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== Introduction ==
{{admon/caution|This project is no longer active|This project is no longer active. We're now working on [http://fedoramagazine.org Fedora Magazine] instead.}}


Fedora Insight is a website that serves as a place to publish and share news, articles related to Fedora and [[Marketing|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.
[https://insight.fedoraproject.org Fedora Insight] is a [http://drupal.org Drupal-based] website that serves as a place to publish and share news, articles related to Fedora and [[Marketing|Fedora marketing materials]] in various formats. Insight makes it easy for users, developers, and journalists -- people who aren't yet a part of the Fedora contributor community -- to keep up with recent highlights without following a dozen different blogs and mailing lists.


For a history of the project and some of the rationale behind it, see [[Fedora Insight history]].
This wiki page is for people interested in working on and contributing to [https://insight.fedoraproject.org Fedora Insight] itself.


=== What's happening ===
{{admon/tip | 1=Need to file a request or bug? | 2=Visit the Infrastructure issue tracker to [https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/newtplticket?component=FedoraInsight&version=Test&cc=logistics@lists.fedoraproject.org file a new issue]. You'll need to log in with your Fedora account to file the issue.}}


The best way to find out is to look at the open FI-related tasks.
== Project details ==
{|width=100%
! width=20% | IRC Channel
| {{fpchat|#fedora-mktg}}
|-
! Mailing List
| {{fplist|logistics}}
|-
! Meetings
| Weekly at {{fpchat|#fedora-meeting}}, Tuesday at 4:00pm US Eastern time
|-
! Current issues
|
* [https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/query?status=new&status=assigned&component=FedoraInsight fedora-infrastructure Trac] - site development or production issues
* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=662103&hide_resolved=1 "InsightReviews" Bugzilla bug] - package review issues
|-
! Project planning
| [[Insight project plan]] --- [[Insight notes from FUDCon Blacksburg 2012-01-15]]
|-
! Development server
| https://insight02.dev.fedoraproject.org <br/>Uses [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts FAS] for authentication. Access via SSH only for trusted sysadmin team members.
|-
! Staging server
| https://insight.stg.fedoraproject.org
|-
! Production server
| https://insight.fedoraproject.org <br/>
|-
! Related pages
|
* [[Insight customizations to Drupal]] -- Changes to core, additional modules and settings
* [[Insight content configuration]] -- Additional customization work such as filters
|-
! TRAC Tickets
| https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&component=FedoraInsight&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority
|}


Also, on Sunday December 6 2009 and Monday December 7 2009 we will be working on FI at a [[Zikula hackfest]] - remote participation is welcomed! (Actually, please join in!)
{{Anchor|Agenda}}


==== Design ====
== Meeting agenda ==


[https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&keywords=%7Einsight&order=priority List of FI tickets in Design trac]
* Review previous action items -- [http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-01-03/insight.2012-01-03-21.00.html Previous meeting]
* authfas update
* Office hours
* Hackfest info?


==== Infrastructure ====
== How to help ==


https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1615
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==== Marketing ====
=== Decide what you want to do ===


[https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&component=Fedora+Insight&order=priority multiple tickets in marketing Trac].
{|
| '''I want to work on the theme and appearance of Insight.'''
| [[Design/Join | Join]] the [[Design]] team, and look at our page on [[How to work on the Insight theme]].
|-
| '''I want to help develop and maintain the Insight system.'''
| Introduce yourself to the team (see below), and look at our page on [[How to develop for Insight]].
|-
| '''I want to represent Fedora in the Drupal community.'''
| [[Ambassadors/Join | Join]] the [[Ambassadors]] team -- being a Fedora representative is more than just being a fan. We would love to have you on our team once you are versed in how the project works.
|}


