Zikula deployment date

[Mel Chua]

>> covered by any freezes.  Mel will be working on getting a test instance
>> for marketing on a publictest machine soon.

Yep, that's almost up on publictest6. I'm working through it verrrry 
slowly since it's my first time getting something up on infra; so far 
I've spent about an hour on it and am almost-but-not-quite done. The 
same steps take 14 minutes on my laptop, so clearly I have much to 
learn. Ricky's been a great help with navigating the stuff I'm 
unfamiliar with, and I'm documenting the living daylights out of this: 
http://blog.melchua.com/2009/08/16/how-the-zikula-based-test-instance-of-fi-was-put-up-part-1/

> If it's marketing related or an official support system we should probably
> move it to the normal app servers.  Though I don't really know what
> marketing had in mind for it.

 > I guess we'll have to talk about what "they" want to do with it.

For the record: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight. (FI for 
short.)

This is a separate instance from docs, so there are at least two zikula 
installs needed; docs, which has a lot of requirements that aren't all 
worked out yet (see: list of legal blockers and packaging-needed stuff) 
and marketing/FI, which only needs 3 packages (core zikula and two 
modules, all three of which are packaged) and therefore isn't blocked by 
any of the packaging/legal issues that docs is.

So, as far as I can tell, zikula-based FI *is* an option for F12, 
especially if it isn't critical path and can go onto a server that isn't 
affected by the freeze. But I'm not sure whether these things are true...

 > if marketing is going to do press releases or anything that might
 > get linked to from the release announcement, I'd put that in critical
 > path too.

We are going to be putting press releases and pretty much everything 
that gets linked to from the release announcement on FI. So Mike, I 
reckon it's my turn to apologize for not having gotten fully up to speed 
on how infrastructure freezes work yet, and ask:

1. is FI critical-path (and therefore impacted by infrastructure freeze?)
2. given the answer to (1), what timeline/deadlines would you propose 
for getting FI infrastructure up and onto production (before September 
8? get it on publictest now and wait until F13 for the rest?) (What 
should work, on what server, when?)

--Mel

PS: Re: translation deadline being September 15 - whether we aim for 
that depends almost entirely on whether we can get a production instance 
up more than a week or so in advance of that date, so I'm concentrating 
on settling the latter question first.