20:00:41 #startmeeting Magazine editorial board 20:00:41 Meeting started Wed Sep 26 20:00:41 2018 UTC. 20:00:41 This meeting is logged and archived in a public location. 20:00:41 The chair is stickster. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 20:00:41 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 20:00:41 The meeting name has been set to 'magazine_editorial_board' 20:00:43 #meetingname magazine 20:00:43 The meeting name has been set to 'magazine' 20:00:48 .hello ryanlerch 20:00:48 #topic Roll call 20:00:48 ryanlerch: ryanlerch 'Ryan Lerch' 20:00:54 .hello pfrields 20:00:55 stickster: pfrields 'Paul W. Frields' 20:00:58 .hello linkdupont 20:00:59 sub_pop: linkdupont 'Link Dupont' 20:01:04 .hello2 20:01:06 bcotton: bcotton 'Ben Cotton' 20:01:09 hi stickster! sorry jumped the gun a little there! 20:01:17 no worries 20:01:31 .hello2 20:01:32 asamalik: asamalik 'Adam Samalik' 20:01:45 Hi everyone! Happy beta week. I'm going to jump right in. I have to leave immediately after our hour tonight :-) 20:01:45 hello 20:02:00 #chair ryanlerch sub_pop bcotton asamalik cverna 20:02:00 Current chairs: asamalik bcotton cverna ryanlerch stickster sub_pop 20:02:52 good morning! good evening! good afternoon! 20:04:24 #topic Last week stats 20:05:23 #info Week of September 17: ~63.7K pageviews, down vs. previous week but still respectable 20:05:34 We're still on track for best September ever :-) 20:05:44 nice :) 20:05:44 Any comments on this before we move on? 20:05:58 this will be best year ever :) 20:06:05 bcotton: fyi, we're just using the standard Jetpack plugin for stats. 20:06:20 stickster: thanks 20:06:58 For the year, we're at a little over 2.54M pageviews. Our goal is 3.5M so we have some work to do 20:07:34 That's about 72.4% of goal, with a little over 25% of the year left! 20:07:54 #topic Pending review posts 20:07:58 with the f29 release kick I think we should be able to reach 3.5M 20:08:00 stickster: + a release too though 20:08:09 ah, good point! 20:08:23 #info --- 5 tiling WMs -- 20:08:35 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=22552&preview=1&_ppp=685bee7bba 20:08:41 I converted the python xar article to that 20:08:47 Thank you for the contribution here, cverna 20:08:56 #info stickster edited tiling WM article already 20:09:06 So this just needs an image 20:09:13 after looking at XAR it seems very specific to facebook use case and does not seems to have much traction or interest 20:09:21 assign that to me! 20:09:23 stickster: thanks for the edit 20:10:10 cverna: ah, that's disappointing, but I can see why you grabbed a new topic in that case. Thanks for doing that, it was over and above the call of duty :-) 20:10:23 cverna++ 20:10:30 cverna++ 20:10:44 #action ryanlerch do image for tiling WM article 20:11:18 #info --- Upscaling with waifu2x --- 20:11:20 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=22522&preview=1&_ppp=65aef04401 20:11:38 atolstoy got this done over last week too... so it probably still needs an edit. 20:11:58 * cverna likes the xmas hotdog 20:12:13 lmao 20:12:27 I'm beyond thrilled to see Beefy Miracle in this article 20:12:34 it was the name of a release Beefy Miracle isn't hit ? 20:12:37 yup 20:12:46 https://beefymiracle.org/ 20:12:59 * asamalik has a hot dog sticker on his laptop 20:13:22 ha cool :) 20:13:42 Those stickers are in high demand, if anyone still has them. 20:13:42 * cverna has to read this https://beefymiracle.org/history.html 20:13:55 haha 20:14:13 omg yes please plymouth-theme-hot-dog-0.4 20:14:50 Anyone want to take editing on this waifu2x article? 20:15:01 (not to derail the meaty conversation) 20:15:19 stickster: i can edit! 20:15:28 I can take it! 20:15:32 ryanlerch: you're just signing up for all the fun today :-D 20:15:43 asamalik: i concede. 