20:00:18 #startmeeting Magazine editorial board 20:00:18 Meeting started Wed Mar 13 20:00:18 2019 UTC. 20:00:18 This meeting is logged and archived in a public location. 20:00:18 The chair is stickster. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 20:00:18 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 20:00:18 The meeting name has been set to 'magazine_editorial_board' 20:00:20 #meetingname magazine 20:00:20 The meeting name has been set to 'magazine' 20:00:23 #topic Roll call 20:00:25 .hello pfrields 20:00:26 stickster: pfrields 'Paul W. Frields' 20:01:12 Hello 20:01:14 .hello2 20:01:15 asamalik: asamalik 'Adam Samalik' 20:01:26 .hello2 20:01:27 jakfrost: jakfrost 'Steven Snow' 20:01:31 #chair jakfrost asamalik ryanlerch cverna 20:01:31 Current chairs: asamalik cverna jakfrost ryanlerch stickster 20:02:03 o/ hi y'all 20:02:07 .hello ryanlerch 20:02:08 ryanlerch: ryanlerch 'Ryan Lerch' 20:02:20 ryanlerch: thanks for making it, it's super gonzo early your time 20:02:36 stickster: coffee is friend 20:03:24 indeed! 20:03:47 hello 20:03:50 * stickster has been drinking it black daily since doing this intermittent fasting thing. I discovered I hate black coffee but yet I persist 20:04:04 You know what I like? Dessert coffee 20:04:52 * cverna likes any kind of dessert :) 20:04:58 I drink coffee with cream 20:05:02 pie 20:05:04 that's the best 20:05:50 long blacks with milk when at home for me 20:06:19 6oz doubleshot flat white when out at the coiffee shop :) 20:06:28 :-) 20:06:29 I mostly drink tea, and only espresso when it comes to coffee 20:06:51 I like tea too but esp with milk & honey 20:06:57 flat white indeed! 20:07:07 can't help it, I have a sweet tooth. I blame my grandma 20:07:34 #topic Last week's stats 20:07:48 #info Week of March 4: 63.4K pageviews, slightly down from previous week but not bad 20:08:04 It'd be cool if we were closer to 80K/week 20:08:48 * stickster makes a note to see what we did the week of 2019-Jan-28 that was an outlier, or 2018-Nov-26 20:10:17 #topic Drafts to review 20:11:13 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post 20:11:35 I see something new from Laura, cool 20:12:00 #info --- Setting kernel command line arguments --- 20:12:02 * asamalik made a note as well about looking at good weeks so we can possibly reproduce them :) 20:12:03 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=25616&preview=true 20:12:18 asamalik: I used my todoist, are you proud of me? 😉 20:12:44 * asamalik is proud of stickster 20:12:45 :D 20:12:49 This article isn't ready to review yet, but clearly this will be a good one. I love labbott's clear writing style 20:13:30 yes! 20:13:31 better than my repetitive one ^ 🤣 20:13:36 I'm really looking forward to it 20:14:04 labbott++ 20:14:04 cverna: Karma for labbott changed to 5 (for the current release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 20:14:06 Interesting and important topic 20:14:10 labbott++ 20:14:10 stickster: Karma for labbott changed to 6 (for the current release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 20:14:18 labbott++ 20:14:18 asamalik: Karma for labbott changed to 7 (for the current release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 20:14:19 COOKIES 20:14:27 labbott++ 20:14:27 ryanlerch: Karma for labbott changed to 8 (for the current release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 20:14:30 labbott++ 20:14:30 jakfrost: Karma for labbott changed to 9 (for the current release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 20:14:33 #info labbott still working on kernel command line args article, we'll check back next week 20:14:34 cookies and coffee!!! 20:14:36 to dump into the coffee :) 20:14:40 asamalik: :D 20:14:41 #info --- C# part 2 --- 20:14:43 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=25106&preview=true 20:15:15 #info stickster emailed Francisco and he was going to update the article to include a hangman game or another easy example to provide more valuable content 20:15:37 I think last time we wanted to make this more actionable? 