Pending / to-publish articles + author notification

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 02:39:12PM +1000, Ryan Lerch wrote:
> On 05/19/2015 11:33 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote:
> >Hey all,
> >
> >So - we've had a piece from roshi sitting in "pending" for more than two
> >weeks. If we're going to institute some kind of system where pieces have
> >to be approved / scheduled, we should communicate with the authors and
> >ensure these things are being scheduled / dealt with in a timely manner.
> >
> >* Nothing that's not embargoed should sit longer than a few days,
> >especially when we have a dearth of content.
> >
> >* If a piece needs editing, then we need to communicate that to the author.
> >
> >* If a piece is somehow unsuitable, we need to let the author know.
> >
> >While we have some discussions/plans for a "community focused"
> >blog/publication off in the future, it's not here now. We aren't exactly
> >flooded with content either - there's no good reason not to publish
> >these things on Fedora Magazine for now.
> >
> >Best,
> >
> >jzb
> >
> >
> The workflow i proposed a few weeks back is primarily designed to mitigate a
> lot of this -- having a pitch layer will help prevent articles being written
> that don't fit into the scope of the Magazine.
> 
> Also, the edit flow plugin that is now enabled allows communication between
> the author and editors to communicate.

Last night I logged in and roshi's article was in the Pitch queue, but
maybe it was being moved around and I happened upon it at the right
(or wrong) time.  I don't know whether anyone told roshi what was
happening with the article, though, and that's a problem.

It appears to be in the Pending Review queue right now.  I'm OK
publishing it on F-Mag, with some revisions to cut down on length.  I
was thinking it could focus on the "hero" information, but save the
charts for a link to roshi's blog for the full set of data.

I'm happy to edit it, but physically can't do it until tomorrow
morning at the earliest.

cc'ing roshi to see what he thinks, and to apologize on behalf of the
team for the delay.

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