[magazine] Magazine editorial board recap 2016-Nov-10
by Paul W. Frields
Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-11-10/magazine.2016...
Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-11-10/magazine.2016...
Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-11-10/magazine.2016...
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#fedora-meeting: Magazine editorial board
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Meeting started by stickster at 22:00:24 UTC. The full logs are
available at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-11-10/magazine.2016...
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Meeting summary
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* Roll call (stickster, 22:00:27)
* Last week in review (stickster, 22:01:55)
* Week of Oct 31 -- 44.3K, big dropoff from previous week, almost 1/3
down (stickster, 22:02:39)
* Special article information (stickster, 22:05:38)
* This includes (1) the F25 GA release announcement; (2) the What's
new in Workstation article; and (3) Upgrading F24 -> F25
(stickster, 22:06:30)
* stickster made an empty shell/template for #1, and wrote up #2 (in
Scheduled now) (stickster, 22:06:57)
* ACTION: jflory7 Begin draft of "Upgrading F24 => F25", get feedback
from QA teams / other groups to verify accuracy, no later than Nov.
18 (jflory7, 22:07:37)
* GA slipped today, so it's now Tue 2016-Nov-22 (stickster, 22:07:38)
* ACTION: stickster follow up with bkp/Marketing team beyond email to
list (stickster, 22:11:11)
* Pending review (stickster, 22:12:51)
* LINK:
https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=pending&post_typ...
(stickster, 22:13:05)
* --- Protect privacy in Firefox --- (stickster, 22:13:16)
* LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=14606&preview=1&_ppp=2c94ee9ca9
(stickster, 22:13:31)
* ACTION: stickster send email to list/author asking for screenshot
revisions, and set to draft (stickster, 22:16:53)
* --- Intro to Hubs --- (stickster, 22:17:06)
* LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=14310&preview=1&_ppp=e40b43df36
(stickster, 22:17:10)
* ACTION: stickster do featured image for Intro to Hubs article
(stickster, 22:22:57)
* pre-Drafts insert (stickster, 22:24:24)
* ACTION: ryanlerch to do Inkscape article for publication tomorrow
(stickster, 22:24:46)
* Drafts (stickster, 22:25:03)
* LINK:
https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=...
(stickster, 22:25:12)
* --- How Fedora Infra is attacking spam --- (stickster, 22:25:38)
* --- qcow2 Rawhide images --- (stickster, 22:32:37)
* LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=15006&preview=1&_ppp=73ab178e66
(stickster, 22:32:42)
* ACTION: stickster to finish editing this weekend for Monday
publication (stickster, 22:33:09)
* --- Minecraft in Fedora! --- (stickster, 22:34:01)
* LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=15131&preview=1&_ppp=070054a02f
(stickster, 22:34:13)
* ACTION: jflory7 Create, edit, and schedule the "Minecraft in Fedora"
article for Wednesday, Nov. 16 (jflory7, 22:35:41)
* --- Network namespace --- (stickster, 22:36:19)
* LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=14995&preview=1&_ppp=0a13ca97fb
(stickster, 22:36:32)
* ACTION: stickster give review on list to get some revision, but this
stays active (stickster, 22:44:19)
* --- C99 features --- (stickster, 22:44:48)
* LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=14646&preview=1&_ppp=2edea0e0cf
(stickster, 22:44:58)
* ACTION: stickster email author to remind about edits (stickster,
22:47:07)
* ACTION: jflory7 to wield axe next meeting if needed (go/no-go for
this article) (stickster, 22:47:25)
* --- Starting with Python --- (stickster, 22:51:15)
* LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=14577&preview=1&_ppp=b1fe9ff5a5
(stickster, 22:51:21)
* ACTION: jflory7 stickster ping x3mboy about this article next time
we catch up in IRC channel (stickster, 22:55:22)
* Publishing schedule for next week (stickster, 22:55:51)
* Friday Nov-11: Inkscape by ryanlerch (stickster, 22:56:06)
* Mon Nov-14: qcow2 Rawhide, pfrields finishing edits (stickster,
22:59:37)
* Wed Nov-16: installing Minecraft, jflory doing this (stickster,
22:59:47)
* TENTATIVE: Fri Nov-18: Intro to hubs, pfrields will edit
(stickster, 23:03:54)
Meeting ended at 23:04:56 UTC.
