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[Fedora Infrastructure] #1227: Hosting footer
by fedora-badges 05 Jan '10

05 Jan '10

#1227: Hosting footer -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Reporter: mmcgrath | Owner: webmaster Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Fedora 11 Component: Webmaster | Version: Production Severity: Normal | Keywords: -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- This is something we've talked about many times but it's not quite implemented yet. I'd like to put footers at the bottom of our pages that reference a hosting provider. For an example see: http://us.pycon.org/2009/conference/schedule/event/21/ We can't build it directly into the templates because different places have different hosting. What I'd like to do is have our templates import a js script (or something). Then we can deploy a custom js script to each host that has the relevant information. If you're interested put a proof of concept together on your fedorapeople page. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1227> Fedora Infrastructure <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure> Fedora Infrastructure Project for Bugs, feature requests and access to our source code.

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Websites Meeting Time
by Ricky Zhou 18 Dec '09

18 Dec '09

Hey, as I mentioned in the meeting, this is the last week where I will be able to make websites meetings at the current time. Here's a whenisgood with my tentative good times starting from next week: http://whenisgood.net/zqfnad Please fill it in and hopefully we can find an alternative time that's good for everybody. Thanks, Ricky

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File not found
by Steen Jarbøel 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

This link Opgraderingsguide til Fedora 11 on page: http://fedoraproject.org/da/get-fedora does not work. Med venlig hilsen Steen Jarbøel Carstensgade 30 1770 København V Mobil: 26 15 37 64 "Slå følge med dem der søger sandheden, og vær på vagt overfor dem der mener de har fundet den." "Hver gang vi har forøget vores viden og indsigt, har vi fået en bedre verden og et bedre liv." Jens Martin Knudsen, 1930 - 2005.

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Stefan P. is here!
by Stefan Pavikevik 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

Hello guys. I have a great web developing experience of 3 years, I have developed many websites, and I am great designer. I specify in PHP, HTML, CSS, MySQL. I can do great web projects. _________________________________________________________________ Drag n’ drop—Get easy photo sharing with Windows Live™ Photos. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/photos.aspx

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Posting
by Brown, Tara M. 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

Hello, Wake Forest University is currently recruiting for a Senior Systems Administrator-Linux. Would it be possible to advertise the position via your forum? Thank you for your help! Tara Brown Manager, Talent Acquisition Human Resources 1834 Wake Forest Road Winston-Salem, NC 27109 browntm(a)wfu.edu p. 336.758.4378 f. 336.758.1627

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Updating the mail notification hook used for the fedora-web git repository
by Todd Zullinger 23 Aug '09

23 Aug '09

Hi all, I was thinking about updating the mail notification hooks used in the fedora-web git repository. We switched the infrastructure puppet repository to these a month or so back and they have worked well. The output is a bit nicer than the current hook and it is called from the proper place (the post-receive hook rather than the update hook that is currently (ab)used for this). Partly, I'd like to convert things so we can get wider testing of the newer hook scripts, with an eye toward eventually converting most of the other hosted repositories to these scripts. To that end, I whipped up a short shell script to do the dirty work: http://dpaste.com/hold/81486/ The script is also at ~tmz/bin/git-mail-hook-update on hosted1. I also noticed while looking at the config file for fedora-web.git (on hosted1) that we don't have receive.denyNonFastForwards set. This might be something good to enable. It prevents pushing updates that are not fast forwards, even if the --force option to push is used. This option is set when initializing a shared repository. I think that when the fedora-web git repo was setup on fedorahosted.org that it was not created as a shared repository. Either that or it was done so long ago that the git version in use did not do this by default. My bet is on the former, as the config also has 'bare = false' and some other options that are not typically set when creating a bare, shared, repository -- like having branch and remote settings. So with permission, I'd also like to update the config file to look like this (as well as adding the hooks.mailinglist setting): [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = true sharedrepository = 1 [receive] denyNonFastforwards = true The diff with the current config is: --- /git/fedora-web.git/config~ 2009-01-08 21:19:38.000000000 +0000 +++ /git/fedora-web.git/config 2009-08-16 22:05:51.000000000 +0000 @@ -1,12 +1,7 @@ [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true - bare = false - logallrefupdates = true + bare = true sharedrepository = 1 -[remote "origin"] - url = /git/fedora-web.git - fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* -[branch "master"] - remote = origin - merge = refs/heads/master +[receive] + denyNonFastforwards = true Sound good? -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me. -- Richard Powers

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Export Regulations Mock up.
by Sijis Aviles 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

All, I've made the suggested changes brought up during Friday's meeting. Its using jquery and the jquery expander plugin (same as community). The CSS can be tidied up a bit but this should be good for right now. Please let me know if this is not what was anticipated http://sijis.fedorapeople.org/get-fedora.html Sijis

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by FRANCOIS & HELEN BIZALION 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

How do I change my web address home page, when you type bizalions.com I get the fedora test page. I deleted my landing page and my web site is now one page and the address www.bizalions.com/giftpage.html.

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Meeting Log - 2009-08-21
by Ricky Zhou 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

