Here are the dates http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/Schedule The beta freeze releases a day after beta release on 14th April.
- Hiemanshu Sharma. On 2 April 2010 11:16, Mel Chua <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's the longer email with context on the launch of the Zikula-based > Fedora Insight project, what's happening with it, and how you can help. > I'm trying to clean this up enough to send to the Zikula folks at > http://groups.google.com/group/zikula-discussions?pli=1, but need help > with the following details: > > * When are the relevant Infrastructure freeze dates we're trying to hit? > (I can't find these quickly on the wiki.) > * Have I described the tasks and calls-to-action for the Zikula > community with actual accuracy? I'm guessing a bit from the limited > recent context I have on what type of help we specifically need. > > Thanks, folks. > > --Mel > > ---- > > Full minutes are at > > http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-mktg/2010-04-01/fedora_insight.2010-04-01-18.00.html > , > and full logs are at > > http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-mktg/2010-04-01/fedora_insight.2010-04-01-18.00.log.html > . > > == What is Fedora Insight? == > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Insight > > "Fedora Insight (FI) is a website that serves as a place to publish and > share news, articles related to Fedora and Fedora marketing materials in > various formats. It makes it easy for users, developers, and journalists > - people who aren't yet a part of the Fedora contributor community - to > keep up with the goings on of the community without following a dozen > different blogs and mailing lists." > > == How does Zikula fit in? == > > FI is entirely based on Zikula and Zikula modules, with a custom theme > and a custom authentication module that allows Fedora contributors to > use their Fedora Account System (FAS) username and password to log in. > > == What milestones are we targeting? == > > The Fedora Linux distribution has over 22 million users and several tens > of thousands of contributors, and we are aiming to launch this site in > conjunction with marketing for our 13th release at the start of May, > meaning we'll have to hit Infrastructure freeze dates for staging > (pre-production) and production much earlier than this. (TODO: Need > freeze dates.) > > == Where is this conversation happening? == > > Within Fedora, we communicate about FI-the-project (how we are doing in > terms of getting it up and running, etc.) on the Logistics mailing list > (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/logistics) which is > used for cross-team communication in Fedora. We also have weekly > meetings on IRC, on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-mktg on Thursdays at 2pm > US Eastern time (18:00 GMT). > > == What next-actions do we need help with? == > > * https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2006 <-- We need > to create forms for a pagemaster-based content workflow. This is not a > huge technical challenge, but if anyone from Zikula has best-practices > for pagemaser-based content workflow they'd like to share, this is the > place to do it. Stories? Help? Ideas? Our current workflow is described > in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight_Workflow. > > * https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2057 <-- We're > having some trouble getting pagemaster-based article weighting to work. > Any help here would be awesome. > > * https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2010 <-- More > pagemaster. We're trying to find a better way of wrangling pubtypes. We > think we have a workaround, but aren't sure if it (1) would actually > work, or (2) is really a good idea. Thoughts? > > * The database currently used in the testing instance needs to be > migrated to staging at some point. Not a huge deal; someone with access > just has to do it when we're ready. > > * https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/66 <-- The theme needs to > be completed and packaged; finding some old postnuke docs helped, but > it's still been a long and slow journey through finding the appropriate > syntax for pulling out certain pieces of information. More resources for > this would be helpful - once the theme is finished we can push it to > staging (https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2007). > Are there any Zikula theme gurus in the house that might be able to hang > out during a sprint and lend a hand with any questions that come up? > (We're not sure what they'd be yet.) > > * https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2009 <-- We need > to set up RSS feeds for the different categories/types-of-content coming > out, and to work these feeds into the theming of the site. Once it's > complete, the RSS functionality needs to be tested. Folks with > experience with RSS feeds in Zikula who can come in and take a look and > tell us if we're Doing It Right would be extremely helpful. > > * https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/109 <-- FASauth is a > custom module written for Fedora by Simon Birtwistle that allows Fedora > contributors to use their Fedora Account System (FAS) username and > password to log in. We think it works; it needs testing. We also need to > locate and separate all the pieces of changeable configuration in > FASauth so that the module is a clean upstream (and can potentially be > reused by other people), and so that we can back up our custom > configuration for this specific site. > > That's it for now - we'll try to keep these weekly updates coming to the > lists after the weekly meetings. Questions, comments, thoughts? Please ask! > > --Mel > -- > marketing mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing >
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