Hi Gregory,
Thanks again for responding.
Personally, I'd like to see a little more explanation about what the various
commands ("insmod ext2", "--hint='hd0,msdos1'", etc.) are doing and how they
might need to be changed to match the reader's environment ("Is your boot
partition formatted with a FAT filesystem on a GPT partition table? If so, ..."
etc.).
Well, there you sort of strike a point, to me, that indicates the
article breadth goes beyond what normally fits in one Web Magazine
article, in other words I think this should be a two part article. That
would allow for proper explanation of each of the commands. My concern
with the subject matter is it's potential to wreak havoc if the commands
don't suit the environment.
I think there might be a small technical issue that you should double-check with
the author about. In the "Add a new menu entry to GRUB" section, a sample grub
menuentry is provided and the following paragraph states, "Please change the
values (UUID, ...". But there is no example UUID or a placeholder for where one
should go as was done with <IP>, <Gateway>, etc.
That was why I had the link at the end to point to the admin guide page
for F29 for Grub2, where there are examples of how that command needs to
be, but I will add the requisite label to make it like the others.
Some sort of troubleshooting section at the end "would be nice" as well.
That is a good idea, but I was getting concerned over the length. It is
sort of getting to the point where it could be split over two articles,
the material could allow for it certainly. I'll see what I can squeeze
in to make it fit. Thank you for the suggestions, they help fine tune
the article for sure.
Steve
I think there might be a small technical issue that you should double-check with
the author about. In the "Add a new menu entry to GRUB" section, a sample grub
menuentry is provided and the following paragraph states, "Please change the
values (UUID, ...". But there is no example UUID or a placeholder for where one
should go as was done with <IP>, <Gateway>, etc.
Personally, I'd like to see a little more explanation about what the various
commands ("insmod ext2", "--hint='hd0,msdos1'", etc.) are doing and how they
might need to be changed to match the reader's environment ("Is your boot
partition formatted with a FAT filesystem on a GPT partition table? If so, ..."
etc.).
Some sort of troubleshooting section at the end "would be nice" as well. In
particular, a short section showing how you might be able to recover from a
system that boots into a grub shell. For example, something like:
If your configuration fails and you get a "grub>" shell prompt, you can try to
load your backup configuration with the following commands:
grub> ls
(hd0), (hd0,gpt1), (hd0,gpt2)
grub> ls (hd0,gpt1)/
efi/ grub2/ initramfs.img vmlinuz
grub> ls (hd0,gpt1)/grub2
device.map grub.cfg grub.cfg.bak
grub> configfile (hd0,gpt1)/grub2/grub.cfg.bak
Again, this is just my personal opinion about how the article could be improved.
A countervailing view might be that giving the reader too much information might
scare them away.
Anyway, just some ideas, feel free to take it or leave it,
gb
On Thu, 2019-03-07 at 12:28 -0500, Steven Snow wrote:
Hello Editorial Board,
Could someone take a look at the following to give a once over for
things I may have missed? This is regarding the article that was
supposed to publish Monday. the post is here
https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=25356&preview=true&preview_id=25356 ,
hopefully the preview works for you.
Thank you and regards,
Steve
On 06/03/19 05:00 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2019-03-06/magazine.2019-03-06-21.00.html
Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2019-03-06/magazine.2019-03-06-21.00.txt
Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2019-03-06/magazine.2019-03-06-21.00.log.html
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#fedora-meeting: Magazine editorial board
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Meeting started by stickster at 21:00:08 UTC. The full logs are
available at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2019-03-06/magazine.2019-03-06-21.00.log.html
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* Roll call (stickster, 21:00:14)
* Last week's stats (stickster, 21:04:49)
* Week of February 25: 67.4K pageviews, slighly up from week before
and moderate performance overall (stickster, 21:05:30)
* Month of February 2019: 272.6K pageviews, very slightly up YoY (only
about 1K or 0.4%) (stickster, 21:06:33)
* ACTION: jakfrost do final copy edit on GRUB article with
gregbartholomew and schedule for Friday (stickster, 21:14:43)
* Drafts to review (stickster, 21:15:43)
* LINK:
https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post
(stickster, 21:15:49)
* --- C# part 2 --- (stickster, 21:15:56)
* LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=25106&preview=true (stickster,
21:16:01)
* ACTION: stickster see if C# author will beef up with more actionable
content (stickster, 21:26:40)
* stickster just figured out the problem with the images -- you need
to specify in the right-side settings that the image links --> media
file so the full size comes up when someone clicks the thumbnail in
the article (stickster, 21:37:16)
* stickster fixed the problems in the JDK article (stickster,
21:37:32)
* Publishing schedule (stickster, 21:45:34)
* We're running dry, need ideas + writers to do them! (stickster,
21:45:54)
* LINK:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/4ALUPGMXBH5N56TD4LQQAXZVOEKGTP5Y/
(cverna, 21:49:34)
* AGREED: Fri Mar 8, install from GRUB (jakfrost) -- Mon Mar 11,
discussion.fp.o (ryanlerch) -- Wed Mar 13, libravatar (cverna) --
Fri Mar 15, TBA (stickster) (stickster, 21:56:11)
* All other business / Open floor (stickster, 21:56:19)
* ACTION: ryanlerch do discussion.fp.o article for Monday publication
(stickster, 21:57:57)
* ACTION: cverna do libravatar article for Wednesday publication
(stickster, 21:58:08)
Meeting ended at 21:59:17 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* jakfrost do final copy edit on GRUB article with gregbartholomew and
schedule for Friday
* stickster see if C# author will beef up with more actionable content
* ryanlerch do discussion.fp.o article for Monday publication
* cverna do libravatar article for Wednesday publication
Action Items, by person
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* cverna
* cverna do libravatar article for Wednesday publication
* gregbartholomew
* jakfrost do final copy edit on GRUB article with gregbartholomew and
schedule for Friday
* jakfrost
* jakfrost do final copy edit on GRUB article with gregbartholomew and
schedule for Friday
* ryanlerch
* ryanlerch do discussion.fp.o article for Monday publication
* stickster
* stickster see if C# author will beef up with more actionable content
* **UNASSIGNED**
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