17:00 < ricky> #startmeeting Fedora Websites 17:00 < zodbot> Meeting started Fri Aug 21 17:00:23 2009 UTC. The chair is ricky. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 17:00 < zodbot> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 17:00 -!- zodbot changed the topic of #fedora-websites to: (Meeting topic: Fedora Websites) 17:00 < ricky> #topic Who's here? 17:00 -!- zodbot changed the topic of #fedora-websites to: Who's here? (Meeting topic: Fedora Websites) 17:00 * mchua is here! 17:00 * ricky 17:00 * hiemanshu is here 17:00 < ricky> sijis, nb_, tmz, anybody else who's interested: ping 17:00 < hiemanshu> sijis, onekopaka_away, nb ping 17:00 < ricky> Darn, I always manage to forget some 17:01 < hiemanshu> ricky, your getting better at it :P 17:02 < ricky> OK then 17:02 < ricky> #topic {get,spins}.fedoraproject.org 17:02 -!- zodbot changed the topic of #fedora-websites to: {get,spins}.fedoraproject.org (Meeting topic: Fedora Websites) 17:02 < ricky> So back to what we were discussing 17:03 * hiemanshu was supposed to work on get.fp.o 17:03 < hiemanshu> i havent got much time off this week 17:03 < ricky> Unfortunately, we can't sit tight and just take feedback until the week of the F12 release :-/ 17:04 -!- rdieter [n=rdieter(a)sting.unl.edu] has joined #fedora-websites 17:04 < ricky> I think the "allocate X time for feedback" went a bit out of hand 17:04 < mchua> hey, rdieter! 17:04 < mchua> ricky: you mean the f-a-b discussion? 17:04 < ricky> Yeah 17:05 < mchua> ricky: sorry, I've been out of touch with websites lately and don't know what the timeline for both redesigns looks like... how is the current discussion affecting that timeline? 17:05 < ricky> I think the comments focus more on get.fp.o than spins.fp.o though, so I think we should talk with mizmo to get a close-to-final set of mockups and start working on HTML/CSS for that part 17:05 < hiemanshu> ricky, she says the current ones are close to final 17:06 < ricky> mchua: We basically have two months from now to have spins.fp.o finished 17:06 < hiemanshu> two months is pretty less from what i see 17:06 < ricky> We may be able to stretch that date if we accept having fewer translations for release and having many of them come in after the release 17:07 < mchua> ricky: whoa, that's tight. what's the wiki page (or wherever) with dates? 17:07 * mchua hunts 17:07 < ricky> http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-12/f-12-web-tasks.html 17:08 < mchua> oh - I hadn't realized that get and spins were there, is that "Update Website Content"? 17:08 < ricky> The nice thing about working on spins.fp.o is that it's a requirement for get.fp.o and not the other way around 17:08 < ricky> Well... the 2 months I gave were from now until the string freeze 17:08 < ricky> There's some flexible time between the two for things like testing 17:09 * sijis is here. 17:09 < mchua> ricky: if this isn't the time for me to ask questions about the redesign schedule, I can ask them later, but it is something I'm confused about from the perspective of figuring out how marketing can help out with the process. 17:10 < ricky> It's good to get everybody up to date on dates/requiremets 17:10 < ricky> **requirements 17:11 < ricky> So is there anything else anybody wants to discuss on this? 17:11 * hiemanshu leaves 17:11 < hiemanshu> sorry guys 17:11 * mchua waves at hiemanshu 17:11 < hiemanshu> I need to leave 17:11 < ricky> mchua: If you see mizmo, mind asking her if we can start HTMLifying the latest set of spins mockups? 17:11 < ricky> hiemanshu: See you later, thanks for coming 17:11 < hiemanshu> Bye ricky 17:11 < hiemanshu> and sorry 17:11 -!- hiemanshu is now known as hiemanshu|AFK 17:11 < mchua> ricky: don't think she's in the office today, so might want to just send an email to list and cc her 17:11 < ricky> No worries 17:12 < ricky> Cool, will do 17:12 < mchua> ricky: I had a few questions on the get/spins redesign, I can splurt them all out here and you can tell me which ones are out of scope for this meeting. 17:12 < ricky> Feel free to splurt away 17:12 < mchua> 1. what's the schedule like - what are the milestones for various deliverables, and who's responsible and accountable for hitting them? 17:13 < ricky> Maybe we need to get more specific, but right now, all I have is: get everything done by 2009-10-20 17:13 < mchua> 2. where is the canonical place for the design discussion currently on f-a-b to be held? (f-a-b seems like a strange place to have that conversation, maybe here or the design list might be a better choice... but that convo has a lot of inertia) 17:13 < mchua> ricky: more specific please :) 17:13 < ricky> That includes spins and get-fedora, parts of which can hopefully be done in parallel 17:13 < mchua> ricky: basically, as someone who hasn't been deeply involved in the discussions so far, but who is interested in helping out, it's hard for me to find out what is going on and what needs to be done and what opportunities there are to help. 17:13 < ricky> But I don't see any way to split the task up better - "done" means having HTML and CSS in a git repo + the setup in infrastructure to pull/build from it 17:14 < sijis> let me get this straight: 1009/10/12 we are suppose to have spins/get completed for f12 release? 17:14 < mchua> ricky: and since I am an engineer, I'm phrasing this as "where's the deliverables schedule?" 17:14 < ricky> What needs to be done is - a final mockup PNG needs to be become an HTML/CSS page 17:14 < ricky> That's pretty much the only deliverable 17:15 < ricky> There are some other todo items: 17:15 < mchua> ricky: hm, maybe we can work on trying to break that down and spec it out a bit more. 17:15 < ricky> Contact current spins creators, find out what info they need 17:15 < mchua> (perhaps after the meeting) 17:15 < mchua> ricky: #-action logging goodness? 