Action Items
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* jflory7 Begin draft of "Upgrading F24 => F25", get feedback from QA
teams / other groups to verify accuracy, no later than Nov. 18
* stickster follow up with bkp/Marketing team beyond email to list
* stickster send email to list/author asking for screenshot revisions,
and set to draft
* stickster do featured image for Intro to Hubs article
* ryanlerch to do Inkscape article for publication tomorrow
* stickster to finish editing this weekend for Monday publication
* jflory7 Create, edit, and schedule the "Minecraft in Fedora" article
for Wednesday, Nov. 16
* stickster give review on list to get some revision, but this stays
active
* stickster email author to remind about edits
* jflory7 to wield axe next meeting if needed (go/no-go for this
article)
* jflory7 stickster ping x3mboy about this article next time we catch up
in IRC channel
Action Items, by person
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* jflory7
* jflory7 Begin draft of "Upgrading F24 => F25", get feedback from QA
teams / other groups to verify accuracy, no later than Nov. 18
* jflory7 Create, edit, and schedule the "Minecraft in Fedora" article
for Wednesday, Nov. 16
* jflory7 to wield axe next meeting if needed (go/no-go for this
article)
* jflory7 stickster ping x3mboy about this article next time we catch
up in IRC channel
* ryanlerch
* ryanlerch to do Inkscape article for publication tomorrow
* stickster
* stickster follow up with bkp/Marketing team beyond email to list
* stickster send email to list/author asking for screenshot revisions,
and set to draft
* stickster do featured image for Intro to Hubs article
* stickster to finish editing this weekend for Monday publication
* stickster give review on list to get some revision, but this stays
active
* stickster email author to remind about edits
* jflory7 stickster ping x3mboy about this article next time we catch
up in IRC channel
* x3mboy
* jflory7 stickster ping x3mboy about this article next time we catch
up in IRC channel
* **UNASSIGNED**
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* jflory7 (88)
* puiterwijk (26)
* ryanlerch (21)
* zodbot (12)
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7 years, 6 months
[magazine] Two short articles ready
by Paul W. Frields
I put together two short articles:
* Configuring software repos
* Move status icons to the GNOME top bar
The first one is ready to go. I've scheduled it for Tuesday 0800 UTC
since I was worried about having some material for the week.
The second one needs a featured image. I had a hard time coming up
with an elegant concept and I thought maybe someone else could give it
a try.
My hope is that someone has another article ready to go in the
meantime?
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7 years, 6 months
[magazine] Re: Python 3.6 beta release in F26 Rawhide?
by Justin W. Flory
On 11/06/2016 09:56 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 4 November 2016 at 04:44, Justin W. Flory <jflory7(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Whoops, missed this reply! Even if the specific minor version of 3.6 is to
>> be determined, if there's new major features to highlight in Python 3.6, we
>> could get started with writing the article draft and write how to get
>> started using it. Once it's actually available, we can double-check for
>> accuracy and push it out quickly after it's available. :)
>>
>> Would there be anyone who might be interested in helping lead on this? It
>> shouldn't have to be too extravagant, but a short overview and introduction
>> about the latest and greatest in Python on Fedora would be amazing.
>
> Some initial highlights from
> https://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.6.html for folks that can just
> roll forward to the new release:
>
> - compile time processing of format strings with the new f-string
> literals: print(f"There were {len(docs)} found. First title:
> {docs[0].title}". These have the dual benefit of being both faster
> than runtime formatting (since the string gets broken up into text
> segments and field expressions at compile time, so there's zero
> runtime string parsing overhead), while also being easier to read
> (since you don't need to mentally map expressions to their
> corresponding fields - they're right there in the string). Especially
> helpful for scripting use cases.