==== FWN ====
=== Become part of our team ===


https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/32 (Closed)
# Join the {{fplist|logistics}} mailing list and introduce yourself. Let us know:
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1874
#* Your name
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1875
#* Your skills/experiences/interests -- Even if you're active within another Fedora team, there may be other Fedora folks who haven't had the chance to meet you yet, so let them know who you are and that you're around!
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1876
#* The first task or ticket you plan to work on (see "Current issues" above) -- if you want to work on something else, tell us what it is
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1877
# (optional) Check out any other [[#Communications]] channels that you might be interested in.
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1878


==== Packaging ====
=== Development ===


* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544821 php-gettext] - needs review
If you know something about Drupal or are a fast learner, we welcome you! We are working on designing the next group of features for Insight.  Here are the use cases we've outlined thus far:


=== Check it out! ===
* [[Insight use cases for calendar]]
* [[Insight use cases for status and microblogging]]
* [[Insight use cases for events]]


{{admon/important|Do not use your regular Fedora account (FAS) credentials.|Make a test account in the test FAS instance.}}
We're also starting to look forward to Drupal 7, and have started documenting critical path requirements for a future migration to Drupal 7 from Dupal 6:


# Make a test account on the public-test instance of FAS at https://publictest3.fedoraproject.org/accounts .
* [[Insight Drupal 7 Dependencies]]
# Log in to https://publictest6.fedoraproject.org/zikula/ using your FAS test account.
# Play!


=== Marketing ===


The [[Marketing]] team will be publishing its [[Marketing#Release deliverables|release deliverables]] on Fedora Insight, and will be the second users of the platform after [[#FWN]].


==Goals==
We're currently figuring out additional content (other than our release deliverables) that would go into the [[#Content_workflow]]. Our current thinking is several ideas that have been filed as [https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&component=Fedora+Insight&order=priority multiple tickets in the Marketing trac instance].


=== F12 Goals ===
If you want to help with the Marketing side of things, do the following:
# Follow the instructions in the [[#How to help]] section of this page.
# [[Joining the Fedora marketing project|Join the Marketing team]], if you aren't already a member.
# Email the [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing marketing list] and let the Marketing team know you're interested in helping with Fedora Insight.


* '''Centralized content-finding:''' Have a central place to publish Fedora Marketing content, This draws from "upstream" sources such as Planet Fedora, FWN, existing deliverables like feature profiles and release announcements, and content that we currently don't consistently create, like podcasts and multimedia.
=== Packaging ===
* '''Support the content schedule:''' Provide a platform that makes it easier to see what needs to be produced for a given Fedora release cycle, the timeline for each, and the progress towards each item.
* '''User-centered web design:''' Serve as an attractive, informative, Journal-format, user-friendly face for informing people interested in Fedora, but not yet contributing to it.
* '''Standardized feeds:''' Feeds available for each content tag and media type (audio/video/text).
* '''Enable the [[Fedora news distribution network (NDN)]] process:''' Host the materials the NDN will send out.


=== Beyond F12 Goals ===
We could always use packaging help for Drupal and related modules.  If you see an unassigned (''NEW'') bug in [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=662103&hide_resolved=1 this tracking list], that means there is a package review needed so we can make more progress.  The [[Package Review Process]] page will show you how to do a review.  It takes some time to do a good package review, but in the process you can learn some technical skills and about how this process ensures a good experience for Fedora users installing software.


* Translation workflow and setup
=== Content workflow ===
* Develop strategies for syndicating media on social networks/news sites


== Content ==
This is a content workflow envisioned for Fedora Insight.


