FI/Zikula meeting minutes, 2010-04-01

[Mel Chua]

Here's the longer email with context on the launch of the Zikula-based 
Fedora Insight project, what's happening with it, and how you can help. 
I'm trying to clean this up enough to send to the Zikula folks at 
http://groups.google.com/group/zikula-discussions?pli=1, but need help 
with the following details:

* When are the relevant Infrastructure freeze dates we're trying to hit? 
(I can't find these quickly on the wiki.)
* Have I described the tasks and calls-to-action for the Zikula 
community with actual accuracy? I'm guessing a bit from the limited 
recent context I have on what type of help we specifically need.

Thanks, folks.

--Mel

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Full minutes are at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-mktg/2010-04-01/fedora_insight.2010-04-01-18.00.html,
and full logs are at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-mktg/2010-04-01/fedora_insight.2010-04-01-18.00.log.html.

== What is Fedora Insight? ==

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Insight

"Fedora Insight (FI) is a website that serves as a place to publish and 
share news, articles related to Fedora and Fedora marketing materials in 
various formats. It makes it easy for users, developers, and journalists 
- people who aren't yet a part of the Fedora contributor community - to 
keep up with the goings on of the community without following a dozen 
different blogs and mailing lists."

== How does Zikula fit in? ==

FI is entirely based on Zikula and Zikula modules, with a custom theme 
and a custom authentication module that allows Fedora contributors to 
use their Fedora Account System (FAS) username and password to log in.

== What milestones are we targeting? ==

The Fedora Linux distribution has over 22 million users and several tens 
of thousands of contributors, and we are aiming to launch this site in 
conjunction with marketing for our 13th release at the start of May, 
meaning we'll have to hit Infrastructure freeze dates for staging 
(pre-production) and production much earlier than this. (TODO: Need 
freeze dates.)

== Where is this conversation happening? ==

Within Fedora, we communicate about FI-the-project (how we are doing in 
terms of getting it up and running, etc.) on the Logistics mailing list 
(https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/logistics) which is 
used for cross-team communication in Fedora. We also have weekly 
meetings on IRC, on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-mktg on Thursdays at 2pm 
US Eastern time (18:00 GMT).

== What next-actions do we need help with? ==

* https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2006 <-- We need 
to create forms for a pagemaster-based content workflow. This is not a 
huge technical challenge, but if anyone from Zikula has best-practices 
for pagemaser-based content workflow they'd like to share, this is the 
place to do it. Stories? Help? Ideas? Our current workflow is described 
in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight_Workflow.

* https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2057 <-- We're 
having some trouble getting pagemaster-based article weighting to work. 
Any help here would be awesome.

* https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2010 <-- More 
pagemaster. We're trying to find a better way of wrangling pubtypes. We 
think we have a workaround, but aren't sure if it (1) would actually 
work, or (2) is really a good idea. Thoughts?

* The database currently used in the testing instance needs to be 
migrated to staging at some point. Not a huge deal; someone with access 
just has to do it when we're ready.

* https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/66 <-- The theme needs to 
be completed and packaged; finding some old postnuke docs helped, but 
it's still been a long and slow journey through finding the appropriate 
syntax for pulling out certain pieces of information. More resources for 
this would be helpful - once the theme is finished we can push it to 
staging (https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2007). 
Are there any Zikula theme gurus in the house that might be able to hang 
out during a sprint and lend a hand with any questions that come up? 
(We're not sure what they'd be yet.)

* https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2009 <-- We need 
to set up RSS feeds for the different categories/types-of-content coming 
out, and to work these feeds into the theming of the site. Once it's 
complete, the RSS functionality needs to be tested. Folks with 
experience with RSS feeds in Zikula who can come in and take a look and 
tell us if we're Doing It Right would be extremely helpful.

* https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/109 <-- FASauth is a 
custom module written for Fedora by Simon Birtwistle that allows Fedora 
contributors to use their Fedora Account System (FAS) username and 
password to log in. We think it works; it needs testing. We also need to 
locate and separate all the pieces of changeable configuration in 
FASauth so that the module is a clean upstream (and can potentially be 
reused by other people), and so that we can back up our custom 
configuration for this specific site.

That's it for now - we'll try to keep these weekly updates coming to the 
lists after the weekly meetings. Questions, comments, thoughts? Please ask!

--Mel