Fwd: Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-03-18)

[Chris A. Roberts]

We might even get some contributors from this too :)


Good thing I fixed the site for auto scaling, it should handle the extra
traffic fine, and I have it send me a text message/email if it does not
see a response within 3 mins.


- Chris

> >> Matthew Miller  03/18/14 5:33 PM >>> 
Reposting
from , for those of you who
prefer email to the web. :)

Fedora is big project, and it’s hard to follow it all. This new Fedora
Magazine feature will highlight interesting happenings in five different
areas every week. It won’t be comprehensive news coverage — just quick
summaries and links to each. So, here we go for March 18th, 2014:

Flock 2014 registration and talk proposals open
-----------------------------------------------

In case you missed the article in Fedora Magazine a few days ago… don’t
miss
it. The website at , and the talk proposal
deadline is coming up fast: April 3rd, 2014.

Fedora 21 feature planning in progress
--------------------------------------

Looking to do something new for Fedora 21? The initial schedule is set
and
many changes are already accepted by FESCo. Submission deadline is April
8th, 2014. If you have something to add, find out how at
.

Ambassadors discuss inactive memberships
----------------------------------------



Interesting discussion on Fedora Ambassadors mailing list about a
process
for marking the memberships of people who aren’t actively participating
as
inactive. Looks like there’s wide support for the low-overhead,
non-punitive
proposal (which allows easy reactivation).

KDE talks about Fedora Products
-------------------------------



Another interesting discussion: KDE SIG is working on a proposal for
“Fedora
Plasma”, a desktop product focused at educational and scientific use.
FESCo
and the Fedora Advisory Board have previously approved the governance
and
PRDs for Cloud, Server, and Workstation (the latter of which recently
elected to use Gnome as the base). It will be interesting to see how
this
all fits together.

Planning for new Fedora web design
----------------------------------

The Fedora Websites and Design teams are working on refreshed websites
in
support of Fedora.next. I’m cheating a bit because some this is more
than a
week old, but it’s all still in progress. This includes an ambitious
plan
for a new community hub, although initial work focuses on updating the
Get
Fedora “brochure” site.

Endnote
-------
So that’s it for this week. If something didn’t make the list and you
think
it should have, that probably just means I missed it, not that it wasn’t
important. Please drop me a line and we’ll make this better next time.


Bonus mailing list questions!
-----------------------------

Is it helpful to post this here? If so, is full text important, or is
posting a link to the web site fine? Would it be helpful to post it to
other
lists as well or instead? What about repurposing the defunct "news"
mailing
list for just this purpose?

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[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 05:41:35PM -0400, Chris Roberts wrote:
>  Good thing I fixed the site for auto scaling, it should handle the
> extra
>  traffic fine, and I have it send me a text message/email if it does not
>  see a response within 3 mins. 
Awesome -- thanks for watching it. (I sometimes miss being an active
sysadmin, but... sometimes not so much!) Is this really generating that
much more traffic? (If so, *awesome*.)


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[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 06:06:05PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
>  > Good thing I fixed the site for auto scaling, it should handle
> the extra
>  > traffic fine, and I have it send me a text message/email if it does not
>  > see a response within 3 mins.
>  Awesome -- thanks for watching it. (I sometimes miss being an active
>  sysadmin, but... sometimes not so much!) Is this really generating that
>  much more traffic? (If so, *awesome*.) 
And speaking of traffic and handling scaling, do we now have enough power to
turn Jetpack back on?

Although mostly what I want is Markdown support :) it looks like many of the
other features would be really nice.


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[Chris A. Roberts]

>  And speaking of traffic and handling scaling, do we now have enough
> power to
>  turn Jetpack back on? 
Yeah I will try testing that out this weekend :) I want to install it and see what the
resources goto, but i dont see it being an issue.


- Chris

[Joe Brockmeier]

On 03/19/2014 10:23 AM, Chris Roberts wrote:
> > And speaking of traffic and handling scaling, do we now have
> enough power to
> > turn Jetpack back on? 
Can someone refresh my memory - what does JetPack do for us? We should
probably keep the add-ons to a bare minimum, since that just increases
the number of things we're having to keep updated.

>  Yeah I will try testing that out this weekend :) I want to install it
> and see what the resources goto, but i dont see it being an issue.
>  
>  
>  - Chris
>  
>  
>  
>   

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[Chris A. Roberts]

Joe,


https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/

I am in agreeing with you on this until we get some more of the bugs worked out actually.
I have noticed that w3 cache is throwing up php warnings according the the log plugin I
have running. I have temporary disabled it, there should not be a decrease in response
time, as queries are faster and php warning are not presenting themselves. I spoke to soon
without looking at the logs matt sorry :(


- Chris


> >> Joe Brockmeier <jzb(a)redhat.com&gt; 03/19/14 11:25 AM
> >>> 
On 03/19/2014 10:23 AM, Chris Roberts wrote:
> > And speaking of traffic and handling scaling, do we now have
> enough power to
> > turn Jetpack back on? 
Can someone refresh my memory - what does JetPack do for us? We should
probably keep the add-ons to a bare minimum, since that just increases
the number of things we're having to keep updated.

>  Yeah I will try testing that out this weekend :) I want to install it
> and see what the resources goto, but i dont see it being an issue.
>  
>  
>  - Chris
>  
>  
>  
>   

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[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:30:19AM -0400, Chris Roberts wrote:
>  I am in agreeing with you on this until we get some more of the bugs
>  worked out actually. I have noticed that w3 cache is throwing up php
>  warnings according the the log plugin I have running. I have temporary
>  disabled it, there should not be a decrease in response time, as queries
>  are faster and php warning are not presenting themselves. I spoke to soon
>  without looking at the logs matt sorry :( 
Yep, no problem. Not worth causing problems over.

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more jetpack [was Re: Fwd: Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-03-18)]

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:30:19AM -0400, Chris Roberts wrote:
>  I am in agreeing with you on this until we get some more of the bugs
>  worked out actually. I have noticed that w3 cache is throwing up php
>  warnings according the the log plugin I have running. I have temporary
>  disabled it, there should not be a decrease in response time, as queries
>  are faster and php warning are not presenting themselves. I spoke to soon
>  without looking at the logs matt sorry :( 
It looks like Jetpack ships with a ton of stuff enabled by default but which
isn't actually the things I'm interested in. What about trying again but
with just just Subscriptions and Markdown enabled? Then if those don't cause
problems, we can turn on other things one by one as there is interest. (Next
candidates -- Notifications, Likes, Infinite Scroll, Contact Form. Oh -- and
there's an RSS feed button widget.)


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[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:24:37AM -0500, Joe Brockmeier wrote:
>  On 03/19/2014 10:23 AM, Chris Roberts wrote:
>  >> And speaking of traffic and handling scaling, do we now have enough power to
>  >> turn Jetpack back on?
>  Can someone refresh my memory - what does JetPack do for us? We should
>  probably keep the add-ons to a bare minimum, since that just increases
>  the number of things we're having to keep updated. 
This is an official thing from Wordpress, so it's in some ways safer than
random plugins. But it's also quite large.

Of the things it provides, I am particularly interested in email
subscriptions to posts and comments, and the improved commenting system in
general. And also the markdown support (not crucial, but I do love me some
markdown). The stats system might be interesting from a marketing/metrics
perspective.


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