=== Content categories ===
<pre>
+-------------------------+    +-----+ +-------+ +-------------+ +-----------+
|Things that automatically|    |Press| |The Web| |Fedora Planet| |Original FI|
|get sent to the moderator|    +-----+ +-------+ +-------------+ |content    |
|queue for annotation    |        |      |          |        +-----------+
+-------------------------+        |      |          |              |
| * Board meeting minutes |        +-------+-----+-----+---------------+
| * FESCo meeting minutes |                            |
| * FAmSCo meeting minutes|                            |
| * etc.                  |                            |
+-------------------------+              +----------------------------+
            |                            | Discovered by interested  |
            |                    +----->| person, or submitted by    | 
            |                    |      | original author into...    | 
            |          resent to  |      +----------------------------+ 
            |          submitter  |                    |                           
            |          with rationale                  |                           
            |                    |          +------------------+                       
            +---------------------+--------->| Moderator  Queue |       
                                  |          +------------------+       
                                  |          | Selects content  |       
                                  <NO>--------| and annotates    |         
                                              | selected content |
+-------------------------+                  +------------------+
|Things that automatically|                          |
|get published (no mod)  |----+                    <YES>     
+-------------------------+    |                      |           
| * Fedora Weekly News    |    |      +----------------------------+
| * Fedora-announce-list  |    +------>| Published in Fedora Insight|
| * etc.                  |            +----------------------------+
+-------------------------+                          |         
                                                      |
                                                  (READERS!)
</pre>


''this is a draft, for discussion - please edit!''
== History ==
 
* interviews with community members
* feature focus/update (tour)
* howto (for experienced users)
* upcoming event announcement/reminder
* past event report
* neutral reporting on debates
* rawhide report
* meeting coverage - upcoming-meetings calendar, minutes
* interviews with companies/people which use Fedora (aka. success stories)
 
=== Content examples ===
 
''these are drafts, for discussion - they were taken mostly from Planet headlines on the day we looked (at the beginning of June). Please add/remove/edit/comment - what do you think should be here?'' [[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]] 12:38, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
 
'''Yes'''
 
* What's new in Fedora 11 from SELinux
* Western Digital MyBook as a Backup System (Fedora-specific existing-user tutorial)
* "you should vote; here are upcoming elections" posts
* "people voted, here are election results" posts
* Fedora 11 Release Party Wau Report
* npov coverage of things like "there is a debate on dropping cd media, here are links to several views expressed"
* Read All About the Fedora 11 Retrospective (past event coverage)
 
'''No'''
 
* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SPACEWALK! (not Fedora-specific)
* lolcats
* "I voted!" posts
* "Initial KMS support for radeons merged to Linus tree" (the blogpost-as-commit-message)
* SoaS for the XO-1 uses Fedora
* State of the Poulsbo Address
* Chinese translation of [a book I wrote] is being worked on
* So you’re looking for a hosting provider?
* Social Desktop contest
* Announcing kernelpodcast.org
* The downfall of modern civilization... (on the 'drop cd media?' debate - we're not looking for editorials, but npov coverage)
* Simplez! Simple Pairing support now in gnome-bluetooth. (more of a blog-as-commit-message than a feature report)


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


== Workflow ==


== Platform specs/requirements ==
[[Fedora Insight Workflow]]


=== Marketing Requirements ===
[[Insight development using Features module]]
 
* Allow multiple editors
* Allow multiple contributors
* Separate feeds for different media - podcast, written, video etc
* Easy integration of rich media - see above
* Tags/Categories
* "Push" capabilities. From kanarip: if i have to look it up, as in, actively, it's a fail; it needs to be pushed in my direction somehow; rss feeds will suffice for that purpose
 
=== News Requirements ===
 
(Extrapolated from the [[https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-news-list/2009-July/msg00000.html this fedora-news-list thread]] - please correct me if I've misinterpreted. [[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]] 18:44, 14 July 2009 (UTC))
 
* graphical branded presence
* syndication
* potentially retaining the FWN name? (has name recognition... open question for discussion.)
* keep current FWN sections. "Certainly Ambassadors, Planet, Art/Design, Translation, Development. Dale's virtualization beat is a creation unto itself, covering several different areas."
* easy workflow - currently, FWN is edited as one block of text, which is easier on editors than working on many separate posts.
 
