22:00:24 #startmeeting Magazine editorial board 22:00:24 Meeting started Thu Nov 10 22:00:24 2016 UTC. The chair is stickster. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 22:00:24 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 22:00:24 The meeting name has been set to 'magazine_editorial_board' 22:00:25 #meetingname magazine 22:00:25 The meeting name has been set to 'magazine' 22:00:27 #topic Roll call 22:00:29 .hello pfrields 22:00:29 .hello jflory7 22:00:29 stickster: pfrields 'Paul W. Frields' 22:00:32 jflory7: jflory7 'Justin W. Flory' 22:00:39 .hello ryanlerch 22:00:40 ryanlerch: ryanlerch 'Ryan Lerch' 22:00:48 .hello puiterwijk 22:00:50 puiterwijk: puiterwijk 'Patrick "マルタインアンドレアス" Uiterwijk' 22:01:15 * jflory7 just grabbed dinner so will be a slow typer for a little bit 22:01:19 Evening all :) 22:01:21 no problem jflory7 :-) 22:01:24 #chair ryanlerch puiterwijk jflory7 22:01:24 Current chairs: jflory7 puiterwijk ryanlerch stickster 22:01:32 morning puiterwijk! 22:01:39 ryanlerch: morning! 22:01:42 morning stickster 22:01:44 morning jflory7 22:01:47 hola! o/ 22:01:55 #topic Last week in review 22:02:39 #info Week of Oct 31 -- 44.3K, big dropoff from previous week, almost 1/3 down 22:03:23 It was to be expected, because we had a week with 4-5 posts followed by one with (I think?) 2 or 3 22:03:31 Looks like we'll have to try to keep the momentum for another week until the release as well. 22:03:33 * jflory7 nods 22:03:39 just shows that our readers really do reliably read each one 22:03:50 Sorry again for the very short notice about my absence last week and this week. 22:03:53 stickster: sypically the weeks before a release are pretty low IIRC 22:04:16 It would be interesting to know if the views really do scale arithmetically 22:04:38 jflory7: no worries -- the item last week was really more general than that, since we have plenty of articles promised that don't always materialize 22:04:54 * jflory7 nods 22:05:09 no worries, let's plunge ahead and see if we can pull some together for this next week 22:05:27 #info Special article information 22:05:31 oops 22:05:32 #undo 22:05:32 Removing item from minutes: INFO by stickster at 22:05:27 : Special article information 22:05:38 #topic Special article information 22:06:30 #info This includes (1) the F25 GA release announcement; (2) the What's new in Workstation article; and (3) Upgrading F24 -> F25 22:06:57 #info stickster made an empty shell/template for #1, and wrote up #2 (in Scheduled now) 22:07:11 stickster: for the record, when is GA scheduled for again? 22:07:37 #action jflory7 Begin draft of "Upgrading F24 => F25", get feedback from QA teams / other groups to verify accuracy, no later than Nov. 18 22:07:38 #info GA slipped today, so it's now Tue 2016-Nov-22 22:07:39 ryanlerch: we slipped by a week 22:07:45 Yes, what stickster said 22:08:08 * stickster fixes scheduled date for #2 above 22:08:26 jflory7++ 22:08:49 jflory7: I'm assuming bkp or another Marketing designee is handling content for #1? 22:09:38 stickster: Hmmmm, I'm inclined to say yes, but we should make sure the Magazine is part of the discussion for #1 just in case. 22:09:43 would be a good idea to follow up with bkp. 22:11:06 #action stickster follow up with bkp/Marketing team beyond email to ilst 22:11:08 #undo 22:11:08 Removing item from minutes: ACTION by stickster at 22:11:06 : stickster follow up with bkp/Marketing team beyond email to ilst 22:11:11 #action stickster follow up with bkp/Marketing team beyond email to list 22:12:12 +1. 22:12:39 OK, anything else to do here? 22:12:47 * jflory7 can't think of anything else 22:12:49 Business as usual! 22:12:51 #topic Pending review 22:13:05 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=pending&post_type=post 22:13:16 #info --- Protect privacy in Firefox --- 22:13:31 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=14606&preview=1&_ppp=2c94ee9ca9 22:14:23 I see only a minor change since last revision 22:14:26 * jflory7 is scrolling through 22:14:40 jflory7: do you know the story here? Have we not communicated well enough back to author? 