17:16 < ricky> #action Design a format for them to push changes that are valid HTML - some options are giving them web membership or pulling from a file on fedorapeople.org 17:16 < ricky> #action Contact current spins creators, find out what info they need on the pages 17:17 < ricky> I'm leaning towards either the first or a "file ticket and we make the change" thing for the push method, since pulling from a random file makes it too easy to make an HTML mistake and kill the build script 17:17 < ricky> This is slightly dependent on what type of information we get on the site though. 17:17 < ricky> If it's more cookie-cutter, we can have them fill in text file that we parse the info out of 17:17 < sijis> we'd also need to verify mizmo's mockup is final. 17:18 < ricky> #action Get a final mockup and start HTMLizing 17:18 < ricky> 2) f-a-b is the canonical place - that was what the board decided, for whatever reason 17:19 < ricky> So that's why it started out there - this kind of discussion has happened on fedora-websites-list in the past as well 17:19 < sijis> what's f-a-b again? 17:19 < ricky> fedora-advisory-board 17:19 < mchua> fedora advisory board 17:19 < sijis> i'm seeing double. :) 17:19 < mchua> ricky: yeah, the "for whatever reason" is the part I'm trying to find out, since several people seem to be curious about the history of that 17:19 < ricky> Heh, who's curious about that? 17:19 < mchua> found the meeting logs and they work to satisfy my curiosity, though 17:20 < mchua> ricky: Sho_ on #fedora-kde, most recently 17:20 < ricky> I think the logic is that the goal of the page is decided by the board, and so dispute about that goal goes there 17:20 < mchua> ricky: oh, 3. is there a project page for the get/spins redesign? (are we using the stuff on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites#Projects)? 17:20 < ricky> There are questions of the "what is Fedora" and "who is our target audience" type which have historically been board questions 17:21 < sijis> i do remember it being the board's primary goal to have spins/get done first. 17:21 < sijis> (or at least that was the impression i got) 17:21 < ricky> mchua: Not that I know of - would having it on paper help? 17:22 < mchua> ricky: tremendously. 17:22 < ricky> Is the info from above enough to populate such a page? 17:22 < mchua> ricky: Yes. 17:22 < mchua> ricky: well, to start. :) 17:23 < mchua> ricky: I should be able to take a first crack at it... /me checks to-do list for the week to see what else is on plate 17:23 < ricky> Let me now if you need more - now's a good time 17:23 < mchua> w00t, I can do it. 17:23 < sijis> so are we putting the progress on that wiki page? 17:23 < mchua> #action mchua to take a first crack at getting {get, join}.fp.o project pages + schedules + etc. together 17:23 < sijis> or next steps, what's needed to be done, etc? 17:24 < mchua> sijis: yes. 17:24 < mchua> my plan is to take a first pass and then come back here and have you all tell me how wrong I am ;) 17:24 < mchua> and poelcat too 17:25 * ricky wonders if any board people are around 17:25 < ricky> One question for people on all sides of the get-fedora argument... 17:25 < ricky> How long can discussion go on for before a new get-fedora for F12 becomes an impossibility? 17:26 < mchua> ricky: I think that's something that websites-from-the-infra side would have to answer, actualy. 17:26 < mchua> er, actually. 17:26 * mchua no typey good today. 17:26 < mchua> ricky: what's the freeze date by which everything in its final form *must* be uploaded to... where? 17:26 < ricky> Darn, I was hoping the board would handle the hard questions :-) 17:26 < sijis> haah. 17:27 < ricky> I don't think the uploaded part is all that important, since that step is kind of a trivial one 17:27 < sijis> we should work on spins and get simultanously but focus mostly on spins if time gets too tight. 17:27 < ricky> The site (in a form that is ready for infra to put up) needs to be done by string freeze 17:28 < ricky> Then it needs to sit there and get translated (although non-string improvements can still be made) 17:28 < mchua> ricky: what makes it ready for infra to put up? 17:28 < mchua> ricky: when is string freeze? 17:28 -!- mizmo [n=duffy@nat/redhat/x-amotditbznfenxdt] has joined #fedora-websites 17:28 < mchua> ricky: where will "done" be? 17:28 < mchua> hey mizmo! 17:29 < ricky> Woo, hi 17:29 * hiemanshu|AFK is back 17:29 -!- hiemanshu|AFK is now known as hiemanshu 17:29 < ricky> mchua: I'll try to answer that in a "what steps would I take" way: 17:29 < mizmo> hi mchua! 17:30 < mchua> ricky: thanks :) and sorry for asking so many pedantic stupid questions, I'm trying to make sure I grok everything before attacking that project page task 17:30 < ricky> 1) Copy the website building boilerplate from the fedoraproject.org directory, make modifications to the script, etc. for spins.fp.o (might not need any) 17:30 < ricky> 2) Convert a mockup into HTML/CSS 17:30 < ricky> 3) Rip out the content and put them into pages 17:31 < ricky> The string freeze is 10/20, so that's easy to remember :-) 17:31 < ricky> #link http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-12/f-12-web-tasks.html 17:31 < ricky> mizmo: Hey, so some questions we had - the spins mockup pretty much ready for us to start converting into HTML/CSS? 17:31 < ricky> **is the 17:32 < mizmo> ricky: well..... 17:32 < mizmo> ricky: it still needs work, but that front page mockup is close 17:32 * ricky knows that a comments thread just popped up pretty late on f-a-b, but that seemed focused more on get.fp.o 17:32 < mizmo> i could make a quick update to it now, 17:32 < mizmo> but the main thing i want to do based on the feedback i got in my blog 17:32 < mizmo> is to put all the spins into two tabs 17:33 < mizmo> the default tab is 'by popularity' and sorts them in order of popularity listing out number of downloads this week 17:33 < mizmo> the second tab is 'Spins A-Z' to show them in alphabetical order 17:33 < ricky> #action