Fedora News on Zikula

[Eric Christensen]

Last Wednesday the Zikula team met to discuss our current progress for
rolling out Zikula as the CMS replacement for docs.fp.o.  During that
meeting it was discussed that the News Project is also interested in
using Zikula as well.

We've created a development status page[1] for Zikula which includes
information on our meetings, links to the previous meeting minutes, and
a list of modules that are needed to be packaged.  I'd like for someone
from the News project to join us at our meetings so we can better learn
what is needed to make Zikula work for News!

I'd also like to point out that there are many different modules[2]
available for Zikula.  If you see something that you'd like to
incorporate into the News instance of Zikula please feel free to put it
on the list[1] under "Required for Fedora Weekly News".  If you would
like to package it we have template SPEC files available to help.
Otherwise let Eric (Sparks)[3] or David (KE4QQQ)[4] know that it needs
to be packaged and we'll put it on the to-do list.

I'd appreciate someone contacting me (either on this list, the logistics
list, or direct) so I will have a point-of-contact for this project.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Zikula
[2] http://community.zikula.org/module-Extensions.htm
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sparks
[4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ke4qqq

Thanks,
Eric

[Pascal Calarco]

Hi Eric --

I attended the Marketing meeting this past week where Zikula was one of 
the discussion points briefly, and am working with JonRob on getting 
Fedora News integrated into the foobar project.  I have a regular 
meeting Wednesdays at that time, but will try to make these as best I can.

Thanks for the links I'll check these out tomorrow!

- pascal

On 24/07/09 02:28 PM, Eric Christensen wrote:
> Last Wednesday the Zikula team met to discuss our current progress for
> rolling out Zikula as the CMS replacement for docs.fp.o.  During that
> meeting it was discussed that the News Project is also interested in
> using Zikula as well.
>
> We've created a development status page[1] for Zikula which includes
> information on our meetings, links to the previous meeting minutes, and
> a list of modules that are needed to be packaged.  I'd like for someone
> from the News project to join us at our meetings so we can better learn
> what is needed to make Zikula work for News!
>
> I'd also like to point out that there are many different modules[2]
> available for Zikula.  If you see something that you'd like to
> incorporate into the News instance of Zikula please feel free to put it
> on the list[1] under "Required for Fedora Weekly News".  If you would
> like to package it we have template SPEC files available to help.
> Otherwise let Eric (Sparks)[3] or David (KE4QQQ)[4] know that it needs
> to be packaged and we'll put it on the to-do list.
>
> I'd appreciate someone contacting me (either on this list, the logistics
> list, or direct) so I will have a point-of-contact for this project.
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Zikula
> [2] http://community.zikula.org/module-Extensions.htm
> [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sparks
> [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ke4qqq
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
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[Dale Bewley]

After reading https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight
I wanted to login and see what Zikula looks like and how it would
actually be used.

I created an account and logged in, but do I need to have my account
authorized by someone? I don't see how to create a test post.

I realize it's early, but it seems like a pretty flat hierarchy. I'm
having trouble picturing how "FWN" would be carved out.

[Mel Chua]

Thanks for asking, Dale.

On 09/10/2009 06:19 PM, Dale Bewley wrote:
> After reading https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight
> I wanted to login and see what Zikula looks like and how it would
> actually be used.

The Fedora Insight (FI) workflow is being hacked on in Marketing, so 
I've copied the Marketing list - actually, you have impeccable timing. 
Robyn Bergeron has gone through and made a basic workflow (and her work 
was the initial driver that made sure a lot of basic functionality in 
Zikula was put in), but it's time to figure out the actual workflow for 
News, so I was literally *just* about to ask the News list about this.
> I created an account and logged in, but do I need to have my account
> authorized by someone? I don't see how to create a test post.

It looks like all new accounts are being made administrators by default 
on the test instance, so you can go to 
https://publictest6.fedoraproject.org/zikula/index.php?module=News&type=... 
to create new articles. This obviously needs to not be the case for the 
live instance. ;) So we need someone from News to figure out the 
workflow you would like.
> I realize it's early, but it seems like a pretty flat hierarchy. I'm
> having trouble picturing how "FWN" would be carved out.

The answer is "we don't know, and we were actually just about to ask you."

Dale, would you or anyone from News be willing to tackle 
https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/32? It shouldn't be that 
hard, and the best way to carve out FWN so that the News team likes it 
is to have the News team carve it out. ;)

--Mel

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:28:23AM -0400, Mel Chua wrote:
> Thanks for asking, Dale.
>
> On 09/10/2009 06:19 PM, Dale Bewley wrote:
> > After reading https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight
> > I wanted to login and see what Zikula looks like and how it would
> > actually be used.
>
> The Fedora Insight (FI) workflow is being hacked on in Marketing, so  
> I've copied the Marketing list - actually, you have impeccable timing.  
> Robyn Bergeron has gone through and made a basic workflow (and her work  
> was the initial driver that made sure a lot of basic functionality in  
> Zikula was put in), but it's time to figure out the actual workflow for  
> News, so I was literally *just* about to ask the News list about this.
> > I created an account and logged in, but do I need to have my account
> > authorized by someone? I don't see how to create a test post.
>
> It looks like all new accounts are being made administrators by default  
> on the test instance, so you can go to  
> https://publictest6.fedoraproject.org/zikula/index.php?module=News&type=... 
> to create new articles. This obviously needs to not be the case for the  
> live instance. ;) So we need someone from News to figure out the  
> workflow you would like.
> > I realize it's early, but it seems like a pretty flat hierarchy. I'm
> > having trouble picturing how "FWN" would be carved out.
>
> The answer is "we don't know, and we were actually just about to ask you."
>
> Dale, would you or anyone from News be willing to tackle  
> https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/32? It shouldn't be that  
> hard, and the best way to carve out FWN so that the News team likes it  
> is to have the News team carve it out. ;)

It's much easier than it seems to "carve out" space for any topical
area in a CMS.  The flatness essentially means things can be organized
or reorganized at will very easily.  That sounds kind of hazy and
conceptual, but it's pretty simple to have URLs and navigation on the
site work to support something like:

http://insight.fedoraproject.org/weekly-news
http://insight.fedoraproject.org/podcasts
...