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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.

Meeting agenda

Meeting day and time
Meetings are held weekly at IRC Freenode #fedora-meeting on Thursdays at 2pm US Eastern time.

Project status

Revising project plan
Please pardon our dust while we revise the Insight project plan. Our next steps are going to largely depend on that progress.

A query for the existing Fedora Insight tickets in the Fedora Infrastructure trac instance can be done here. New tickets should be added with the keywords of insight, zikula.

Mailing list IRC Channel
logistics IRC Freenode, #fedora-mktg
Testing instance Staging instance
http://publictest4.fedoraproject.org/drupal (testing)

Requires a FakeFAS account, not your regular FAS account. To access via SSH you must be in the sysadmin-test FAS group. To access administration functions via the Web you must be in the FakeFAS cmsadmin group.

None yet -- this status will change when we're ready for staging.

Here is a link to the Insight project plan.

Goals

Revisions on the way
Revisions will be made here according to the Insight project plan.

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.

Technologies

Zikula

One instance of Fedora Insight has been 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!)

If you're from the zikula community, or interested in being a Fedora ambassador to zikula, start by following the #How to help instructions for introducing yourself to the logistics mailing list, and mention that you'd like to help with the zikula community end of things.

Drupal

Another instance is based on Drupal, another open source PHP-based CMS. The Drupal codebase is entirely GPL and is managed in a similar way to Fedora (one previous major version is community-maintained).

If you have experience witih Drupal, or are interested in being a Fedora ambassador to the Drupal community, please follow the #How to help instructions to introduce yourself to the Template:Flist mailing list. Mention that you'd like to help associate our project with the Drupal community.

Teams involved

FWN

The Fedora Weekly News (FWN) team serves as the first users and testers of Fedora Insight as a content distribution mechanism.

FWN on Fedora Insight aggregated beats (requires FAS test authentication):

Fedora Insight main page showing FWN issues:

FWN-related Fedora Insight tickets: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2057 (new; 3/25/10)

Design

The Design team is responsible for making our site theme. You can see the work that needs to be done at the list of FI tickets in the Design trac instance.

In order to help with the theme, you'll have to first set up a local copy of zikula on your computer.

Once you have a local copy of zikula set up, you'll need to check out the current theme files. The repo is located at git://git.fedorahosted.org/git/fedora-insight-theme.git.

You can checkout the theme anonymously using

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

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

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

Once you have checked out the files for the theme, install the theme as follows:

  1. Copy the "fedora" folder within the checkout you just downloaded into the zikula/theme folder in your local zikula sandbox install (/usr/share/zikula/theme or /var/www/zikula/theme are common locations).
  2. Log into your local zikula sandbox instance as an administrator.
  3. Go to Administration > Layout > Theme, then click the green checkmark next to the name of the theme you want (fedora).

FIXME -- need instructions on how to contribute patches to the theme back to the git repo, and whether the trac ticket should be updated (answer: yes), and whether the logistics list should be notified (answer: yes).

Infrastructure

The Infrastructure team is helping us get Fedora Insight up on production (and keep it running there).

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

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. Join the Marketing team (if you aren't already a member).
  2. Email the marketing list saying you're interested in helping with Fedora Insight.
  3. Do this in addition to following the instructions in the #How to help section of this page.

Packaging

We could always use packaging help for zikula and related modules. Here are the things we currently need work on:

Content workflow

This is the current content workflow envisioned for the first version of 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

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