22:15:01 Yeah, we'll probably want a fresh round of screenshots again. I'm a little behind for this specific article, but I'm taking a quick peek at the mailing list again. 22:15:21 * stickster too 22:15:25 She posted on the list last night. 22:15:26 jflory7: I'm writing back to the list now 22:15:32 stickster: Okay, awesome. 22:15:48 * jflory7 notes we'll need to set this article back to "Draft" status for Sylvia to keep editing 22:16:01 done 22:16:08 Perfect. 22:16:53 #action stickster send email to list/author asking for screenshot revisions, and set to draft 22:17:06 #info --- Intro to Hubs --- 22:17:10 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=14310&preview=1&_ppp=e40b43df36 22:17:14 * jflory7 is excited about this one 22:17:40 something is up with the stylingon the first para there 22:17:52 Looking through it now, I think it could use some structural / formatting changes, but the content seems good. 22:18:10 ryanlerch: Yeah, it's like that a little further down too -- probably some sneaky divs or spans added in somewhere 22:18:47 ryanlerch: I took out some divs and saved, but can fix more in a copy edit 22:19:03 stickster: thanks! 22:19:03 We also probably need a featured image here, even though the Fedora teabag is pretty cool. 22:19:11 just some errant divs and tags, yeah 22:19:11 sorry, was just noticing and mentioning :) 22:19:16 ryanlerch++ 22:20:38 this one will probably be a good filler post before the release maybe? 22:21:17 I think so. 22:21:47 hm, hub is a hard image to find that's not too on-the-nose, or too high-energy to be a background 22:22:11 This is pretty though: https://www.flickr.com/photos/130478877@N02/26885642423/ 22:22:23 anyway, yes, +1 on filler post, we could use this next week 22:22:31 * jflory7 sees an airport as a hub 22:22:37 * stickster too 22:22:45 Cool. Do we have an Inkscape article in place for tomorrow? 22:22:47 and lends itself to text ;-) 22:22:51 * jflory7 can't remember but didn't see anything yet 22:22:57 #action stickster do featured image for Intro to Hubs article 22:23:12 jflory7: we don't currently, but i can do that today :) 22:23:25 ryanlerch: that would be the bomb dot com 22:23:27 ryanlerch: Okay, awesome! That will be great to keep the Friday Inkscape momentum going. 22:23:34 since it seems like it is a friday tradtion now :) 22:23:39 haha, fished in 22:23:43 Bomb dot com is a more succinct way of putting it! ;) 22:24:02 <-- so unhip 22:24:14 Let's topic for this 22:24:15 So then the Hubs article can fit into next week easily then, just wanted to make sure tomorrow was covered. 22:24:21 +1 to Drafts 22:24:22 tick tick tick. boom! 22:24:24 #topic pre-Drafts insert 22:24:32 * ryanlerch is cool too 22:24:46 #action ryanlerch to do Inkscape article for publication tomorrow 22:25:03 #topic Drafts 22:25:12 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post&orderby=date&order=desc 22:25:25 Whoa, puiterwijk has a draft going in now, cool 22:25:34 #thatwasfast 22:25:36 :) 22:25:37 stickster: yeah, currently thinking and writing up a few. 22:25:38 #info --- How Fedora Infra is attacking spam --- 22:25:52 Hah. Don't hit preview, you'll be underwhelmed :) 22:25:55 oh, OK 22:25:57 * puiterwijk was not aware it'd be visible right away 22:26:05 puiterwijk: maybe this is a pitch instead? whatever, doesn't matter :-) 22:26:17 stickster: I ddin't put it in a category yet... 22:26:25 I literally clicked Create and entered a title :) 22:26:28 maybe the post was deemed to be spam, hence the blank page? 22:26:34 ;) 22:26:35 ryanlerch: :D 22:26:43 lolol, ryanlerch! 22:26:46 basset++ 22:27:02 Oh, did we hear back from cpacheco yet? 22:27:48 puiterwijk: i like the concept on this one, though 22:28:15 Cool :). Was just about to write a pitch and then request ack/nack :) 22:28:35 * jflory7 thought that both of puiterwijk's Flock talks (Basset / spam attacks and RPM OS-Tree) would be good articles on the more technical side. 22:28:35 Basically a write-up of my Very Busy Flock talk :) 22:28:48 y 22:28:55 oops 22:29:22 > You just said yes, and we are now running rm -rf / 22:30:00 ;) 22:30:18 stickster: Do you know if cpacheco got back on the qcow2 article? 