FWN/WorkFlow

= Fedora Weekly News: Work Flow =

Work flow for Fedora Weekly News Writers and Editors.

Due Dates
Everybody works on News Beats all week long with due date on Wednesday 9:00 PM Eastern Time. Upon completion of the beat the beat author changes the status in the Beat Sections Table from "incomplete" to "COMPLETE". This provides an indication to the editorial team that there will be no further updates to the content unless the author notifies the editorial team.

Style and Formatting
You can help the editorial process quite a bit by remembering a few stylistic points in your writing:


 * FWN attempts to adhere as closely as possible to the StyleGuide. Writers should familiarize themselves with it and try to keep in mind some of these elements in your writing, such as active voice, etc.


 * It is preferred that citations and references in your work use the markup provided by MediaWiki's cite.php module. Wrap any URI, which you wish to cite, inline with an opening and closing ref tag and include a reference placeholder tag at the bottom of each item in your beat. For example see the markup and its resultant rendering below:

{|border="1" from use of cite.php reference markup''' !Markup
 * +'''Sample showing markup and displayed output
 * align="left"|

Title of Some Item in Beat
Here is some text and it includes a reference to the main page of the Fedora Project. It also contains another reference to Fedora Weekly News itself. the easiest way is to do a regex substitution for the numeric reference: s/Ctrl-v u 2191//g.


 * Anything marked-up as a package will need to have the package-name tags removed


 * Check for HTML character entity markup

Copy issue to appropriate news outlets
A CC: of the mailshot can be sent to the following addresses: distro@distrowatch.com news@phoronix.com editor@lxer.com

Add Link to Top of Archive Listing
Add a link to the previous week's issue at the top of FWN/Archive