20:15:49 🌭 20:16:13 #action asamalik edit waifu2x article 20:17:12 asamalik: one thing to keep in mind -- we had this previous article on upscaling: https://fedoramagazine.org/upscale-bitmap-images-better-results/ 20:17:27 would be good to point back to it in this article as well 20:17:40 never pass up a shot at extra page hits ;-) 20:17:52 :D 20:18:06 stickster: I like how you think, sir :D 20:18:09 * asamalik is taking a note 20:18:12 haha 20:18:31 I'm afraid, gentlefolk, that is all the new business. Nothing else has come in since last week 20:19:02 * stickster suggests we make one more post either Thursday or Friday this week, another on Monday, and then we now have to figure out Wednesday+. 20:19:13 Thankfully the Beta saved our butts :-) 20:19:22 beta++ 20:19:23 cverna: Karma for beta changed to 1 (for the current release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 20:19:27 \o/ 20:19:36 haha 20:19:42 beta++ 20:19:42 ryanlerch: Karma for beta changed to 2 (for the current release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 20:19:46 I like to play the fas nickname lotto 20:19:49 right 20:20:00 #topic Additional article inputs 20:20:26 sub_pop: talk to us about the 15yr article. What is happening now, and what needs to happen next? 20:20:56 We need to send those questions to the "old folks" and I need to prose-ify my article. 20:21:12 I own a Tour of f29 screencast for the Fedora youtube channel maybe we could have an article with a video once it is done 20:21:25 sub_pop: not to sound too snarky, but who is "we"? 20:21:35 Me or someone else 20:21:44 lol 20:22:10 *nod -- Do you need help with these emails? 20:22:25 More specifically, (1) compile the names and contact info, (2) send the questions; (3) nag for responses 20:22:46 I can probably get them dug up based on the names we dropped a couple weeks ago and .fasinfo 20:23:06 sub_pop: On (1), I can help you there so you're not on your own. 20:23:11 I just need to Make It So. 20:23:34 #action stickster compile names/contact info for those people mentioned in 2018-09-19 meeting for 15year article interviews 20:24:03 sub_pop: do you feel you have a suitable email for folks once you have that list of emails? 20:24:12 er, s/emails/addresses/ 20:24:28 I can draft one pretty quickly. 20:24:56 I have those 3 questions we came up with. Along with an intro about why we're asking them, I think that'll be sufficient. 20:25:08 sub_pop: OK. Feel free to drop it on e.g. fpaste.org and ask for input in #fedora-magazine if you feel you need it. Whatever you're comfortable with. If I can offer only one suggestion, it's set a reply-by deadline :-) 20:25:20 Yep. 20:25:47 #action sub_pop draft request email for 15yr interviewees 20:25:53 * cverna is looking forward for these articles 20:27:02 as for nagging... I'm sure we can help with that down the road 20:27:12 Yea, it'll be fun. Playing with the libvirt image is a huge nostalgia trip for me. 20:27:17 :-) 20:27:33 I've even fixed up the yum.conf repos to point to archive.fedoraproject.org haha 20:27:52 So it has the latest fc1 updates! 20:28:23 nice 20:28:41 ah wow 20:29:04 cool :) 20:29:06 sub_pop++ 20:29:07 * asamalik started on Fedora 19 and feels like a baby 20:29:43 * cverna started on f22 :P 20:30:03 Oh man, I'm old :( 20:30:17 * sub_pop pats his Red Hat 7.2 box 20:30:35 In other news, somehow I forgot to email patxi so I just remedied that 20:30:46 I would love to see this Proton article out 20:30:51 that's all the rage these days apparently 20:31:13 We stil need to figure out *at least* one more article to make it to next meeting 20:31:49 we have some [3-5] in the starter pitches 20:32:19 [3-5] cool terminal multiplexers, [3-5] cool text-based email apps, [3-5] cool terminal pagers 20:32:57 * cverna can't really commit to write an article for next week 20:33:12 We're already publishing a [N]-cool article this week, I presume? 