=== Design requirements ===
 
* mizmo: lets you add custom CSS across the whole site design. i think its just going to be one blog (or maybe one per feed - text / audio /video ) so i dont think user level css would come into play.
* mizmo: lets you modify html output
* mizmo: tagging - to support the way we laid the mockup up, you either need multiblogs or better tagging, and tag based feeds. so like we were talking about, having a developer of the month interview, would be good to tag it with 'interview' and 'dotw', and then for each tag to have its own feed. it could be accomplished with separate blogs too, but that would then split related content, like if you had a dotw blog and an interview blog, when you do an interview for dotw it won't be in the interview blog feed
* Ability to easily pull archives, by month and year and list out (see footer of mockup)
** Same for latest posts per category, in footer of mockup
* Rawhide Weather report ability?
* live Identi.ca feed?
* allows for the pulling-in of external feeds/items or the super-easy creation of plugins to add special features - for instance, Mo's idea of the "rawhide weather report" (or Jeff Spaleta's variant of forest fire levels) may be automatically generated from buildbot logs (or something) - how can that get implemented? [[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]] 23:34, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 
=== General Requirements ===
 
* FAS_Auth integration
* Themable (presumably by Design Team)
* Software *and* required plugins packaged - including theme?
** software + plugins packaged, theme isn't necessarily a strict requires but it's kind of nice --[[User:Ianweller|Ian Weller]] 16:13, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
** Why is it not a strict requires? (JonRob - who doesn't know how to do ianweller's funky signature)
** Regardless, the theme was packaged for Docs, IIRC an adapted skin from the existing Fedora websites look --[[User:Quaid|Quaid]] 20:03, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
'' This is a brainstorm list - what would you want a Fedora Insight platform to have and do? Please add to the list below.''
 
== Why Zikula ==
 
* stickster: there's a great deal of crossover between what Fedora Insight proposes, and what the new CMS (Zikula) can/will accomplish. Fedora Insight sets out a lot of Marketing-specific goals, and I think most or all of them can be achieved through an implementation via the CMS.
* ke4qqq (Dave Nalley) summarizes Zikua: After a long period of input, eval, and testing by multiple groups (primarily Docs, but also Infrastructure and others), Zikula has been chosen as a CMS. It has a responsive upstream that's developing new modules for our needs and has even joined fp lists to help us collaborate on getting this up. It wil first be used for docs.fp.o, which currently has no CMS; FPC and F-Legal are also interested in using it - but we haven't mapped out that really well thus far - but it's after docs.fp.o makes the move. polecat (John Poelstra) has stepped up to coordinate teams for a production schedule and some meetings.
* If zikula fits all of our requirements, or can/will be modified to do so, I would be strongly in favor of going with this and working with the existing cross-team effort - it just makes sense to Work Together. I think sitting down with someone who knows Zikula's feature set well, and going through our requirements list (once that is more solidified) with them, would enable us to make a final yes/no decision. [[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]] 14:45, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 
 
 
== Sketches ==
 
Here's a mockup by mizmo of what this might look like. (Click for full size.)
 
[[File:FooBar.png|300px]]


[[Category:Fedora Insight]]
[[Category:Fedora Insight]]
== Workflow ==

Revision as of 15:39, 4 March 2014

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This project is no longer active
This project is no longer active. We're now working on Fedora Magazine instead.

Fedora Insight is a Drupal-based website that serves as a place to publish and share news, articles related to Fedora and Fedora marketing materials in various formats. Insight makes it easy for users, developers, and journalists -- people who aren't yet a part of the Fedora contributor community -- to keep up with recent highlights 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.

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Project details

IRC Channel #fedora-mktg[?]
Mailing List logistics
Meetings Weekly at #fedora-meeting[?], Tuesday at 4:00pm US Eastern time
Current issues
Project planning Insight project plan --- Insight notes from FUDCon Blacksburg 2012-01-15
Development server https://insight02.dev.fedoraproject.org
Uses FAS for authentication. Access via SSH only for trusted sysadmin team members.
Staging server https://insight.stg.fedoraproject.org
Production server https://insight.fedoraproject.org
Related pages
TRAC Tickets https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&component=FedoraInsight&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority

Meeting agenda

  • Review previous action items -- Previous meeting
  • authfas update
  • Office hours
  • Hackfest info?

