Fedora 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.

This wiki page is for people interested in working on and contributing to Fedora Insight itself; the site is a project that requires collaboration between many teams (FWN, Marketing, Websites, Design, Infrastructure, etc.), so this is our central landing spot.

Project status

Communications

The canonical collaboration points for Fedora Insight are this wiki page and the mailing list. A good motto to keep in mind:"If it wasn't announced to the logistics mailing list, it didn't happen."

For the most up-to-date status of the project, ask on the logistics mailing list (read the archives to see if your question has been recently answered first) or in the #fedora-mktg (irc.freenode.net) IRC channel.

Production

'There is no live production instance yet.' (We are working on the first release!)

Staging

https://stg.fedoraproject.org/insight/

This instance is set up by the Infrastructure team according to the instructions at How to set up a Zikula sandbox. Login/authentication is hooked to your normal FAS account.

Publictest

http://publictest6.fedoraproject.org/zikula/

This instance is available to experiment with, and is accessible by anyone with access to the sysadmin-test FAS group. Login/authentication is hooked to the test FAS instance.

Do not use your regular Fedora account (FAS) credentials.
Make a test account in the test FAS instance.

How to use:

1. Make a test account on the public-test instance of FAS at https://publictest3.fedoraproject.org/accounts .
2. Log in to https://publictest6.fedoraproject.org/zikula/ using your FAS test account.
3. Play!

Goals

Our next milestone is to migrate the Fedora Weekly News workflow and publication to Fedora Insight before Alpha Public Availability (March 2, 2010).

The milestone after that is to get all pre-beta F13 Marketing deliverables published on Fedora Insight before Beta Release Public Availability (April 6, 2010).

Milestones beyond this are discussed on the talk page.

How to help

1. Look at the list of #Teams involved and pick the one(s) you're most closely matching your interests and skillset.
2. Follow the instructions in the section for your team(s) on finding open tasks to work on and setting up your environment for contributing to Fedora Insight.
3. Join the logistics mailing list and introduce yourself. Let us know:
   1. Your name
   2. The kind of skills/experiences/interests you have (even if you're active within another Fedora team, there may be people from other teams within Fedora who haven't had the chance to meet you yet, so let them know who you are and that you're around!)
   3. The first task or ticket you'll be working on, if you know what you'll be helping with already - or a request for help finding a first task, if you'd like some guidance on where to start.
4. (optional) Check out any other #Communications channels that you might be interested in.

Teams involved

FWN

• https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/32 (Closed)
• https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1874 (2009-12-10)
• https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1875 (2009-12-10)
• https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1876 (2009-12-10)
• https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1877 (2009-12-10)
• https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1878 (2009-12-10)

Zikula

Fedora Insight is based on zikula, an open source php-based content management system (CMS). We are working with the upstream zikula community to make sure we deploy their software "The Right Way," and that the work we do benefits upstream as much as possible.

The zikula community seems to do most of their support on the zikula community forums - we need help learning how to be good ambassadors to upstream!

Design

List of FI tickets in Design trac

The repo is located at git://git.fedorproject.org/git/fedora-insight-theme.git.

You can checkout the theme anonymously using

git clone git://git.fedoraproject.org/git/fedora-insight-theme.git

People who are a part of the (FAS) group gitfedora-insight-theme can check out using

git clone ssh://git.fedoraproject.org/git/fedora-insight-theme.git

To use the theme on your local copy of zikula just copy over the fedora folder inside the git repo and paste in the /path/to/zikula/theme folder and change the settings in the Admin Panel.

If you make any change in the theme directly on the server (pt6) make sure that you copy over the changes you made to the theme and to keep the git repo updated always.

Infrastructure

The master ticket is at Infrastructure Trac #1615, but if you're looking to help out, it's best to see our the Trac query.

Marketing

multiple tickets in marketing Trac.

Packaging

• php-gettext - needs review
• Zikula#Module_status for various zikula module packages

History

For a history of the project and some of the rationale behind it, see Fedora Insight history.