Get an estimate of how many spins we will have for launch 17:33 < mizmo> it would be trivial to add that to the mockup 17:33 < mizmo> yeh a few of the spins in the mockup are bogus 17:33 < mizmo> art studio wont be ready for instance 17:33 < mizmo> (afaik anyway) 17:33 < ricky> No huge rush, actually - mchua made me realize that there are a few things we can be doing before we're ready for the HTMLifying part 17:34 < mizmo> ah okay 17:34 < ricky> OK - the other question is - how much time can we spend on getting get-fedora feedback before it becomes impossible to get it ready for F12? :-( 17:34 < ricky> That could be a question for stickster_afk too 17:35 < mizmo> yeh 17:35 < mizmo> i think maybe what we say is 17:35 < mizmo> well first of all maybe in the future we should have scheduled 'get feedback' windows and once they're closed they're closed 17:36 < mizmo> now that we're getting a usability lab i think we should have time in the schedule to test the designs as well 17:36 < mizmo> for f12 17:36 < ricky> Coool @ the usability lab 17:36 < mizmo> i think we should say, we've opened up for feedback, we need to get something out, what we have is crap 17:36 < mizmo> this is our best try at making something better, 17:36 < mizmo> we'll schedule usability testing of it as soon as it comes out 17:36 < mizmo> and try to identify problems early 17:36 < mizmo> it sounds like mmcgrath may also be interested in generating metrics on it 17:37 < ricky> Sounds good 17:37 < mizmo> in an ideal world, of course, we'd have the design prototyped in html/css right now and be running usability tests on it and have room in the schedule to make fixes based on the test results before we went live but 17:37 < mizmo> it's not an ideal world :) 17:37 < ricky> Hehe 17:37 < mizmo> and as far as usability is concerned its never an ideal world lol 17:37 < ricky> We discussed dates a bit earlier 17:37 * mchua struggling to figure out how to put all this into a schedule 17:38 < ricky> The big one coming up right now is the string freeze on 10/20 17:38 < mchua> mizmo, ricky: get.fp.o and join.fp.o = two projects, or one? 17:38 < ricky> mchua: Two projects, I think I moved join.fp.o to f13 on trac 17:39 < ricky> So that's about 2 months from now 17:39 < ricky> Should we try to block that out a bit more now? 17:40 * ricky is afraid that he may become very unreliable with Fedora time once school starts :-/ 17:40 < mchua> Yeah... back-figuring from the string freeze, all the phases mizmo just outlined, which ones are we still going to try to do properly, which ones are we going to try to do really quickly, which ones are we going to drop... and from that, when will the intervening dates be? 17:40 < hiemanshu> ricky, school? 17:40 < ricky> Yeah 17:40 < hiemanshu> ricky, how old are you? 17:40 < mchua> ricky: if things get tied into marketing's schedule, I can make sure they drive forward, though that's of limited use when the tasks in question are actually infra/design ones 17:41 * ricky is 19 17:41 * mchua runs to rescue burning bagel 17:41 < ricky> mchua: Oh yeah, we need to discuss what marketing has in mind as well 17:41 * hiemanshu is as old as ricky :) 17:41 < sijis> damn, i feel really old :) 17:42 < ricky> mizmo: Do you think spins.fp.o being done is a requisite for get.fp.o, or are they kind of parallel things? 17:42 * mchua now has bagel charcoal. *crunch* *grimace* 17:42 < mizmo> ricky: the board said that spins.fpo is a prerequisite for the redesign 17:43 < mizmo> mchua: lol crunch crunch 17:43 < mizmo> sijis: im 28 dont feel old :) 17:43 < mizmo> sijis: ricky is one of our young geniuses 17:43 * sijis is 29 17:43 < ricky> OK, so we'll concentrate on spins now 17:43 < sijis> mizmo: yeah, i can tell. 17:44 < ricky> #action Commence the fedora-web git work for the new spins site 17:44 < mizmo> i started mocking up the spins details pages but they are gonna be more complex than i origianlly thought 17:44 < hiemanshu> mizmo, so is there any update of get.fp.o mockup? 17:44 < mizmo> hiemanshu: not since the last post i made to planet fedora with it 17:44 < ricky> mizmo: Do you have a good idea of what info spins creators want on that page/how much flexibility we will give? 17:44 < hiemanshu> ricky, shall i start working on the HTML? 17:44 < sijis> so, whatever is desinged for spins, we will redesign *.fp.o following that? 17:45 < ricky> hiemanshu: I'm not 100% sure that there is something in a final state to convert to HTML yet. 17:45 < mizmo> ricky: i think for now they should be fairly rigid just so we can get them done 17:45 < mizmo> ricky: so they'd just be able to customize the description and what downloads are offered to start, and maybe have some subpages 17:45 < hiemanshu> ricky, mizmo says it close to final, so i think we can start 17:45 < mizmo> ricky: chitlesh right now has an electronic lab page he uses 17:45 < mizmo> ricky: it has a LOT of custom content. i dont know if we want to support that right out the door 17:45 < ricky> OK 17:46 < mizmo> check it, see the sidebar on the left http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/ 17:46 < ricky> Also, the skin for spins.fp.o - which one do you plan to use? 17:46 < mizmo> hmm 17:47 < sijis> so spins is like an intro about the actual spin. maybe we could add a 'visit their webpage' for more complete details, etc.. 17:47 < ricky> Something close to the final planned one, or something closer to the current one? I guess the sidebar might affect how you design things a bit 17:47 < ricky> Well, and colors and everything else too :-) 17:47 < mizmo> i dont know, i think the new skin on the spins.fpo mockup could be easy enough to do. but this is all easy enough, it just adds up quickly 17:48 < mizmo> im not sure. i guess my gut feel would be use the current site template just so that get.fpo and the spins site match look & feel 17:48 < ricky> OK, that'll hopefully mean a tiny bit less frantic