How to help

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Personal Information
Fedora is a very visible and transparent project. Its mailing lists are archived and mirrored in many places on the internet outside of our control. Please use caution when sharing personal information with Fedora on a mailing list, because it is not possible for us to remove any postings from the wider Internet universe after they are sent. For more details, please refer to Fedora's Privacy Policy.

Decide what you want to do

I want to work on the theme and appearance of Insight. Join the Design team, and look at our page on How to work on the Insight theme.
I want to help develop and maintain the Insight system. Introduce yourself to the team (see below), and look at our page on How to develop for Insight.
I want to represent Fedora in the Drupal community. Join the Ambassadors team -- being a Fedora representative is more than just being a fan. We would love to have you on our team once you are versed in how the project works.

Become part of our team

  1. Join the logistics mailing list and introduce yourself. Let us know:
    • Your name
    • Your skills/experiences/interests -- Even if you're active within another Fedora team, there may be other Fedora folks who haven't had the chance to meet you yet, so let them know who you are and that you're around!
    • The first task or ticket you plan to work on (see "Current issues" above) -- if you want to work on something else, tell us what it is
  2. (optional) Check out any other #Communications channels that you might be interested in.

Development

If you know something about Drupal or are a fast learner, we welcome you! We are working on designing the next group of features for Insight. Here are the use cases we've outlined thus far:

We're also starting to look forward to Drupal 7, and have started documenting critical path requirements for a future migration to Drupal 7 from Dupal 6:

Marketing

The Marketing team will be publishing its release deliverables on Fedora Insight, and will be the second users of the platform after #FWN.

We're currently figuring out additional content (other than our release deliverables) that would go into the #Content_workflow. Our current thinking is several ideas that have been filed as multiple tickets in the Marketing trac instance.

If you want to help with the Marketing side of things, do the following:

  1. Follow the instructions in the #How to help section of this page.
  2. Join the Marketing team, if you aren't already a member.
  3. Email the marketing list and let the Marketing team know you're interested in helping with Fedora Insight.

Packaging

We could always use packaging help for Drupal and related modules. If you see an unassigned (NEW) bug in this tracking list, that means there is a package review needed so we can make more progress. The Package Review Process page will show you how to do a review. It takes some time to do a good package review, but in the process you can learn some technical skills and about how this process ensures a good experience for Fedora users installing software.

Content workflow

This is a content workflow envisioned for Fedora Insight.

 +-------------------------+    +-----+ +-------+ +-------------+ +-----------+
 |Things that automatically|    |Press| |The Web| |Fedora Planet| |Original FI|
 |get sent to the moderator|    +-----+ +-------+ +-------------+ |content    |
 |queue for annotation     |        |       |           |         +-----------+
 +-------------------------+        |       |           |               |
 | * Board meeting minutes |        +-------+-----+-----+---------------+
 | * FESCo meeting minutes |                            |
 | * FAmSCo meeting minutes|                            |
 | * etc.                  |                            |
 +-------------------------+              +----------------------------+
             |                            | Discovered by interested   |
             |                     +----->| person, or submitted by    |   
             |                     |      | original author into...    |   
             |          resent to  |      +----------------------------+   
             |          submitter  |                    |                            
             |          with rationale                  |                             
             |                     |          +------------------+                        
             +---------------------+--------->| Moderator  Queue |         
                                   |          +------------------+         
                                   |          | Selects content  |         
                                  <NO>--------| and annotates    |          
                                              | selected content |
 +-------------------------+                  +------------------+
 |Things that automatically|                           |
 |get published (no mod)   |----+                    <YES>      
 +-------------------------+    |                      |             
 | * Fedora Weekly News    |    |       +----------------------------+
 | * Fedora-announce-list  |    +------>| Published in Fedora Insight|
 | * etc.                  |            +----------------------------+
 +-------------------------+                           |           
                                                       |
                                                   (READERS!)

History

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

Workflow

Fedora Insight Workflow

Insight development using Features module