21:00:05 <stickster> #startmeeting Magazine editorial board
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21:00:07 <stickster> #topic Roll call
21:00:09 <stickster> .hello pfrields
21:00:10 <zodbot> stickster: pfrields 'Paul W. Frields' <stickster@gmail.com>
21:00:13 <ryanlerch> .hello ryanlerch
21:00:14 <zodbot> ryanlerch: ryanlerch 'Ryan Lerch' <rlerch@redhat.com>
21:00:23 <ryanlerch> good morning stickster!
21:00:26 <stickster> hola ryan!
21:00:35 <stickster> jwf: you around?
21:01:19 <stickster> #chair jwf ryanlerch
21:01:19 <zodbot> Current chairs: jwf ryanlerch stickster
21:02:47 <sbrady1[m]> Hello
21:02:52 <stickster> sbrady1[m]: howdy!
21:03:00 <ryanlerch> morning sbrady1[m]
21:03:11 <stickster> I think I saw kthebyrd was joining us too
21:03:14 <kthebyrd> Hello all
21:03:17 <stickster> yay!
21:03:18 * jwf waves back
21:03:20 <jwf> .hello jflory7
21:03:22 <zodbot> jwf: jflory7 'Justin W. Flory' <jflory7@gmail.com>
21:03:26 <stickster> #chair sbrady1[m] kthebyrd
21:03:26 <zodbot> Current chairs: jwf kthebyrd ryanlerch sbrady1[m] stickster
21:03:34 <stickster> WOW! THE RETURN OF THE GREAT JUSTIN FLORY!!!!!1!!!
21:03:47 <stickster> our esteemed EIC ;-D
21:04:00 <stickster> We barely broke anything while you were out... kinda
21:04:10 <stickster> #topic Last week's stats
21:04:18 <jwf> Hahahah, too long of a delay for me! :)
21:04:34 <jwf> Got the firewall situation figured out, finally :)
21:05:12 <stickster> #info Week of Jun 26 = 40.6K views, down slightly from week before and continuing lower trend but this is fairly normal for summer
21:05:40 <sbrady1[m]> Morning:)
21:06:30 <jwf> kthebyrd, sbrady1[m]: Welcome welcome!
21:06:49 <stickster> #info June ~199.1K views, vs. May 217.1K, April 226.5K... again, summer is always slower. Note these numbers are up almost 50% for Apr/May y/y; June is not but that was a release month in 2016
21:07:04 <stickster> I expect July will blow the roof off
21:07:21 <stickster> jwf: eggscellent :-)
21:07:46 <ryanlerch> stickster: yeah, a release should helpus out a bit
21:07:46 <jwf> Not like we have a release coming or anything. ;)
21:07:51 <stickster> right!
21:07:55 <stickster> #topic Release info
21:08:02 <ryanlerch> i hear it's a go for Tuesday!
21:08:04 <stickster> #info F26 GA is *go* for Tue Jul 11
21:08:13 <ryanlerch> jinx
21:08:24 <jwf> We should be on track for a proper 1M page views before the end of the year…
21:08:41 <stickster> #info stickster reminded folks in the readiness meeting that we expect a draft of the announcement in the Magazine in advance, and stickster can be ready to push the Publish button when ready
21:08:51 <jwf> I'll put my name down for the upgrade article and solicit feedback from some of the QA folks
21:08:54 <sbrady1[m]> Cool
21:08:57 <stickster> jwf: FANTASTIC!Q
21:09:17 <stickster> #action jwf will write customary upgrade article
21:09:59 <stickster> Anything else release related we should cover before reviewing queued articles and pitches?
21:10:50 <ryanlerch> stickster: the announcment?
21:10:50 <jwf> I think mostly having a game plan for release week next week is best. Is x3mboy[m] around? Maybe he knows the status on a release announcement draft.
21:10:51 <ryanlerch> mattdm: maybe too
21:10:51 <jwf> It would be good to make sure we don't duplicate efforts there.