browser testing then 17:49 < mizmo> yeh 17:49 < ricky> OK, so let's try to estimate how long converting something like this to HTML/CSS will take 17:50 < hiemanshu> ricky, i would say anywhere between 3 days to 2 weeks per page (depending on the amount of time one can put in) 17:50 < ricky> Heh, you never know what infuriating CSS bug will cause that jump :-) 17:51 < mizmo> exactly 17:51 < mchua> is this the process? requirements gathering ---> design mockups -- > [[You Are Here! arrow]] --> gather feedback && metrics && usability testing --> design mockups final --> convert to html/css --> onto infrastructure 17:51 < mizmo> mchua: well we can never gather metrics until the site goes live 17:51 < mchua> (and right now we're talking about how much time the "convert to html/css" part will take) 17:51 < hiemanshu> ricky, as i said depends on how much time you can put in :) 17:51 < ricky> Yeah 17:51 < mchua> mizmo: woops, should have been "determine metrics" 17:52 < mizmo> i also think that's a bit more idealized :) i think the way it will have to acually go down is 17:52 < mchua> mizmo: like your suggestion on f-a-b of finding our expected dl growth and comparing to actual to see how much the redesign affects things 17:52 < ricky> I think given a mockup of a couple of pages, I can get the buildscript and repo stuff in a 2-3 days at most if I can find the time. 17:52 < mizmo> requirements & determine metrics => mockup design <=> gather feedback (we are here now and cycling between it and design) => implement HTML/CSS => Final => metric gathering & usability testing 17:53 < mizmo> er although we're doing the metric determination now while we gather feedback 17:53 < mchua> yup, that's why i reckoned the "you are here" arrow was where it is 17:54 < mchua> and that all those three things (metric determination, feedback gathering, maybe maybe usability testing) would be in parallel 17:54 < mizmo> well i think ideally we'd determine the metrics with the requirements 17:54 < mizmo> maybe 17:55 < ricky> OK, so as a very rough estimate, converting to HTML/CSS + the buildscript work might take 2-3 weeks total - does that sound good? 17:55 < ricky> (Maybe even less if we can get some large bursts of work in here) 17:55 * mchua votes 3 weeks, to make absolutely sure 17:55 < mizmo> sounds good, but hopeful lol 17:55 < ricky> Heh 17:55 < mizmo> id want you to be able to say 3-4 weeks 17:56 < mchua> in that case, I'd vote 4 weeks. :) 17:56 * mchua trying to nail down start/end dates for tasks, like poelstra did with the various F12 schedues. 17:56 < ricky> Will that work for you though? I know you're probably loaded with release design stuff around onw 17:56 < sijis> i think 4 weeks is very resonable. 17:56 < hiemanshu> 4 weeks should be good 17:57 < mchua> mizmo: the process I put up there is totally idealistic, it's the "given infinite resources, woooo!" one, so we know exactly where we're having to squeeze/cut things for this time around. 17:57 -!- stickster_afk is now known as stickster 17:57 < mizmo> yeh 17:57 < ricky> So based on this, we'll want to start HTMLizing mockups on around Sept 29 17:58 < ricky> mizmo: So does that (+- a few days) give us a good idea of when we need to cut off the mockup + feedback cycle? 17:59 < mizmo> ricky: yeh i would say lets cut it off end of next week 17:59 < hiemanshu> ricky, i'd start we start 4 weeks from now, around 20th Sept 17:59 < sijis> and from now till then, what are we doing? .... 17:59 < ricky> OK, that'd work too as long as it's not too tight on design 17:59 < hiemanshu> ricky, we can keep an extra week for unseen bugs 17:59 * mchua pasting schedule so far here, one sec 17:59 < mchua> DONE: requirements gathering 17:59 * sijis steps away in for a bit. 17:59 < mchua> DONE: design mockups 17:59 < mchua> NOW - $date1 : gather feedback && metrics && usability testing 17:59 < mchua> $date1 - $date2 :design mockups final 17:59 < mchua> sep 29 - oct 20: convert to html/css 17:59 < mchua> oct 20 : onto infrastructure 17:59 < ricky> Until then, we need to start work on the infrastructure side of things 17:59 < mchua> values for $date1 and $date2? 18:00 < hiemanshu> mchua, sept 20 18:00 < hiemanshu> for convert 18:00 < ricky> (As in preparing a spins.fedoraproject.org/ directory, working on the ability to get download metrics) 18:00 < mchua> hiemanshu: as an "ideally we'll start now," or a "if we haven't started by now, the universe explodes" date? 18:00 < ricky> mizmo: Oh, and just to be clear on this - the design will assume that we have a mapping from spin to # torrent downloads, right 18:00 < mchua> hiemanshu: one can always start tasks earlier if all dependencies have been met, I'm going for "we absolutely have to hit these dates" dates 18:00 < hiemanshu> mchua, Ideally we'll start now 18:01 < ricky> I think skvidal has already made that info easy to get for fcomm, so we should be able to take advantage of it as well 18:01 -!- poelcat [n=poelcat@fedora/poelcat] has joined #fedora-websites 18:01 < mizmo> ricky: yep 18:01 < hiemanshu> mchua, but a closer looking date makes people think that we need to gear up to finish rest by that time 18:01 < mizmo> ricky: eg electronic lab would have x86_64 and an x86 torrents 18:02 < mizmo> because i think he does both 18:02 < ricky> OK, so I guess we'd store them separate as opposed to a sum then. 18:02 < mchua> hiemanshu: personally, I don't put padding into schedules to hurry folks up; the dates that things need to be done by are the dates that they should be listed, because otherwise folks think "oh, well, it's okay if we slip." 18:02 < ricky> OK, so we still have a number of things on the agenda, so any objections to moving on now? 18:03 < mizmo> ricky: he has non-torrent dls too http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/index.html 18:03 < hiemanshu> mchua, well from what i have seen so far, people usually tend to slip 18:03 < ricky> mizmo: Yow, some of that info will be harder for us to get. 18:03 * mchua can pick up the schedule design discussion here later, sure. 18:03 < hiemanshu> mchua, so keeping it up at 20th will make it slip by a week 18:03 < hiemanshu> so we start by 29th 18:03 < ricky> Same for the KDE spin 18:04 < ricky> OK, so let's cut this off for now and continue after the meeting if we still have more to discuss 18:04 < mchua> hiemanshu: if we know we're going to slip, then we should just put the latest date we can slip to as the actual deadline, because that's what deadlines are supposed to be (imo - ymmv... I'm not the one driving the schedule, just drafting it up today.) 