On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 09:56:17AM +1000, Ryan Lerch wrote: > On 06/13/2015 04:36 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > >In the interest of building up the community of people who want to > >help manage the editing and publication of stories, here are a list of > >currently empowered accounts: > > > >Admins: > > chrisroberts, cydrobolt, duffy, jreznik, jzb, mattdm, Mitzie, > > pfrields, randomuser, robyduck, rsuehle, ryanlerch, sgallagh > > > >Editors: > > dustymabe, kushal, roshi > > > >I'm not listing the other roles such as contributors and authors here, > >but there are a lot of them, which is good and as expected. > > > >Thanks to the inclusion of the Edit Flow plugin, we can coordinate > >work on a schedule, and with multiple contributors at the > >editorial/publishing level. There's even a calendar on the back end > >so we can place stories on a timeline and know what our output will > >look like over time. > > > >I was hoping that a few of the folks above would be interested in > >meeting up on IRC to start getting that cycle into motion regularly. > >I could envision doing that, say, for 15-30 minutes once a week to > >check that stories are on track to publish for their given date. > > > >This would be separate and distinct from the idea pitching, which can > >happen on IRC or on this list. For that matter they can go straight > >into the list of posts with "Pitch" status on the Magazine itself. > > > >If you guys like this idea, I could respond with some ideas for how we > >can drive things straight from the Magazine's built in calendar. This > >would let us all collaborate and have accountability for getting the > >stories out (no more moldy queues). > > > Also here is the draft of how these account types might work too: > > http://fedoramagazine.org/publishing-workflow/ > > Personally, IMHO, we should have many more editors than Admins, as the only > things Admins can do rather than editors is to actually edit the wordpress > instance (update CSS, plugins, etc) -- so restricting access here is > probably a good idea. Agreed. We also want to have some sort of editorial meeting so all the editors can agree on the written style we want for posts. I don't mean the microscopic level of enforcing specific style manuals, but rather overall tone. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List info or to change your subscription: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