20:15:52 indeed 20:16:10 something the user could follow and run that was useful as a demo 20:16:47 I thought the author responded favourably to the ideas expressed by the editors. 20:17:58 ack 20:18:13 ack, ack phfitt 20:18:37 so probably just needs more time 20:18:51 nothing left to do here but wait, unfortunately 20:19:00 #info we'll need to check back on this draft too 20:19:24 That's the end of drafts, unfortunately. :-( 20:19:34 #topic Pitches to approve 20:19:36 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=pitch&post_type=post 20:19:57 is the badges post from cverna new or did we already +1 that last week? I feel like we did. 20:20:23 Ditto 20:20:42 i think we +1'ed it already 20:20:46 #info Nothing new in pitches 😢 20:20:52 :( 20:21:12 OK, this means we need to get not only our thinking caps, but our writing gloves, and get to work for this week 20:21:12 labbott just started ediing the kernel post again 20:21:42 I have been working on the Borg Backup on Silverblue, and today did my first backup from my heavily modified script 20:22:06 I need to get s bit more info for a basic article about it on Silverblue 20:22:08 are there any features landing in f30 that are worth an quick post about? 20:22:11 a bit 20:22:14 jakfrost: That's cool! You talked about that topic last week IIRC. 20:22:24 Certainly did 20:22:44 I'm shooting for early next week a draft 20:23:44 It's a pretty cool scriptable software for backing up with encryption and de-dup'ng. 20:24:00 jakfrost++ keep going! 20:24:08 the sooner the better :-D 20:24:20 In the meantime... I'm looking at our Starter Pitches queue as well. 20:24:27 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=starter-pitches&post_type=post 20:24:47 These are all cool article ideas, *pre-approved*, that someone can pick up and write without much labor 20:25:25 A few of them are esoteric but we kept them because they didn't seem complex. 20:27:09 ryanlerch: what about something(s) from https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/30/ChangeSet ? 20:27:21 I see a few things that might make user visible speed differences 20:27:30 stickster: gnome 3.32 was / is released today 20:27:37 i can do a post about that 20:27:56 ryanlerch:🤯 20:28:33 ryanlerch: Yes! Worth noting that the pre-release is already in pre-F30 branch, and final will have it as well 20:28:56 doenst look like it is released yet 20:29:03 what about the Pantheon desktop change? 20:29:23 i can do a post today, and post on friday 20:29:52 if I remember correctly, for example the article about i3 was one of the top we had in terms of views... so maybe desktops are cool to write about? 20:30:23 Certainly can stir up interest. 20:30:46 People tend to get particular about their DE 20:30:50 asamalik: never heard of pantheon 20:30:56 me neither :D 20:31:02 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/PantheonDesktop 20:31:18 I just googled some screenshots and it looks really nice 20:31:35 * asamalik would be happy to play with it and write about it 20:31:43 asamalik: +1 20:32:06 Alternate desktops are interesting to lots of readers 20:32:16 ryanlerch: +1 on your plan as well 20:32:27 #action ryanlerch write post on GNOME 3.32 release to pump it up as well as F30 20:32:38 Did you notice the GnuPG2 is replacing GnuPG1? 20:32:45 but do we wanna do it even though it's not out yet? 20:32:45 #action asamalik write post on Pantheon desktop option in Fedora 20:33:13 asamalik: let's see if it's actually available and works 20:33:40 yeah 20:33:46 Hmm, I see some parts still missing, not just a few packages but some of the plumbing backend like dnf/PackageKit 20:34:08 it looks like it's in f29 also... 20:35:40 * asamalik is booting up a VM 20:35:44 asamalik: Maybe you should just run it in a VM, and report on it to the extent it does work (and mention what doesn't) 20:35:46 *jinx 20:35:53 lol 20:37:31 haha 20:39:34 lolz 20:41:23 .hello 20:41:23 ryanlerch: (hello ) -- Alias for "hellomynameis $1". 