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
Meetings are held weekly at IRC Freenode #fedora-meeting on Thursdays at 2pm US Eastern time.
See the time for your timezone using this helpful site.
- Review previous action items -- Last week's meeting
- Drupal status
- Packaging (Eric, Paul) - Pending drupal package reviews
- Theming (Hiemanshu, Jef)
- Views & book combo (Pascal)
- Feeds & ManagingNews discussion (Peter)
Project status
The Insight project plan shows our plan for completing work on Insight. Dates TBA.
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. |
| Quick links | |
| Insight customizations to Drupal -- Changes to core, additional modules and settings
Insight content configuration -- Additional customization work such as filters | |
Goals
- January 5? - Staging instance that produces working versions of the Fedora Weekly News with minimal editing required
- January 19? - Production instance that will appear at http://fedoraproject.org/insight
We need to check these dates against the freeze calendar.
How to help
- Look at the list of #Teams involved and pick the one(s) you're most closely matching your interests and skillset.
- 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.
- Join the logistics mailing list and introduce yourself. Let us know:
- Your name
- 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!)
- 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.
- (optional) Check out any other #Communications channels that you might be interested in.
Technologies
Our instance is based on Drupal, an 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 with 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 logistics mailing list. Mention that you'd like to help associate our project with the Drupal community.
There is a page on this wiki showing Insight customizations to Drupal. That page tracks changes that are made to the site configuration as we go, so it can be reproduced from scratch at any time. There is also a Insight content configuration page. If you are helping, please make sure to log your customizations on these pages.
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):
- coming soon
FWN beat page:
Fedora Insight main page:
Design
In order to help with the theme, you'll have to first set up a local copy of Drupal on your computer. Once you have a local copy of Drupal 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 the SSH method:
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:
- Copy the "fedora" folder within the checkout you just downloaded into the /etc/drupal/all/themes folder in your local Drupal sandbox install.
- Log into your local Drupal sandbox instance as the site administrator.
- Go to Administration > Layout > Theme, then select the Fedora theme.
To contribute patches back, you can either email your patches to the logistics mailing list, or you can apply for the git group for the theme in the Fedora Account System to commit to the repository.
If you are fixing a Trac ticket with your patch, you should update that ticket and email the logistics list to let people know what you've worked on. This helps keep everyone informed, but it also lets the list know about your contribution to the team so you can be recognized appropriately for your assistance.
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:
- Join the Marketing team (if you aren't already a member).
- Email the marketing list saying you're interested in helping with Fedora Insight.
- 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 Drupal and related modules. Here are the things we currently need work on:
- Drupal 6 is currently available for EL5 in EPEL 5-Testing. We can now package and ship modules in EPEL to go with the new drupal6 package.
- The modules we need are shown on the Insight customizations to Drupal page. They include our custom theme and authentication modules, but those are packaging efforts that will be specific to Fedora infrastructure since they aren't useful to the rest of the community (although they're still 100% FOSS and available to anyone of course). These modules are standard contributed modules in Drupal 6 and we need them packaged:
- Footnotes (review request: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642858)
- Advanced Help (review request: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642857)
- Flexifilter (review request: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642856)
- The following packages are already in Fedora and only need a branch for EL-5 once Drupal 6 has hit the EL repositories:
- Views (EL branch request: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=359911)
- CCK (EL branch request: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=359921)
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.