Fedora News IRC meeting?

[Dale Bewley]

----- "Pascal Calarco" <pcalarco at nd.edu> wrote:
> Hi Fedora News team --
> So far we have the following confirmed for an IRC meeting on Friday, 
> January 30 at 13:00-14:00 UTC:
 
> Dale, I think you are the sole beat writer from western North America.
> 
> Obviously, this time is too early for you.  I'd like to propose that 
> Oisin and I have a separate chat with you so you have a chance to weigh
> in on the agenda issues.  For future meetings, we could also see if the
> time could be moved forward, and we can see who is available then.

Oops. Didn't see this one. That's fine. 

Perhaps for the agenda:

= Linking names to user pages =
Ian Weller, expressed[1] concern with FWN's use of
CamelCase linking to user pages in the wiki. Since users can have arbitrary
usernames completely unrelated to their full name, it is impractical for us to
manually link to User:foo.

Also, I can imagine a desire to link to info for
people who have no wiki account, but maybe that's just my imagination.

If there were an extension we could use to reference humans in a form such
as {{person|Dale Bewley}} and have it derive the
appropriate User:page where it exists that would be very helpful.

I haven't yet checked to see if this topic is being discussed on the docs or
wiki lists.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_talk:Dale

= Linking to archived postings =
I've lately been trying to consciously avoid referencing mailing list or wiki
pages using HTTPS. HTTPS links necessitate a heavier load on client, server,
and network. Encryption takes work on both ends and breaks proxy caches.

Once you've logged into the wiki, it unfortunately(?) directs all traffic over
Even the listinfo pages[1] use https to link to their archives.
SSL, so a copy/paste is going to require editing. 

I know I've seen a reference arguing the same concept, but can't find it
right now.

[1] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
--
Dale