20:41:38 #action stickster pick a topic on the starter pitches and go to town 20:41:48 I think I may do the terminal multiplexers since no one's done it yet. 20:42:03 stickster++ 20:42:19 I know screen and tmux, I think there's also terminator/tmuxinator and a couple others. 20:42:38 Oh, byobu 20:42:46 also tilix or something like that 20:43:15 I think tilix is a window manager though? Maybe I'm remembering wrong, though 20:43:30 https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/ 20:43:37 maybe no different than terminator actually 20:43:49 yeah kind of like terminator 20:44:35 I think Terminator is based on tmux 20:44:50 or a fork at some point 20:45:27 I use Terminator, it is a pretty good tabbed terminal multiplexer 20:46:08 ryanlerch: Can I hand you the gavel? I'm trying to fix something for labbott 20:46:20 feel free to go to publishing schedule if needed 20:46:22 Tmux, and Terminator go well with zsh 20:46:29 #info stickster is trying to fix the public post preview issue 20:50:03 fixed! 20:50:15 I take it ryanlerch either ran out of coffee or is writing his post 20:50:27 I'll move ahead to publishing schedule so as not to keep everyone here 20:50:31 #topic Publishing schedule 20:50:51 Oh also on the community blog they have the SEO and Writing plugin working 20:51:01 back now! sorry had some connection issues 20:51:02 cverna: I'll take a look at those as well! 20:51:06 not sure how they did it but it nice 20:51:09 cool :) 20:51:38 #proposed #agreed Fri 2019-Mar-15: GNOME 3.32 (ryanlerch) -- Mon 2019-Mar-18: Pantheon (asamalik) -- Wed 2019-Mar-20: Term-muxers (stickster) -- Fri 2019-Mar-22: TBD 20:51:57 termuxers FTW 20:52:00 +1 from mer 20:52:02 me 20:52:04 heh 20:52:43 cverna: I think they are doing what I did. Logged in via SSH and manually unzipped new plugin versions. It's a bit clumsy compared to how I do it on my own self-hosted WP. I just log in there and manage via the interface. 20:52:53 I'm wondering it it's not too early for the Pantheon article... it works somehow but it doesn't feel done... it doesn't even have any settings, I can't change the background... I feel like writing about it now will just prevent us from writing about it when it's ready... :( 20:52:59 It might be a permissions thing is wrong in our ansible playbook. 20:53:15 sorry for taking too long, I had to update that VM and was waiting for scriplets and things 20:53:57 I could write about DWM window manager — a super simple tiling VM 20:54:07 stickster: oh ok, yes I am not a wordpress expert so not sure why we can just use the interface 20:54:44 we mentioned DWM in the "5 cool tiling VMs" article, but just briefly 20:54:51 *WMs 20:55:11 asamalik: i'm on board with that! 20:55:18 +1 20:55:40 asamalik: +1, also a great idea. Let's change the schedule accordingly ;-) 20:55:51 #proposed #agreed Fri 2019-Mar-15: GNOME 3.32 (ryanlerch) -- Mon 2019-Mar-18: DWM (asamalik) -- Wed 2019-Mar-20: Term-muxers (stickster) -- Fri 2019-Mar-22: TBD 20:56:00 let's do this! :D 20:56:10 +1 20:56:49 I'll try to have the borg thingy assimilated by this weekend 20:56:52 +1 20:57:03 +1 20:57:11 +1 20:57:13 #agreed Fri 2019-Mar-15: GNOME 3.32 (ryanlerch) -- Mon 2019-Mar-18: DWM (asamalik) -- Wed 2019-Mar-20: Term-muxers (stickster) -- Fri 2019-Mar-22: TBD 20:57:52 and people say magic doesn't exist 20:58:54 lol 20:59:02 #topic All other business / open floor 20:59:07 Leaving open for 1 minute :-) 20:59:28 #info stickster looking at whether we can "fix" our Wordpress, or at least upgrade some plugins 21:02:02 OK, thanks for coming everyone! 21:02:04 #endmeeting