Commit Digest and Dot

Vladislav Blanton vblanton at gmail.com
Tue Mar 29 20:41:35 CEST 2011


I am supportive of Friday or Sunday as it used to be.

What do others think? When should we have the Digest go up on the dot each
week?

V

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Stuart Jarvis <stuart.jarvis at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey Vlad,
>
> (by the way, I think we're all on the digest list so no need to cc me)
>
> On Wednesday 23 March 2011 17:03:53 Vladislav Blanton wrote:
> > Well, it seems to me that wednesday would be a good day to have it go
> live
> > on the Dot each week. We currently aim to have the digest ready by
> tuesday
> > evening (wed morning at the latest).
>
> Given turnaround times on the Dot we'd probably need a bit more of a
> margin.
> It used to be that the Danny would publish the digest a week later (i.e. on
> the Sunday after the date the digest referred to. But if you guys are
> getting
> these done mostly by Tuesday we can surely go a bit earlier.
>
> How about Friday as a candidate? Article submitted/uploaded by Wednesday,
> then
> a full day to give someone time to check it before publishing on Friday?
>
> > As for being on the dot editors list, I'd be happy to give it a try. Just
> > fill me in on the basics and I should be able to go from there!
>
> Take a look at:
> http://community.kde.org/Promo/Dot
>
> And particularly:
> http://community.kde.org/Promo/Dot/Drupal
>
> You won't need much of the information in that as the Commit Digest
> articles
> are pretty simple and you're basically formatting them great already. We're
> mostly just copying and pasting what you send us into a form in Drupal :-)
>
> I'll try start off the process of getting you set up as a dot editor and
> email
> you directly.
>
> Cheers,
> Stu
>
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Danny Allen <danny at commit-
> digest.org>wrote:
> > > I like all your suggestions Stu, lets make it happen! :)
> > >
> > > Danny
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Stuart Jarvis" <stuart.jarvis at gmail.com>
> > > To: digest at kde.org
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 23 March, 2011 3:58:48 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Quick update
> > >
> > > On Wednesday 23 March 2011 15:41:04 Danny Allen wrote:
> > > > Good work team!
> > > >
> > > > @Stuart: any way to prevent this happening in the future? (are there
> > >
> > > other
> > >
> > > > people who are also managing stories on the Dot at the moment too>)
> > >
> > > Yes, however in this case no one else picked it up to publish - there
> > > were some other things and I was away for some days
> > >
> > > > It'd
> > > > be nice now that we're running on a good, up-to-date schedule to not
> > > > have the chain break at the last step!
> > >
> > > It needs to be monitored and chased up by someone on the dot list -
> > > reminding
> > > for reviews and then for publication (or hitting publish button once
> > > there is
> > > a review).
> > >
> > > You can do this if you have time, otherwise how about we get Vlad on
> the
> > > dot
> > > editors list? If you're happy Vlad (and the other dot editors are
> happy)
> > > then
> > > we could give you access to upload the articles directly - it would be
> > > easy,
> > > I'm mostly just copy/pasting your emails into a form - and then publish
> > > once
> > > someone else has given it a review.
> > >
> > > We could also pick a day for Digests (years ago it was always Sunday)
> so
> > > there
> > > is a space reserved always and the articles do not have to wait long
> for
> > > publication even when the Dot gets busy.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Stu
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