18:04 < mchua> ricky: +1 18:04 < ricky> #topic Export Disclaimer 18:04 -!- zodbot changed the topic of #fedora-websites to: Export Disclaimer (Meeting topic: Fedora Websites) 18:05 < ricky> This is just a quick update - sijis got a full get-fedora mockup with the disclaimer 18:05 < hiemanshu> mchua, after the meeting :) 18:05 < ricky> sijis: Do you have a link to that handy? 18:05 < sijis> no 18:05 -!- morpheuss [n=pawn@unaffiliated/morpheuss] has joined #fedora-websites 18:05 < hiemanshu> ricky, was it in the list? 18:05 < sijis> sijis.fpeople.o 18:05 < ricky> Ah here it is: http://sijis.fedorapeople.org/get-fedora 18:05 -!- daMaestro [n=jon@fedora/damaestro] has joined #fedora-websites 18:05 < mizmo> sijis: i poked around with the css for the export disclaimer this morning and honestly, i think it looks better the way you got it, with one nit 18:05 < mizmo> sijis: can we change how the show/hide works? the arrorw is small and kind of hard to targe 18:06 < mizmo> sijis: i was hoping maybe we could do something like this: 18:06 < ricky> hiemanshu: Not quite yet ^ 18:06 < mizmo> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ 18:06 < mizmo> if you scroll down, you see the planet bubbles 18:06 < ricky> hiemanshu: This will probably get pushed through a little faster than normal since it's legal askin for it 18:06 < mizmo> they have "Show more" with a little down arrow 18:06 < hiemanshu> ricky, yes 18:06 < mizmo> and then when you open them 18:06 < hiemanshu> sijis, well the down arrow should be probably gone 18:06 < mizmo> they say "hide full post content" with an up arrow - and the down arrow disappears 18:06 < ricky> Ooh, that looks nice 18:06 < hiemanshu> when its been pressed 18:07 < mizmo> so what i would suggest is 18:07 -!- hammergod_ [n=chat-Box(a)117.198.129.107] has joined #fedora-websites 18:07 < mizmo> "View export agreement" + down arrow 18:07 < mizmo> click that 18:07 < mizmo> then the view export agreement + down arrow disappear and at the bottom you have 'Hide export agreement' + up arrow 18:07 < mizmo> what do you think? 18:07 < hiemanshu> mizmo, +1 18:07 < hiemanshu> exactly what i was thinking of 18:07 < ricky> Sounds good to me - a link definitely seems easier to click 18:08 < mizmo> it'd match the mechanism we have on fedora community too which i think is good 18:08 < mizmo> consistency = yay 18:08 < mizmo> sijis: is that something you can do? 18:08 < sijis> ok. ill fix that 18:08 < mizmo> sijis: the ones on fedora community use jquery 18:08 < mizmo> sijis: im not sure what you're using for yours but i can get you the jquery script if you need it 18:08 < sijis> i can try :) 18:08 < mizmo> kk 18:08 < hiemanshu> sijis, you could kind of rips of the functions and add yours :) 18:08 < sijis> if u ca send thatbwould be great 18:08 < hiemanshu> rip* 18:09 < mizmo> sijis: sure thing, ill send to sijis(a)fedoraproject.org? 18:09 < hiemanshu> sijis, you can look in the header and get the link to it 18:09 < ricky> Yeah, we used to have jquery on the website, but we weren't using it anywhere, so I took it out 18:09 < ricky> I don't remember how large it was 18:09 < hiemanshu> IIRC around 100kb 18:09 < ricky> Woah :-) 18:09 < hiemanshu> jquery is a big one 18:10 * mchua needs to drop out for a sec, but will be here if pinged 18:10 < sijis> mizmo: that email willwork 18:10 < ricky> Hopefully we can rip out the bits we need from it then 18:10 < ricky> Some people in Europe get pretty bad download speeds from our website, so we try to keep things pretty slim 18:10 * sijis is on his phone 18:10 < ricky> Thanks for working on this, sijis & mizmo 18:10 < ricky> Next: 18:10 -!- ghjskl [n=chat-Box(a)117.198.129.107] has joined #fedora-websites 18:10 < ricky> #topic Websites Meeting Time 18:10 -!- zodbot changed the topic of #fedora-websites to: Websites Meeting Time (Meeting topic: Fedora Websites) 18:11 < mizmo> sijis: it's here https://fedorahosted.org/fedoracommunity/browser/fedoracommunity/widgets/te… 18:11 < mizmo> ill email it too 18:11 < sijis> ok. 18:11 < ricky> So this is the last meeting that I can make at this time :-/ 18:12 < hiemanshu> ricky, FESco the only reason? 18:12 < ricky> If this time is already good for everybody, we can definitely leave it as is, but it'd be good if we can find another one as well :-) 18:12 < ricky> Nope, class :-) 18:12 < hiemanshu> ahhh 18:12 < mizmo> ricky: sijis did all the work lol 18:12 < hiemanshu> this time is fine with me (10:30 pm my time) 18:12 < mizmo> im totally open to moving to another time 18:13 < hiemanshu> +/- 1 would work for /me 18:13 < ricky> mchua: What was that site you used to collect meeting times again? Could you possibly send one of those to f-w-l? :-) 18:13 < mchua> ricky: whenisgood.net 18:13 < mchua> ricky: you probably want to initiate it so that it's set up with times that work for you 18:14 < ricky> So watch out for that email, and please fill in the good times for you :-) 18:14 < ricky> Will do 18:14 < ricky> #topic Open Floor 18:14 -!- zodbot changed the topic of #fedora-websites to: Open Floor (Meeting topic: Fedora Websites) 18:14 < sijis> +/- 1 or 2 is good 18:14 < hiemanshu> ricky, will -1 work for you? 18:14 < ricky> OK, that's pretty much all I have, feel free to continue with the get/spins stuff if you want :-) 18:14 * mchua can continue site redesign schedule discussion here, or after meeting, as folks prefer. 