Insight project plan

This page is a light project plan for Fedora Insight.

Objective

To deploy a content management system for the Fedora Project; and to build around it a team of Fedora contributors who are passionate about maintaining it and serving other contributors with it.

Project name

Fedora Insight

Stakeholders

Project team

• Paul W. Frields (stickster) - Project manager
• Robyn Bergeron (rbergeron) - Marketing team
• Pascal Calarco (pcalarco) - Fedora Weekly News team
• Mairin Duffy (mizmo) - Design team
• Hiemanshu Sharma (gwerra) - Websites team
• Stephen Smoogen (smooge) - Infrastructure team

Others?

Receivers

• Jared Smith - FPL
• Mike McGrath - Infrastructure team lead

Customers

Primary

• Marketing team
• Fedora Weekly News team
• Media (journalists, reporters, bloggers)
• Fedora community members
• Fedora users

Secondary

• Documentation team
• General public

Deliverables

Phase 1

A working content management system at http://fedoraproject.org/insight, with the following functionality:

• Authentication to FAS
• Group assignment through FAS
• Working theme as prepared by the Design team
• Publication procedure for Fedora Weekly News

Phase 2

The following additional functionality:

• The ability to select items from configured RSS feeds to be promoted to publication and other tagging

Phase 3

The following additional functionality:

• The ability to publish and attach podcasts to a story
• Post announcements of podcast publication

Requirements

FWN

• Handle multiple beats
• Handle arbitrary number of beats per issue
• Publish new issue to front page with issue summary
• Link issue to ToC for easier reading

???

• Add another content type here and what we want from it

Tasks

• Determine all requirements
• Determine whether platform meets requirements
• Scope requirements into phases
• Deploy test instance
• For each requirement in phase:
  • Assign responsible contributor
  • Document procedure for fulfillment on wiki
  • Create appropriate facility in the platform
  • Have appropriate stakeholders test and accept
• Test -> Stage
  • Recreate facilities in staging instance
  • Have stakeholders test for consistency and accept
• Stage -> Production