FreeMedia Infrastructure SOP

This page is for defining the SOP for Fedora FreeMedia Program. This will cover the infrastructural things as well as procedural things.

Location of Resources

• The web form is at https://fedoraproject.org/freemedia/FreeMedia-form.html
• The TRAC is at https://fedorahosted.org/freemedia/report

Location on Puppet

• Freemedia form: configs/web/applications/FreeMedia-form.html
• Backend processing script: configs/web/applications/process.php
• Error Document : configs/web/applications/FreeMedia-error.html

Opening of the form

The form will be opened on the First day of each month.

Closing of the Form

The form will be closed after a couple of days. This may vary according to the capacity.

• The form is available at puppet/configs/web/applications/FreeMedia-form.html
• At line number 31, you will find

  <h3>Fedora Free Media Request Form</h3>''

• Just below line 31, You will find the statement displayed when the form is closed.

'''<h4><br><br> Fedora Free Media form is now CLOSED.<br> Please contact your nearest <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/CountryList">Fedora Ambassador.</a></h4>

• Uncomment it and comment out everything below that line.

Handling of tickets

Login

• Contributors are requested to visit https://fedorahosted.org/freemedia/report
• Please login with your FAS account.

Rejecting Invalid Tickets

• If a ticket is invalid, don't accept the request. Go to "resolve as:" and select "invalid" and then press "Submit Changes".
• A ticket is Invalid if
  • No Valid email-id is provided.
  • The region does not match the country.
  • No Proper Address is given.
• If a ticket is duplicate, don't accept the request. Go to "resolve as:" and select "duplicate" and then press "Submit Changes".

Accepting Valid Tickets

• If you wish to fulfill a request, please ensure it from the above section, it is not liable to be discarded.

• Now "Accept" the ticket from the "Action" field at the bottom, and press the "Submit Changes" button.

• These accepted tickets will be available from https://fedorahosted.org/freemedia/report user both "My Tickets" and "Accepted Tickets for XX" (XX= your region e.g APAC)

• When You ship the request, please go to the ticket again, go to "resolve as:" from the "Action" field and select "Fixed" and then press "Submit Changes".

Handling of non fulfilled requests

We shall close all the pending requests by the end of the Month.