18:14 < mizmo> -1 is harder for me cuz that's lunch time 18:15 < mizmo> but we'll hash it out on the list maybe 18:15 < ricky> hiemanshu: I'll have to see - I'll a week completely blocked out in the email that I send 18:15 < sijis> mizmo: ypu west coast 18:15 < mchua> yeah, ricky sending out the whenisgood should pretty much solve everything 18:15 < hiemanshu> ricky, that should work 18:15 < sijis> i agree 18:16 < mizmo> oh i have something to ask about get.fpo 18:16 < mizmo> how will we handle mirrors 18:16 < mizmo> are we disregarding them for get.fpo? 18:16 < hiemanshu> mizmo, get-fedora-all page? 18:16 < hiemanshu> close to what we have now 18:16 * sijis goes away 18:16 < hiemanshu> bye sijis 18:17 < ricky> Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by handling mirrors 18:17 -!- daMaestro [n=jon@fedora/damaestro] has quit "Leaving" 18:17 < mizmo> ricky: well right now we have a link and if you want to download from a mirror you hunt it down on mirrors.fpo 18:17 < mizmo> ricky: i think ideally you'd click on the DL link and it'd route you to the right mirror 18:17 * hiemanshu was right, yay! 18:17 < mizmo> looking them up manually is nuts 18:17 < ricky> That's what download.fedoraproject.org does right now 18:18 < hiemanshu> mizmo, we would need an advanced options page 18:18 -!- daMaestro [n=jon@fedora/damaestro] has joined #fedora-websites 18:18 < hiemanshu> (for metalinks and jigdo) 18:18 < ricky> Looking up is mainly used for when the one you automatically get directed to fails for whatever reason, or you can make a better manual choice than the redirector does 18:18 < mizmo> ricky: download.fpo or get.fpo? download.fpo points to a red hat site 18:18 < ricky> We run download.fedoraproject.org, and all it does is choose a mirror for you and redirect you to it 18:18 < ricky> Try this: wget download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux 18:18 < mizmo> it points me here http://download.fedora.devel.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux// 18:19 < mizmo> ricky: so why can't the download button on get.fpo do the same thing? 18:19 * hiemanshu gets to http://mirror.cse.iitk.ac.in/fedora// 18:19 < mizmo> or does it 18:19 < ricky> Ah, that's because somebody setup a mirrormanager rule to redirect you to an internal mirror 18:19 < mizmo> ohhhhh okay 18:19 < ricky> It does if you try from say, fedorapeople.org 18:19 < mizmo> ricky: so is there a way we can make that work so you click the 'download now' button on get.fpo and it points you to the desktop livemedia iso x86 from an appropriate mirror? 18:20 < ricky> Yes :-) That's basically exactly what we have right now 18:20 < hiemanshu> mizmo, isnt it how it works right now? 18:20 < ricky> (As in download.fedoraproject.org performs the function of redirecting you to the proper mirror) 18:20 < hiemanshu> /nod 18:20 < ricky> (Based on rules manually entered in mirrormanager and other info such as geolocation on your IP address) 18:21 < mizmo> ricky: ohhh okay 18:21 < mizmo> sweet 18:21 < mizmo> the best features are the ones u dont notice and JustWork TM :) 18:22 < ricky> Hehe 18:23 < mchua> can I pop in and finish the scheduling discussion for website redesign real quick here? 18:23 < mchua> there are only 2 questions we need answered 18:24 < hiemanshu> mchua, shoot 18:24 < mchua> mizmo: we have 5 full weeks from tuesday until our "start html/css mockups" deadline (sep 29) (or if we go with hiemanshu's sep 20 deadline, 4 full weeks almost exactly.) 18:24 < mchua> mizmo: given that those 5 (or 4) weeks need to have both "get feedback + determine metrics" and then "make final design mockups" phases 18:24 < mchua> mizmo: how long do you want to spend on each? 18:25 < mchua> mizmo: (in other words, at what date do you want to put a hard cutoff on feedback-gathering?) 18:25 < mizmo> mchua: i dont want to spend any longer than till next friday on get feedback + determine metrics 18:26 < mchua> mizmo: that's pretty tight, but if you say you need 3-4 weeks to make the final mockups, then you need 3-4 weeks to make the final mockups. 18:26 < mchua> in that case our schedule is 18:26 < mchua> DONE: requirements gathering 18:26 < mchua> DONE: design mockups 18:26 < mchua> NOW - Aug 28 : gather feedback && metrics && usability testing 18:26 < mchua> Aug 28 - Sep 29 :design mockups final 18:26 < mchua> sep 29 - oct 20: convert to html/css 18:26 < mchua> oct 20 : onto infrastructure 18:26 -!- hammergod_ [n=chat-Box(a)117.198.129.107] has quit Connection timed out 18:26 < mchua> and now the people in charge of each phase... 18:27 < mchua> mizmo is pretty clearly on design, ricky I think is on infrastructure (and convert to html/css? or is that mizmo, or someone else?) 18:27 * hiemanshu promised to work on HTML/CSS conversion 18:27 < mchua> ok, hiemanshu for convert to html/css, in which case then we should switch to your sep 20 deadline :) 18:27 < hiemanshu> mchua, yup 18:27 < mchua> which gives mizmo 3 weeks to get from "feedback stopped!" to "here is final design" 18:28 * hiemanshu hopes other will be helping to 18:28 < mchua> if that sounds sane, mizmo 18:28 * ricky appreciates help on the HTML/CSS part - I haven't touched CSS this seriously for a looong while 18:28 < hiemanshu> mchua, as i said i allowed an extra week for it to slip 18:28 < hiemanshu> ricky, i ll be working with you :) 18:28 < mchua> hiemanshu: okeydokey. 18:28 < hiemanshu> 19+19 = 1919 :) 18:28 < mizmo> mchua: very sane 18:29 < mizmo> i can help with css too if u guys need it 18:29 < mchua> last question, then: who's accountable for this next week of gathering feedback && metrics && usability testing (though the last one probably can't happen in a week)? 18:29 < mizmo> im accountable i would say 18:29 < mizmo> i did the blog post and am engaging the advisory board list 18:29 < mchua> okeydokey. 