> - keyword arguments now preserve their order, so
> "collections.OrderedDict(first=1, second=2, third=2)" finally works
> the way you would expect it to work (previously the apparent key order
> in the source code would be lost in the process of calling the
> constructor)
> - the new secrets module provides handy helpers for secure token
> generation in various formats (e.g. bytes, hex strings, base64
> strings) with a reasonable default amount of entropy
> - underscores in numeric literals mean you can now break up magic
> constants to make them easier to read (e.g. 10_000_000.0, 0xCAFE_F00D,
> 0b_0011_1111_0100_1110)
> - many more standard library APIs, including the builtin open(), now
> support pathlib.Path and pathlib.PurePath objects through the new
> os.fspath() protocol. This change also means many third party
> libraries will also indirectly gain support for these protocols (since
> they implicitly delegate the task of opening a path to a standard
> library API
> - OpenSSL 1.1.0 is supported, along with additional hashing (BLAKE2,
> SHA-3, SHAKE) and key derivation (scrypt) algorithms
>
> From a security perspective, os.urandom() now also provides a
> guarantee that it will either block or return a result suitable for
> cryptographic use - this means that code that needs to run when the
> system entropy pool hasn't been initialised yet should either switch
> to using the random module (if it doesn't need cryptographic grade
> randomness) or the new os.getrandom() API (in order to use the
> non-blocking variant of the syscall).
>
> For folks using the new native async/await syntax for coroutine based
> service development, that syntax has been extended with provisional
> support for asynchronous comprehensions, generator definitions, and
> generation functions, allowing asynchronous code access to many more
> of the niceties developers are accustomed to when working with purely
> synchronous code.
>
> For folks using mypy or one of the other type inference engines for
> Python, provisional support has been added for declarative variable
> annotations that allow inference engines to complain when values bound
> to the variable don't abide by the expected constraint (the
> interpreter itself pays no attention to these annotations at runtime,
> just as it doesn't check function annotations)
>
> For folks writing internationalised applications, the Unicode database
> has been updated to 9.0.0
>
> For folks debugging more complex applications, the new PYTHONMALLOC
> environment variable lets you either switch the runtime's memory
> allocator into debug mode ("PYTHONMALLOC=debug") or bypass it entirely
> ("PYTHONMALLOC=malloc"). Details in
> https://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.6.html#pythonmalloc-environment-va...
>
> Also related to application debugging, the "-X tracemalloc" option now
> provides a resource allocation traceback when printing ResourceWarning
> for resources that are cleaned up non-deterministically.
>
> There have also been a range of performance improvement made to
> CPython, aided significantly by Victor Stinner's work in putting
> together a new benchmarking utility ("perf") and a new benchmark suite
> for Python interpreters ("performance":
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/performance ). (He doesn't have 3.5 vs
> 3.6 performance data yet, but hopefully that will be available on
> speed.python.org by the time of the actual 3.6 release in December)
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
Thanks for all of this info, Nick! I think we could get this down into a
nice and tidy Magazine article. Would you be able to try creating a
draft in the Magazine and we can work through the rest of the steps from
there? This would be an awesome article to have!
https://fedoramagazine.org/writing-an-article-for-the-fedora-magazine/
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
7 years, 6 months
[magazine] Re: [marketing] Re: [Marketing] Feedback needed on Fedora 25 announcements
by Justin W. Flory
On 11/07/2016 01:43 PM, Brian Proffitt wrote:
> Based on Zbigniew's feedback, and working with Matt Miller's
> announcement from the Red Hat blog, I have put together a new draft for
> review. Please review at your earliest convenience[1]
>
> Peace,
> Brian
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F25_general_release_announcement
>
Hey Brian, I just had a chance to review. Overall, this looks awesome
and it's exciting to see the "story" component to the release
announcement covered ahead of time. I'm also CCing the Magazine list as
a reference for the F25 Beta announcement on the Magazine.
For the snippet about Wayland, maybe it would also be good to mention
some of the security benefits of it over X11? Even though I anticipate
there to be kickback regardless, I think the security benefits over X11
might be a good point to highlight too along with the usability
enhancements. I'm not super informed on what the specific security
enhancements are other than separation/contained windows, but this
shouldn't be too hard to find.
Other than that, this all looks good to me. The Magazine edition should
definitely make use of linking to some of the bigger things mentioned in
the wiki article, like something about Project Atomic.
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl <mailto:zbyszek@in.waw.pl>> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 01:20:52PM -0400, Brian Proffitt wrote:
> > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F25_general_release_announcement
> <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F25_general_release_announcement>
> > [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F25_general_press_release
> <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F25_general_press_release>
>
> "Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora site:"
> → "Download the release from ..."
>
> This text is very low level for a "general release announcement". This
> long list of detailed features is certainly informative, but it's not
> something that'd make a casualr use think "Oh, new, shiny! I need to
> try this out". At least the truly new stuff should be put first:
> - Rust
> - FMW
> - Gnome 3.22 and Wayland by default
> I think that those two deserve more than a terse note
> - Flatpak support
> - Python 3.4, 3.3, 2.6
>
> I'm sure that there's more stuff. What about the switchable graphics
> support?