22:30:32 * jflory7 remembers she was going to work on it but didn't see any emails since 22:30:34 so +1 on this one staying a draft from me 22:30:39 jflory7: Hm, I don't think she has 22:30:47 Oh, I'm definitely +1 on the spam attack article 22:30:48 wait, maybe she has 22:30:53 it's been altered in the last couple days 22:30:56 stickster: Looks like it was edited Monday. 22:30:58 Yep 22:31:07 Yes, she's been there, or someone has! 22:31:30 big time! 22:31:39 * stickster bets there's not much more work to do on this one 22:31:48 I'd be willing to edit this weekend for a Monday post 22:32:10 Definitely! 22:32:16 +1 to that. 22:32:21 cpacheco++ 22:32:37 #info --- qcow2 Rawhide images --- 22:32:42 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=15006&preview=1&_ppp=73ab178e66 22:33:09 #action stickster to finish editing this weekend for Monday publication 22:33:22 #nick cpacheco 22:33:25 cpacheco++ 22:33:25 stickster: Karma for cpacheco changed to 3 (for the f24 release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 22:33:43 let's see, what's next 22:34:01 #info --- Minecraft in Fedora! --- 22:34:13 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=15131&preview=1&_ppp=070054a02f 22:34:17 Hmmm… I think I can get this one out for next week 22:34:23 jflory7: maybe for next Wed? 22:34:47 Okay, yeah... I can commit to that. 22:35:03 * jflory7 will have a lot of time on a bus this weekend to do some writing 22:35:34 jflory7: okey dokey 22:35:41 #action jflory7 Create, edit, and schedule the "Minecraft in Fedora" article for Wednesday, Nov. 16 22:35:45 boom! 22:36:15 * jflory7 thinks he could tackle a featured image... 22:36:19 #info --- Network namespace --- 22:36:24 Wonder if the Minecraft logo is fair game for this purpose 22:36:31 Not sure if that would be classified as fair use 22:36:32 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=14995&preview=1&_ppp=0a13ca97fb 22:37:13 jflory7: in my theoretical experience, I think we should not if you're not sure, since you'd be better safe than sorry I'd say 22:37:55 Hmmm, I think this article is missing the story component to it. It's several steps but I have no idea what these are enabling me to do exactly. 22:37:58 jflory7: from their guidelines, it's possible it'd be OK, but I think avoid it just to save time/effort 22:37:59 Especially given the scope et al of the companies that you might get on your neck (or Fedora's) 22:38:11 yup 22:38:21 puiterwijk, stickster: Yeah, definitely better to play it safe. I'll do something original, shouldn't be too hard for this. 22:38:33 jflory7: just anything with 8 bits, not? L:D 22:38:35 :D 22:38:41 puiterwijk: Heheh, essentially. :) 22:38:57 jflory7: This article came directly from our "easy howto" brainstorm 22:38:58 jflory7: there is one i did a while back for the spigot article IIRC 22:39:27 * jflory7 nods to both stickster and ryanlerch 22:39:31 jflory7: so it was designed not to tell a whole story, but just literally tell people how to get and install Minecraft, and go somewhere else for more in-depth help with minecraft itself 22:39:49 probably will barely end up over 300-400 words 22:39:50 stickster: Oh, sorry, the storytelling line above is out of context. 22:39:51 Hah. The network namespace one is fun, as I was planning to submit something SDN next. But guess someone else already got that pitch and won it :) 22:39:55 Meant that for the Network namespace article. 22:40:13 oh, I gotcha! 22:40:20 jflory7: It seems more like a simple howto as well 22:41:01 I think I get the point of how it's useful, but not entirely sure 22:41:16 I think with some polish on intro/conclusion and maybe screenshots, this will be nicer. As it is, though, it's confusing about what the end result really is. 22:42:48 mmm, nod 22:43:09 Like lay out a whole use case top to bottom 22:43:19 Here's what I'm trying to achieve, here's how we get there 22:43:29 Precisely. 