18:29 < mchua> yup! 18:29 < hiemanshu> mchua, you here to help with HTML/CSS too? 18:30 < mchua> hiemanshu: can't promise anything, I may be utterly hosed with mktg stuff then, but if I'm on IRC I'm pingable. 18:30 * hiemanshu guesses onekopaka_away, sijis and nb would help too 18:31 < hiemanshu> mchua, the more people we have the faster we can work it out, and solve the bugs that can pop out 18:31 * mchua used to work as a web designer in college, making stuff for school's IT dept, so is hopefully not too miserably rusty on that front. 18:31 < hiemanshu> so extra help + head is appreciated 18:31 < mchua> hiemanshu: yeah, put me down as a "ping me when the time comes, and I'll help if I can," since I'm not sure how much I can absolutely commit right now. 18:31 < mchua> I hope I'll be able to help at least some. 18:31 < hiemanshu> mchua, more than the help the extra head helps 18:32 < mchua> y'all are doing the conversions smack in the middle of my busiest travel month this year though. 18:32 < hiemanshu> (like on blogs) 18:32 * mchua nods 18:32 < ricky> Haha 18:32 < mchua> I can certainly be an extra head. 18:33 < mchua> Hookeydokey. And this is the schedule for *both* get and spins, or just for one (and we need a separate one for the other)? 18:33 * mchua apologizes for dragging everyone through this schedule-creation process - I know it's painful, but we're almost through it. 18:33 < ricky> I think it's for both 18:34 < ricky> So the design and HTML/CSS phases cover both (although it's possible that the dates might be shifted a bit for get vs. spins) 18:34 < hiemanshu> ricky, which comes first? 18:34 < ricky> But as long as we have enough mockups to keep us busy throughout the HTML/CSS phase, it's all good :-) 18:34 < ricky> Probably spins.fp.o 18:35 < mchua> ricky: do we want to set staggered (maybe a week?) deadlines for feedback and design mockups of spins and get 18:35 < mchua> so that people can adjust their feedback on get based on the decisions made about spins? 18:35 < mchua> mizmo: ^^ actually, that's probably a question for you 18:36 < mizmo> im not following, are spins being scheduled separately than get.fpo? 18:37 < ricky> Er, maybe I complicated things needlessly with the staggering comment. 18:38 < mchua> mizmo: my impression was that the design of get will be (partially) determined by the design of spins 18:38 < mchua> mizmo: (or rather, that spins is a dependency of get) 18:39 < mchua> mizmo: so I was wondering if it might make sense to build in a week of "spins is set, let's adjust get to make sure we match that" feedback time and design time 18:39 * mchua makes up schedule to show folks what that would look like 18:39 < mizmo> mchua: ah okay 18:39 < mizmo> mchua: hmm 18:40 < mizmo> mchua: that makes sense 18:40 * hiemanshu just voted on whenisgood 18:41 * mchua pastebins, since this is a bit long 18:41 < mchua> http://fpaste.org/1Zmi/ 18:41 -!- morpheuss is now known as imran 18:41 < mchua> mizmo, ricky, hiemanshu: like that - if that'd work for your schedule, basically hiemanshu would have a week where all we have to convert is the spins designs, and the get would hit a week later 18:42 -!- imran is now known as morpheuss 18:42 < hiemanshu> mchua, perfect 18:42 < ricky> Looks good to me, thanks for making it 18:43 * mizmo takes a look 18:43 < mizmo> mchua: that looks great except i probably wont be able to do usability testing, but maybe 18:43 < mizmo> if all the equipment arrives before i leavae for the summit maybe i can lug the usability lab with me :) 18:44 * hiemanshu can find people to test 18:44 < mchua> mizmo: OoooOOOooooo! 18:44 < mizmo> im working the summit, so i can totally be like 18:44 < mizmo> 'hmm want your conference badge? okay. i'll give it to ya. if you usability test this page first!' 18:44 < ricky> Hehe 18:44 < mchua> mizmo: I'm a willing usability testing lackey in Boston, in case the stuff arrives after you leave + someone can teach me how to use it. 18:44 < hiemanshu> :D 18:44 < mizmo> mchua: kk 18:45 < mchua> mizmo: "I Usability Tested The Fedora Website!" badge-stickers! 18:45 * mchua kidding 18:45 < mchua> (mostly) 18:45 < hiemanshu> " I helped mizmo finish work on schedule" badges would be better :D 18:46 < mizmo> lol 18:46 * mchua wants "I saved mchua's ass" stickers 18:46 < mchua> (we'd need thousands) 18:46 < mchua> Anyhow, I'm satisfied with schedule/milestones/etc on this, I can haz make project page 18:46 * mchua is done 18:46 < hiemanshu> ricky, i think we are done 18:47 < ricky> OK then, thanks a lot 18:47 < ricky> #endmeeting 18:47 -!- zodbot changed the topic of #fedora-websites to: The Fedora Websites team maintains the official Fedora Project websites (http://fedoraproject.org/) | Want to help us? Contact the respective leaders listed here : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites#Projects | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites 18:47 < zodbot> Meeting ended Fri Aug 21 18:47:10 2009 UTC. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot . 18:47 < zodbot> Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-websites/2009-08-21/fedora-websites… 18:47 < zodbot> Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-websites/2009-08-21/fedora-websites… 18:47 < ricky> *phew* 18:47 < zodbot> Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-websites/2009-08-21/fedora-websites… 18:47 < hiemanshu> This one was long 18:47 < mchua> ricky, poelcat, stickster: dunno if any of you want to be the ones hollering "are we on schedule?" for this each week, or if I ought to put this on my calendar...

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bug report in Fedora 11
by Georgina Everingham 20 Aug '09

20 Aug '09

Hi! Please find attached a bug report which occurs each time I boot up Fedora 11. My copy of Fedora 11 was obtained via Linux Format Magazine September 2009. Georgina Everingham

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