20:33:14 cverna: you got us one this week, that was a great save 20:33:29 sub_pop: yeah, hopefully this tiling WM article 20:34:15 yes 2 [N] cool articles in the same week might be too much 20:34:42 we could have a small "news" article 20:35:01 anything new happened recently ? :) 20:35:15 haha let's make some news! 20:35:29 :) 20:35:40 Uh, swift-lang landed in Fedora recently. Is that news? 20:35:47 ryanlerch: do we have an article somewhere on how people can ride Beta into Final/stable? 20:36:00 sub_pop: I would say yes 20:36:00 oh that's a good thought. 20:36:01 as well as make the choice to stay on rawhide? 20:36:19 i have a one in my head to cover gnome-recepies 20:36:25 sub_pop: Oh, that's not bad! 20:36:27 we havent talked about that ever 20:36:30 A generic dnf system-upgrade article might be neat. 20:37:03 Is Swift relevant outside Apple's platform though? 20:37:21 I mean, I guess that doesn't matter for an article covering it. 20:37:36 sub_pop: that would make a neat newsy article! 20:38:13 Ok, I can *probably* throw together a "Start Developing with Swift" article. 20:38:47 sub_pop: or even just a quick one to say it is there, and then follow up later with the how-to? 20:39:00 I guess it makes as much sense as talking about Mono back in the day 20:39:08 this is def a candidate for a small newsy post 20:39:10 i.e. seems OK to me. It's fully FOSS and no reason not to 20:39:16 Yea, probably a brief intro, a little quickstart and a hello-world 20:40:28 +1 from me 20:40:32 +1 tpp 20:40:33 +1 20:40:37 too :) 20:40:44 #agreed swift-lang article pitch from sub_pop sounds good 20:40:59 #action sub_pop draft swift-lang article 20:41:17 Do you have a delivery date in mind, sub_pop ? 20:41:55 ryanlerch: +1 gnome-recipes! 20:42:15 +1 on gnome-recipes 20:42:17 Hm, I can probably make the Monday slot 20:42:43 * cverna expect some nice Australian recipes in the article tho 20:43:20 roasted jumbuck sangas? 20:43:43 sub_pop: that wouldn't be bad, or we could do Wed 20:43:54 but if you shoot for having it to us Mon, we'd publish Wed 20:44:03 Yea, ok 20:44:14 #agreed gnome-recipes article from ryanlerch sounds deliciolus 20:44:17 oh darn it 20:44:25 #undo 20:44:25 Removing item from minutes: AGREED by stickster at 20:44:14 : gnome-recipes article from ryanlerch sounds deliciolus 20:44:29 #agreed gnome-recipes article from ryanlerch sounds delicious 20:46:00 :) 20:47:22 #proposed #agreed PUBLISHING SCHEDULE: Fri 2018-09-28 or sooner, 5 tiling WMs (ready; image: ryanlerch) -- Mon 2018-10-01, waifu2x (asamalik) -- Wed 2018-10-03, swift-lang (sub_pop, image: TBD) 20:47:47 +1 20:47:48 +1 20:47:50 +1 20:47:55 +1 20:48:10 can i publich the tiling one at 0800 thursday, once the image is done? 20:48:18 +1 20:48:25 ryanlerch: sure! 20:48:26 ie today for me, tomorrow for y'all 20:48:34 #proposed #agreed PUBLISHING SCHEDULE: Thu 2018-09-27, 5 tiling WMs (ready; image: ryanlerch) -- Mon 2018-10-01, waifu2x (asamalik) -- Wed 2018-10-03, swift-lang (sub_pop, image: TBD) 20:48:53 woo! 12 minutes early! 