21:11:37 <mattdm> jwf, ryanlerch I am writing something
21:11:39 <stickster> jwf: he was in the release readiness meeting when I mentioned the announcement, as was mattdm
21:11:44 <mattdm> but right now i am writing it in my head :)
21:11:52 <stickster> ah, speak of the... well, not devil, he's pretty nice actually
21:12:31 <stickster> mattdm: Do you think a draft out by Monday afternoon?
21:12:43 <jwf> !
21:13:07 <stickster> go4it jwf
21:13:27 <jwf> It would help if someone could grab a picture like this before the release day: https://cdn.fedoramagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/gnome-software-f24-f25-upgrade.png
21:13:39 <jwf> s/help/helpful
21:13:45 <ryanlerch> jwf: i can do that one!
21:14:06 <jwf> ryanlerch: Awesome! Thanks. You can either upload it to the media library or just drop it in the article I'm going to save in another five minutes or so
21:14:10 <stickster> #action ryanlerch capture f25-26 upgrade picture from gnome-software
21:14:21 <stickster> like a well oiled machine
21:14:55 <ryanlerch> #action ryanlerch to do featured image for upgrade article too
21:14:55 <stickster> boom
21:14:56 <ryanlerch> #action ryanlerch to do featured image for release annoucnement
21:15:38 <jwf> That draft is here: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=17971&preview=1&_ppp=0dcd79e67b
21:15:42 <jwf> Albeit needing some more edits
21:16:01 <ryanlerch> jwf: not sure how easy it will be to capture that image...
21:16:01 <ryanlerch> might have to mock it up
21:16:04 <jwf> ryanlerch: Maybe someone in QA could help?
21:16:17 * jwf tries to remember how we did it last time – maybe sesivany provided that?
21:16:21 <stickster> ryanlerch: I usually set up a previous version VM, then twiddle the gnome-software JSON file for downloads
21:16:33 <stickster> it's somewhere in .cache/gnome-software or something like that
21:16:51 <jwf> Oh, if sub_pop[m] gets the first upgrade article done before release, I can actually link to his article for a backup guide in the upgrade article
21:16:57 <ryanlerch> stickster: okay, will have a go, and if that fails, will talk to hughsie when he comes online later today
21:17:09 <jwf> #idea For upgrade article, linking back internally to the forthcoming backup series (if ready by release day)
21:17:36 <stickster> ryanlerch: Yeah, change the F26 stanza from "Under Development" status to "Active" and you should see it appear shortly
21:17:53 <stickster> ryanlerch: ~/.cache/gnome-software/3.22/upgrades/fedora.json
21:18:09 <ryanlerch> stickster: thanks!
21:18:58 <stickster> Shall we look at review posts, etc. now?
21:19:10 <ryanlerch> stickster: +1
21:19:21 <stickster> Oh, quick bit of info too...
21:19:21 <jwf> +1
21:19:47 <stickster> #topic Interjection by Yr. Humble Servant
21:20:19 <stickster> #info stickster will be offline from basically the next hour until Sunday evening, mostly without any computer access
21:21:00 <stickster> So I can't catch up on Magazine until Monday morning. But I'll be able to help with release activities and everything else normally at that point.
21:21:11 * jwf nods
21:21:15 <jwf> Good to know.
21:21:17 <stickster> Just in case you don't see me jump up to volunteer for things tomorrow/Monday, that's why
21:21:26 <stickster> #topic Pending review
21:21:35 <stickster> #info --- All the JWF Articles(tm) ---
21:21:59 <jwf> Ack!
