Pending / to-publish articles + author notification

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Tue May 26 14:36:32 UTC 2015


On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:51:46AM -0600, Mike Ruckman wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 02:49:48PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> We can always take a look at the format when it comes to the magazine.
> For F21 I split it out into three articles due to the size. Having the
> tables in there is just "how we've done it," not a hard and fast
> requirement - but I'd for sure want a link to the actual data somewhere,
> since the data is kinda the point of the article.
> 
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> No worries - it happens. There was actually no need to CC me, I'm
> subscribed to the list and do some marketing specific stuff from time to
> time. I used to be an editor on the magazine, but that got rescinded
> with the new workflow.

Hopefully others agree but I'd be happy to put you in as an editor.  I
think we swept through and removed a bunch of people we hadn't heard
from recently.  It takes only a moment to restore that access.

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