20:48:54 * stickster reset the +1 clock, sorry 20:49:05 I assume folks are still good with it ;-) 20:49:17 yes 20:49:29 #proposed #agreed PUBLISHING SCHEDULE: Thu 2018-09-27, 5 tiling WMs (ready; image: ryanlerch) -- Mon 2018-10-01, waifu2x (asamalik) -- Wed 2018-10-03, swift-lang (sub_pop, image: TBD) 20:49:32 yessies 20:49:33 oops 20:49:35 #agreed PUBLISHING SCHEDULE: Thu 2018-09-27, 5 tiling WMs (ready; image: ryanlerch) -- Mon 2018-10-01, waifu2x (asamalik) -- Wed 2018-10-03, swift-lang (sub_pop, image: TBD) 20:49:40 THERE WE GO 20:49:42 * stickster is lame 20:49:47 hahaha :D 20:49:53 #topic All other business 20:50:02 * stickster holds door for 60 sec 20:50:20 I just wanted to bring attention to https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/OFTI5PECETUGWWGNYB7ZMPDH567SL74K/ 20:51:09 so we try to have a nice release day for f29 :) 20:52:05 Yeah, I agree with what x3mboy and mattdm said. It's not cool that teams don't help with TPs -- I kind of lambasted the Workstation WG for this the other day 20:52:25 TBH, its not a big deal for beta IMHO 20:52:25 maybe didn't make any friends there... but this content should be easy to provide 20:52:39 I think we brought this up post-F28 release too 20:52:42 and for GA, people are usually all over it 20:52:50 more worried about GA. I feel like we should undersell features but ask for people to test in general 20:53:02 sorry, I mean, undersell *at Beta* 20:53:02 yeah stickster +1 20:53:14 lol, was just typing the same thing 20:53:15 at GA, full-on feature sales! ALL FEATURES MUST GO 20:53:31 i think the beta announce should be "beta is here", it contains new stuff 20:53:41 * stickster already took note to raise again if needed for Workstation 20:53:57 I also think having the post ready by day-before is OK. 20:54:25 It might be good to prepare the GA article at Beta then 20:54:27 and I had no problem helping this time, just would like to see it do better 20:54:37 cverna: yeah, anytime now would be fine. 20:54:39 how long is it usually between a go/nogo meeting fro GA, til release? 20:55:17 ryanlerch: as little as Thu before the Tue release, I think 20:55:19 ryanlerch: go/no-go is on Thursday. Release is the following Tue 20:55:22 go/nogo is on thursday and release on tuesday 20:55:28 A release annoucement article can be started *now*, can't it? And build upon it as the talking points expand? 20:55:29 :) 20:55:34 indeed sub_pop 20:55:41 That's how we do GNOME release-notes. 20:55:49 except -- anyone doing it has to be an author on the magazine 20:56:02 +1 to prepare F29 release announcement now 20:56:03 I was working on those 4 to 6 weeks before release, I think. 20:56:04 which is not a big deal, happy to give that access out like candy 20:56:08 sub_pop: yep. with beta that's a little tough because some features fall out fairly last minute. but the GA announcement can start now 20:56:16 but the wiki has no such requirement which I think is why it's used 20:56:26 bcotton++ 20:56:26 stickster: Karma for bcotton changed to 13 (for the current release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 20:56:33 bcotton: Sure, beta has the "game footage not final" disclaimer :) 20:57:10 In any case, we could just start the article now. 20:57:11 sub_pop: yep, and as long as people remember to yank it before we go live, it's not a problem at all. but people sometimes forget 20:57:39 #action stickster make a draft placeholder for F29 GA article so it comes up in every meeting between now and GA :-) 20:57:51 +1 20:57:52 stickster++ 20:57:59 stickster++ 20:57:59 asamalik: Karma for pfrields changed to 13 (for the current release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 20:57:59 stickster++ 20:58:07 cookies 20:58:09 i think the #fedora-mktg folks will probably be pushing it pretty heavily, too 20:58:12 stickster++ 20:58:45 can we release f29, so we can get a new batch of cookies :) 20:59:29 OK, that's done 20:59:36 i think cookies should update each week 20:59:41 * stickster has to run -- closing up shop now :-) 20:59:48 bye! 20:59:53 https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=22719&preview=true&preview_id=22719 20:59:55 thanks again for chairing, stickster 21:00:06 Thanks for coming everyone! Minutes will hit the list shortly. 21:00:08 #endmeeting