21:22:26 <jwf> stickster: I'm a little behind on the mailing list this week if there was a verdict there about pts. 3 and 4
21:22:47 <stickster> So I did have some input from dustymabe on these -- he asked whether it was possible to show at least side-by-side doing deployment to OpenShift on AWS, along with CoreOS Tectonic if desired
21:23:19 <stickster> If I knew how to do that I'd have added it, but I'm not very cloud-conversant
21:23:48 <stickster> I did find this: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/06/red-hat-openshift-on-the-aws-cloud-quick-start-reference-deployment/
21:24:50 <stickster> huh, that's out of date
21:25:23 <stickster> No quickstart either! Boo OpenShift! (I mean, I love you, but this isn't good) :-(
21:25:27 <jwf> Hmm, I wonder if you could put Tectonic into OpenShift… honestly not sure, but I could poke around next week. My knowledge on OpenShift is a little less for how it compares to Tectonic (my understanding is that they're different things, but I really haven't dug in). I could look into it, but it might affect the delivery date for the next part in the series if I need to do significant rewriting.
21:25:52 <stickster> maybe the point is not OpenShift on AWS I guess :-) -- yeah, just deploying to OpenShift itself
21:26:03 <jwf> Maybe I can poke dustymabe too and have a conversation with him
21:26:32 <stickster> they're different but I think it may be easy to pick up jwf -- I took some beginners' openshift training last week and it was super-impressive and seemed not too far over my head (so probably a piece of cake for you)
21:26:45 * jwf nods
21:26:49 <jwf> Okay, this is good to know!
21:27:10 <jwf> Then I'm more than willing to take an action for making some changes to pts. 3 and 4
21:27:15 <jwf> Pt. 2 should be good for tomorrow.
21:27:51 <jwf> I think we figured out the silly problem for good that x3mboy[m] bumped into, but I don't know if he ran it through again
21:27:55 <jwf> But I'm pretty sure it should be fine
21:28:07 <jwf> I just linked to the Darwin CPU build by mistake
21:28:16 <stickster> Ah, nice
21:28:38 <ryanlerch> so are we thinking #2 here for today?
21:28:51 <stickster> jwf: I know you may not feel comfortable voting on your own articles, but I'd love to see #2 out soon, either tomorrow or Monday
21:29:04 <stickster> it's OK if it's a couple weeks to #3 even
21:29:13 <stickster> (IMHO)
21:29:14 <jwf> I was really confident for #2 tomorrow, that one shouldn't have any issues
21:29:35 <ryanlerch> +1 from me on #2 tomorrow
21:29:39 <stickster> +1
21:29:44 <kthebyrd> +1
21:29:55 <ryanlerch> and +1 to it not being and issue that they are spread out a bit
21:29:57 <stickster> #agreed Kubernetes #2 out tomorrow (Fri Jul 07)
21:30:08 <stickster> #topic Drafts
21:30:13 <stickster> #link https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post
21:30:48 <stickster> #info --- backup articles ---
21:31:04 * stickster notes that sub_pop[m] has both a duplicity and a duply article in now! Looking awesome
21:31:14 <jwf> Oh, awesome!
21:31:23 <jwf> I would really like to check in with him about maybe shipping one on Monday
21:31:42 <jwf> Then we could cross-link it in the upgrade article as a backup guide, and the upgrade articles get 25k+ views pretty easily
21:31:54 <jwf> (Currently it's pointing to a pkgdb link of deja-dup)
21:31:55 <stickster> jwf: he told us he wanted to wait until all three were done... but if you can convince him, yeah -- would be awesome to have part #1 out for that!
21:32:15 <jwf> I can fire out on the list since he's not around tonight, will do that now
21:32:28 <stickster> jwf: since pkgdb is going to vanish some weeks from now, yeah, a better link would be great
21:33:06 <stickster> #action jwf contact Link to see if he'll give go-ahead for backup article #1 on Monday July 10
21:33:56 * jwf nods
21:34:00 <stickster> #info --- Python Classroom Lab ---
21:34:02 <stickster> #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=17958&preview=1&_ppp=1a8c079676
21:34:08 <stickster> ryanlerch: this looks like one of yours?
21:34:33 <ryanlerch> stickster: yeah, this is one i did up yesterday, as a backup for today's post
21:34:42 <stickster> ryanlerch: this is fantastic!