>
> systemd 231 added initial support for the unified cgroup hierarchy,
> a.k.a. cgroups2. This is only enabled by a kernel command-line switch
> (systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1). It's quite low-level, but it
> exposes an important kernel development, so it might be worth
> mentioning.
>
> Zbyszek
>
>
>
>
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7 years, 6 months
[magazine] Editorial board meeting recap 2016-Nov-03
by Paul W. Frields
No one else showed so I just ran through some info and some hopeful
#action for a few people:
Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-11-03/magazine.2016...
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#fedora-meeting: Magazine editorial board
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Meeting started by stickster at 21:00:00 UTC. The full logs are
available at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-11-03/magazine.2016...
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Meeting summary
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* Roll call (stickster, 21:00:03)
* Last week update (stickster, 21:04:05)
* See list email... it was a fantastic week last week, this week...
maybe not so much :-( (stickster, 21:04:19)
* General Point: If you can't deliver an article or task on time,
that's OK! But please let folks know so we can rearrange and fill
gaps. (stickster, 21:05:17)
* Reset for this week (stickster, 21:08:14)
* ACTION: ryanlerch Finish one Inkscape article for tomorrow
(stickster, 21:09:32)
* ACTION: stickster Complete two short howto articles for use next
week, along with featured images (stickster, 21:09:47)
* jflory7 advises that Python SIG is working on an article to explain
features in Python 3.6. (stickster, 21:11:08)
* cpacheco is going to finish her article on Rawhide qcow2 images.
stickster edited the content to date and will help polish the last
bit and do an image. (stickster, 21:11:54)
* jflory7 will do the usual F25 upgrading article in time for release
(stickster, 21:12:14)
* holding the door open for 15 min in case someone comes by for the
rest of the meeting :-) (stickster, 21:12:44)
Meeting ended at 21:46:59 UTC.
Action Items
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* ryanlerch Finish one Inkscape article for tomorrow
* stickster Complete two short howto articles for use next week, along
with featured images
Action Items, by person
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* stickster
* stickster Complete two short howto articles for use next week, along
with featured images
* **UNASSIGNED**
* ryanlerch Finish one Inkscape article for tomorrow
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7 years, 6 months
[magazine] Re: Python 3.6 beta release in F26 Rawhide?
by Justin W. Flory
On 11/01/2016 11:37 AM, Charalampos Stratakis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It would be certainly interesting to write an article about it.
>
> Ideally it remains to be seen which version of python 3.6 is going to be deployed in rawhide and after deploying it, publish the article so people can do some early testing.
>
> Regards,
>
> Charalampos Stratakis
> Associate Software Engineer
> Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat
>
Whoops, missed this reply! Even if the specific minor version of 3.6 is
to be determined, if there's new major features to highlight in Python
3.6, we could get started with writing the article draft and write how
to get started using it. Once it's actually available, we can
double-check for accuracy and push it out quickly after it's available. :)
Would there be anyone who might be interested in helping lead on this?
It shouldn't have to be too extravagant, but a short overview and
introduction about the latest and greatest in Python on Fedora would be
amazing.
I'm also CCing the Magazine list on this reply to help keep them in on
the loop of things too.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Justin W. Flory" <jflory7(a)gmail.com>
> To: python-devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2016 12:53:49 AM
> Subject: Re: Python 3.6 beta release in F26 Rawhide?
>
> On 10/17/2016 10:57 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> On 18 October 2016 at 00:49, Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>> The current URL should be https://beaker.qa.fedoraproject.org/ if that is the one you have in mind.
>>
>> Indeed it is, thank you!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nick.
>>
>
> Hi everyone, I'm observing and chiming in late to this discussion. My
> understanding from reading this thread is that it's intended to package
> 3.6 for Rawhide and eventually having it made as a Change in F26.
>
> If 3.6 is going to be hitting Rawhide, would anyone be interested in
> writing an announcement / tips for testing on the Fedora Magazine? I
> think this would be a highly-interesting article to our readers to know
> that 3.6 is in Rawhide, and there may be some people who are willing to
> jump in and help test if they knew the opportunity was there.
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
7 years, 6 months