22:44:19 #action stickster give review on list to get some revision, but this stays active 22:44:48 #info --- C99 features --- 22:44:58 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=14646&preview=1&_ppp=2edea0e0cf 22:45:19 still nothing new from the author after sending back request for revision, and some technical review from a guy in the compiler tools team at RH 22:45:23 * jflory7 admittedly lost track of this one and it doesn't seem like it's been edited in over a month 22:46:25 It seems like this article is almost there... would be nice if it could be finished off with preformatted blocks and then some sort of wrap-up / conclusion at the end. 22:46:29 He emailed me back on Oct 27 saying he needed some time but would make changes 22:46:41 * stickster thinks, let's leave it there, I"ll email to remind, and next week we move on it 22:46:52 That sounds like a good plan of action. 22:47:07 #action stickster email author to remind about edits 22:47:25 #action jflory7 to wield axe next meeting if needed (go/no-go for this article) 22:48:03 Can do! 22:48:15 stickster: Will you be absent next week? 22:48:31 jflory7: Hrm 22:48:36 Not that I know of 22:49:17 just saying, as EIC you're welcome to make the call, I didn't want to come off as dictatorial :-) 22:50:01 Ahh, gotcha. No, sounds fine to me! 22:50:08 okey dokey :-) 22:50:15 :D 22:51:15 #info --- Starting with Python --- 22:51:21 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=14577&preview=1&_ppp=b1fe9ff5a5 22:52:09 * jflory7 notes x3mboy was taking lead on this one 22:52:30 * jflory7 isn't sure if he's been able to work ahead on it or not 22:53:05 No edits since Sept-29 22:53:29 Might need to ping him next time he is in channel. 22:55:03 yeah 22:55:14 #nick x3mboy 22:55:22 #action jflory7 stickster ping x3mboy about this article next time we catch up in IRC channel 22:55:37 * jflory7 will keep an eye out for him 22:55:41 jflory7: should we round up schedule before we run out of time? 22:55:48 Yeah, let's do so. 22:55:51 #topic Publishing schedule for next week 22:56:01 And we can give a quick +1 to the only pitch (creating business cards with Inkscape) 22:56:06 #info Friday Nov-11: Inkscape by ryanlerch 22:56:12 jflory7: "only pitch"? :( 22:56:15 Refresh? :) 22:56:21 oh ha 22:56:22 Ohh! 22:56:27 +1 to biz cards with Inkscape! 22:57:02 I'm +1 to the other two pitches in there too :) 22:57:09 +1 to spam article, although "defend" might be better than "attack" 22:57:39 +1 to Atomic article, maybe title as "Using Fedora's Atomic host" 22:57:46 title TBD :-) 22:57:53 +1 22:58:00 stickster: well, problem is I can't really do that, but let's discuss somewhere else about that one :) 22:58:03 (channel) 22:58:04 oh 22:58:12 Well, not with the current ideas. 22:58:16 puiterwijk: OK, let's wait for the article and set the title based on that 22:58:17 I can make it just fedora atomic host 22:58:21 +1 22:58:48 +1 to all of the above. 22:59:37 #info Mon Nov-14: qcow2 Rawhide, pfrields finishing edits 22:59:47 #info Wed Nov-16: installing Minecraft, jflory doing this 23:00:04 what about next Friday? 23:00:13 * stickster could also finish edits on Intro to Hubs for then 23:00:16 * jflory7 remembers the Inkscape article in the holding pen 23:00:25 ryanlerch: Too soon for "Inkscape: Getting started with layers"? 23:00:55 ryanlerch: what if you edited the Hubs article for next Friday? 23:01:01 or what jflory7 said :-D 23:01:18 * jflory7 isn't sure if ryanlerch felt the layers article would be too much of a jump for next Friday or not 23:01:33 I think we were going to actually check in on this this week to see how we felt? 23:02:35 ryanlerch: still with us? 23:03:19 * jflory7 wonders if ryanlerch became entangled with a kangaroo :P 23:03:21 heh 23:03:27 Might be best to follow up in a bit 23:03:34 We have a little flexibility until Friday. 23:03:35 jflory7: How about I'll try to edit the Hubs article so we have it in the hopper 23:03:38 :-) 23:03:43 stickster: Sounds perfect to me. 23:03:53 If we do decide Inkscape, then Hubs on Monday before release day. 23:03:54 #info TENTATIVE: Fri Nov-18: Intro to hubs, pfrields will edit 23:03:57 yup! 23:04:05 :100: 23:04:13 Nothing else from me here then! 23:04:15 shipit 23:04:52 * jflory7 goes to reply to some specific threads on the list if stickster wants to grab minutes 23:04:54 Thanks for coming, everyone! 23:04:56 #endmeeting