21:34:45 <ryanlerch> in case jwf was not ready to go
21:34:48 * stickster <3 Python
21:35:19 <ryanlerch> still waiting on a response from churchyard on if the content is ok
21:35:20 <stickster> ryanlerch: Maybe we should say tentatively Wed July 12 for this, *if* jwf can get Link's OK to put the backup article out Monday
21:35:38 * jwf would love to have this go out next week for sure, preferably hot on the release
21:35:46 <ryanlerch> stickster: yeah, will just need to change a bit of it -- it was written for a pre-release publish
21:35:52 <jwf> I think this is an exciting topic that's new for F26
21:36:04 <khris> i wholly agree
21:36:20 <sbrady1[m]> That looks very interesting
21:36:54 <stickster> ryanlerch: gotcha... hopefully not too bad to tweak, though?
21:37:19 <ryanlerch> stickster: not at all
21:37:32 <stickster> #agreed tentatively schedule Python Classroom Lab post for Wed Jul 12 (if we get backup #1 out Mon Jul 10); otherwise it could go out Mon Jul 10 if desired
21:37:56 <stickster> That's the end of drafts
21:38:02 <stickster> #topic Pitches
21:38:03 <stickster> #link https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=pitch&post_type=post
21:38:18 <stickster> #info --- Smartcards for DoD sites ---
21:38:22 <stickster> #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=17967&preview=true
21:39:56 * jwf clicks
21:40:33 <ryanlerch> kthebyrd: this is your pitch?
21:40:47 <khris> Yes
21:40:52 <stickster> So I love the idea of an article on smartcards. The audience for this seems a little tight; is there a way to also include some information about other uses for smartcards in the wild?
21:41:16 <stickster> because of course we want lots of our readers to click on the article and read it
21:41:40 <khris> Certainly; I could probably mention yubikey as well, but i noticed you guys already published on that topic
21:42:05 <stickster> also -- side note -- I emailed list earlier about this, but it looks like 'coolkey' is not really the 'cool kid' in town (heh)... nowadays it's OpenSC, is it possible to set that up the same way?
21:42:52 <khris> I haven't directly used OpenSC, just because when I was initially testing I noted there were compatibility issues with certain card readers and openSC
21:43:23 <khris> I went coolkey instead of OpenSC (or even CACkey) as it seemed to have to most stable, reproductive results
21:44:02 <khris> And if you'd like, I can mention enterprise applications that would use smartcards for 2fa, such as Centrify or Quest
21:46:50 <ryanlerch> i do like this idea -- khris is the use of the firefox config pretty generic?
21:47:54 <khris> Yes. In theory, the coolkey library could be switched out for any other library providing the same service. It's just that some libraries have issues reading the data from DoD smartcards
21:48:51 <khris> Under firefox menu: Preferences -> Advanced -> Security Devices
21:49:07 <khris> That's where the shared library is specified to be loaded
21:52:46 * jwf isn't that knowledgeable on the subject, but also likes this idea
21:53:27 <jwf> khris: I think it will be more widely used if we can keep it generic, but I also think it should be important to keep the specific points for a DoD setup in there too. I just don't know how much that means the content has to be changed.
21:53:58 <jwf> khris: Including what you just mentioned here would be helpful information for someone using another option as well.
21:55:35 <ryanlerch> this one is a+1 from me if we can make it a little more generic
21:56:56 <khris> Ok. I can try to expand/widen the topic so it addresses enterprise environments & touches on DoD CAC's as an example?
21:57:02 <jwf> I'm also +1 with the same idea.
21:57:07 <jwf> khris: I like this direction!
21:57:42 <jwf> It's tough for me to give more specific feedback here, but I think this would be a great topic to cover about smartcards, because I don't think we have a whole lot of content for that. At least, not as far as I can remember.
