news.fp.o site, and whether
>   this needs to involve the test instance, Karsten says:
>
>   > It could be that we don't have a new workflow to test.  For example, FWN
>   > is done entirely on the wiki, so a blog engine is just a delivery
>   > mechanism -- paste content, add appropriate category, publish.
>
>   Thomas, others, what do you think about this? 
He's correct. The workflow for FWN is very similiar to Docs Project.
Everything is done via wiki.
Although, I would like to see RSS Feed from more official site than my own blog.
Regards,
-- 
Thomas Chung
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

[Rahul Sundaram]

Jonathan Roberts wrote:

>  So, do people have thoughts about these bullets? Things you'd
> like to do
>  with news.fp.o? Reply and lets see if there are things that need testing
>  or whether the workflow is pretty self-explanatory! 
There seems to be still doubts as to whether we are going with lyceum or 
wordpress-mu.

I was talking to Red Hat Magazine folks about their Lyceum installation 
and viability of a active upstream and Bret Mcmillan (cc'ed) recommended 
evaluating wordpress-mu instead.

I can only start looking at packaging after I get a all around 
confirmation. The final decision is yours.

Rahul

blog engine review (was Re: news.fp.o and workflows)

[Karsten Wade]

On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 03:15 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  Jonathan Roberts wrote:
>  
>  > So, do people have thoughts about these bullets? Things you'd like to do
>  > with news.fp.o? Reply and lets see if there are things that need testing
>  > or whether the workflow is pretty self-explanatory!
>  
>  There seems to be still doubts as to whether we are going with lyceum or 
>  wordpress-mu. 
This is not related to what Jon is talking about.  He is looking for how
people use a tool to know what to check on the test instance(s) we put
in front of him.

But to follow your post heist, I'll take a chance to mention ...

A few of us with interest in WordPress MU missed the chance to help with
the test previously, and we asked if we could take another shot at
making it work for Fedora.  At our current pace, we'll have a better
idea in a week if we need to investigate further in that direction.
Until then we won't know which needs to be packaged.

- Karsten
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