news.fedoraproject.org (revisited)

[Bart Couvreur]

Hi news-peoples

Short intro: I'm Bart Couvreur (mostly known as couf), working in docs,
l10n, Belgian ambassador and some more.

I've recently read an infrastructure-ticket about news.fp.o and I'm
willing to set this stuff up and get it rocking. I've been chatting a
bit with Rahul & Mike McGrath about this, and we've concluded to use
Drupal[1] for the site.

I do have some questions for you guys:
      * First off (not a real feature issue): anyone around here doing
        some packaging and willing to package some Drupal modules (I'm
        also trying to get to the drupal-package maintainer and see if
        he wants to)
      * Do we need to define a certain workflow, e.g.: anyone can submit
        a story, a mail gets sent to this list and editors can jump on
        the text and publish it
      * What about comments to a story?
      * The option to push to digg, slashdot, ...
      * A calendar with Fedora events (releases, representations at
        shows)
      * Anything else you'd like? Note: I'm not gonna make the site to
        overloaded (KISS); so a lot of "we'd like to have feature X"
        will probably not happen

Thanks, and looking forward to work with y'all

Bart

[1] http://drupal.org

[Oisin Feeley]

On 10/23/07, Bart Couvreur  wrote:
> I've recently read an infrastructure-ticket about news.fp.o and I'm
> willing to set this stuff up and get it rocking. I've been chatting a
> bit with Rahul & Mike McGrath about this, and we've concluded to use
> Drupal[1] for the site.

Sounds great Bart.  I can help out with Drupal theming, administration
if needed.  One thing which would interest me would be gathering
statistics about hits on items.

Best wishes,
Oisín

[Rahul Sundaram]

Bart Couvreur wrote:
> I do have some questions for you guys:
>       * First off (not a real feature issue): anyone around here doing
>         some packaging and willing to package some Drupal modules (I'm
>         also trying to get to the drupal-package maintainer and see if
>         he wants to)

I can volunteer if noone else really wants it but if the maintainer does 
it, that would likely work better.
>   * Do we need to define a certain workflow, e.g.: anyone can submit
>     a story, a mail gets sent to this list and editors can jump on
>     the text and publish it

Yeah. That would work.
>   * What about comments to a story?

Anyone can comment by default but I would the ability to moderate or 
disable comments especially anonymous ones if needed.
>   * The option to push to digg, slashdot, ...

Must.
>   * A calendar with Fedora events (releases, representations at
>     shows)

Would be nice.
>   * Anything else you'd like? 

Categories/tags. Rest is listed in the RFE itself.

Rahul

[Bart Couvreur]

Op woensdag 24-10-2007 om 21:19 uur [tijdzone +0530], schreef Rahul
Sundaram:
> Bart Couvreur wrote:
> > I do have some questions for you guys:
> >       * First off (not a real feature issue): anyone around here doing
> >         some packaging and willing to package some Drupal modules (I'm
> >         also trying to get to the drupal-package maintainer and see if
> >         he wants to)
>
> I can volunteer if noone else really wants it but if the maintainer does 
> it, that would likely work better.

I've got the maintainer, and he's willing to get the job done.
> >   * Do we need to define a certain workflow, e.g.: anyone can submit
> >     a story, a mail gets sent to this list and editors can jump on
> >     the text and publish it
>
> Yeah. That would work.
> >   * What about comments to a story?
>
> Anyone can comment by default but I would the ability to moderate or 
> disable comments especially anonymous ones if needed.
> >   * The option to push to digg, slashdot, ...
>
> Must.
> >   * A calendar with Fedora events (releases, representations at
> >     shows)
>
> Would be nice.
> >   * Anything else you'd like? 
>
> Categories/tags. Rest is listed in the RFE itself.
>
> Rahul

Okay cool, I think we can have the utter basic setup done once the
needed contrib-modules become part of the package collection and then
it's only a bit configuration and creating the theme.

The good news is that I'll try to keep the list of modules as small as
possible, giving us the possibility to get a test instance running by
next week, I hope.

Bart