21:58:23 <jwf> khris: I think you should go ahead and begin working on a draft, and then if you have any questions while you're writing it if it should be more generic or if something is working, you can always drop into #fedora-magazine.
21:58:26 <khris> That's completely understand. I had no luck finding any info on smartcards when I first started looking a while back
21:58:45 <khris> Sounds good to me!
21:59:24 <jwf> khris: Think you have a general ETA in mind for when you might have a first draft?
21:59:39 * jwf thinks stickster is away from keyboard, so will put an #agreed on this in just a sec :)
22:00:15 <khris> I believe I could have something by early-mid next week.
22:00:23 <khris> Tuesday-wednesday ish?
22:00:37 <jwf> khris: We'll give you the extra day. :)
22:00:40 <jwf> #agreed khris will begin writing first draft of smartcard + Fedora how-to article and aim to keep it general for other smartcard tools / libraries; ETA for a first draft is Wednesday
22:00:48 <khris> haha thanks
22:01:25 <ryanlerch> stickster: i think with the release, we are pretty much set now for this week, right?
22:01:38 <jwf> I think for pitches, this should be okay for the time being.
22:01:49 <jwf> We can rehash the publishing schedule now?
22:02:01 <jwf> #topic Publishing schedule
22:02:09 <jwf> I'll pencil it out first to make sure it sounds right for you all too
22:03:36 <jwf> #proposed PUBLISHING SCHEDULE: Fri, July 7: Kubernetes pt. 2; Mon, July 10: Backups pt.1 / Python Classroom Lab; Tue, July 11: F26 announcement, F25=>F26 upgrade article; Wed, July 12: …?
22:03:43 <jwf> ryanlerch: Did we have anything for July 12?
22:04:05 <ryanlerch> yeah the python classroom one i think
22:04:13 <jwf> Maybe the Classroom Lab if we do the backup pt. 1 on Monday
22:04:19 <jwf> Yeah
22:04:37 <ryanlerch> sounds good to me!
22:04:54 <jwf> We can pencil it in tentatively for the Classroom Lab, if we publish the backups pt.1, otherwise, let's figure it out next week on Tuesday once the release rush dies down a bit
22:05:06 <jwf> (I'll likely be out of pocket on Monday)
22:05:19 <jwf> Since we're five minutes over, I'll go ahead and log it and close out.
22:05:27 <ryanlerch> woot thanks jwf!
22:05:40 <jwf> #agreed PUBLISHING SCHEDULE: Fri, July 7: Kubernetes pt. 2; Mon, July 10: Backups pt.1 / Python Classroom Lab; Tue, July 11: F26 announcement, F25=>F26 upgrade article; Wed, July 12: Python Classroom Lab (if backups pt.1 on Monday)
22:05:49 <jwf> Busy week coming. :D
22:06:06 <jwf> And maybe k8s pt. 3 if I can rewrite in time for Friday, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there
22:06:13 <jwf> #topic Open floor
22:06:24 <jwf> Anything else to bring up now before closing out?
22:06:47 <jwf> Oh, ryanlerch, did you have a featured image for the k8s pt. 2 article?
22:06:51 <jwf> If so, I'll schedule it now
22:07:19 <jwf> Ah, I don't see one yet
22:07:29 <jwf> ryanlerch: Do you think you'd be able to recycle last week's pretty easily?
22:09:15 * jwf has a sharp end time, so have to cut out now
22:09:32 <jwf> I'll tentatively action this between stickster / ryanlerch for tomorrow
22:10:12 <jwf> #action ryanlerch / stickster Recycle last week's featured image for "Clustered computing on Fedora with Minikube", schedule article for tomorrow once image is added
22:10:25 <jwf> Okay, thanks for coming out today, everyone!
22:10:45 <jwf> khris++ sbrady1++ Thanks for being here too, happy to have some new faces here :)
22:10:45 <zodbot> jwf: Karma for sbrady1 changed to 3 (for the f25 release cycle):  https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any
22:10:50 <jwf> #endmeeting