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PaulW2Ueditorial review done09:59
josepleia2: sorry, was out. sure, will do!16:27
pleia2jose: thanks, it's over in the wiki16:30
joseyep, taking a look now16:30
josepleia2: eh... nope. broken. the link takes me to an intel cpu microdecode support post16:33
joselet's fix that...16:34
pleia2oops, the real link is: http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2015/03/linux-tapas-2015-leon-sabado-21-marzo.html16:34
joseyeah, got it :)16:37
josefirefox decided to delete all my cookies and I had to re-login to the wiki, painful16:37
pleia2oof16:38
josebut it looks good as is16:43
pleia2great16:44
PaulW2UDidn't spot the bad link, saw "Article in Spanish" and moved on :(16:59
* pleia2 blames her paste buffer17:00
pleia2PaulW2U: I'm going to do a last over on editorial, let me know when you're around to release18:27
wxlhey guys, if you see any news for xtra-pc, which seems to be a lubuntu (or at least a lxde) ripoff, please don't publish it18:27
pleia2I'm around for the next hour, then doing some errand with the husband (we're both working from home today, oy)18:27
wxli'm quite sure this is not legitimate18:28
pleia2wxl: good to know!18:28
wxlit's on lifehacker and linux foundation among other places18:28
wxlbut they don't offer copyright notices for the logos they use18:28
wxltheir licensing is a bit funky18:28
wxlthey don't even acknowledge that they're a linux distro18:28
pleia2weird18:29
wxldid you get a download, too, Kamilion /18:31
wxloops wrong channel18:31
PaulW2Upleia2: ready when you are18:38
pleia2PaulW2U: great, finishing my final review now, while you're waiting might want to grab the publishing scripts: bzr branch lp:uwn18:41
PaulW2Ugood job I have bzr installed, done ;)18:43
pleia2we'll need to have you install some dependencies too with perl+python, which is the real annoying part18:45
pleia2off the top of my head, apt-get install libwww-perl libtext-unidecode-perl18:48
PaulW2Udone18:50
pleia2https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/EditingPolicies18:52
pleia2so, we're starting with #1118:52
PaulW2Uyep, having two screens is handy right now ;)18:52
pleia2you're in the driver's seat now :) edit the wiki to add the bullet-points18:53
pleia2this part is pretty at-editor's-descretion, we want a good sampling of articles for the newsletter, but not so many that it makes later in the process harder (manual checking of all fridge links, since fridge script is imperfect with non-standard characters)18:53
pleia2so I'll typically include headers for all sections, unless I'm including an article from that section18:54
PaulW2UI think I see what's needed...18:57
pleia2just let me know when you're ready for the next step (I'm working, but pingable)19:01
pleia2I usually keep two copies of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue408 open, one that I am editing and one that I'm copying articles from the Table of Contents of19:02
PaulW2Uyou tell me now :)19:02
pleia2last bullet-point needs to be: * And much more! (exactly that, our fridge script expects it)19:02
pleia2haha, sorry :)19:02
PaulW2Ugot 12 items listed, enough?19:03
pleia2looks like I usually have 20 or so19:04
pleia2want to save so I can make a few suggestions?19:05
PaulW2Usaved19:06
pleia2so, I typically make them go in order, and include all the planet ones (people like seeing their names in to ToC)19:07
pleia2also want to include these toward the bottom:19:08
pleia2Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings19:08
pleia2Monthly Team Reports: February 201519:08
pleia2Upcoming Meetings and Events19:08
PaulW2Uhow's that? might need re-ordering19:10
PaulW2Uwasn't expecting this part. always wondered how it was created ;)19:11
pleia2yeah, it does need reordering19:11
pleia2let me toss it in an etherpad real quick19:11
pleia2http://pad.ubuntu.com/Iot9Cmzoyz19:12
pleia2ok, that's what I'd probably go with ^^19:14
PaulW2Ucopied over19:15
pleia2ok, now #12 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/EditingPolicies19:17
pleia2(typically I do this in the same step)19:17
pleia2so we're removing all the comments, and the '''WORK IN PROGRESS''' bit19:17
pleia2once I remove all the ## comments at the top of the file, I search the document in my browser for ## to make sure there aren't any others the snuck in (sometimes editors would add comments that I missed)19:18
PaulW2Uyes, searched for ##, nothing found19:19
pleia2one last fix up in the list: UbuTab needs to be Ubu``Tab19:19
PaulW2Udone19:21
pleia2now, scripts!19:21
pleia2so, you branched the uwn repo, now open a terminal and cd uwn/19:21
PaulW2Uok19:22
pleia2there is a publish-uwn.pl script in there that we use for generating all the things19:22
PaulW2Uok19:22
pleia2so if you have all dependencies installed (we'll find out) you should just be able to: ./publish-uwn.pl 40819:23
pleia2have http://paste.ubuntu.com/ handy, I expect errors ;)19:23
PaulW2U404 not found at line 2219:23
pleia2any indication as to which script?19:24
pleia2this is a wrapper for a bunch ofthem19:24
PaulW2Usorry, publish-uwn.pl19:24
pleia2I mean, publish-uwn.pl runs a bunch of scripts, so "line 22" could mean any of them19:24
pleia2is the only output you get "404 not found at line 22" ?19:24
PaulW2Uyes - 404 Not Found at ./publish-uwn.pl line 22.19:25
pleia2ok, let's see..19:25
pleia2and your command was ./publish-uwn.pl 40819:26
pleia2408 should populate the $issue variable, so it looks for https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue408?action=raw19:27
PaulW2Uperhaps it wasn't ???19:27
pleia2what wasn't? :)19:27
pleia2btw, getting these scripts to work is the hardest part, but once it's done, it's done! and scripts make the whole process easier in the long run, we should document what we discover here with your setup19:28
PaulW2UI'm confused but i have a directory issues/408 with a 408 file in it19:29
pleia2just a 408 file?19:29
pleia2if everything worked as expected, issues/408 should have:19:29
pleia2forum.post  loco-contacts.email  microblog.txt  ubuntu-news.email  ubuntu-news-team.email19:29
PaulW2Uyes, it's all there19:30
pleia2ok, open one of them with gedit, see if there is anything in it :)19:30
pleia2try ubuntu-news.email19:30
PaulW2Ugedit? Kubuntu here :)19:31
PaulW2Usuccess !19:31
pleia2ok, great :)19:31
pleia2open up forum.post and 408 to see if they're populated too19:32
pleia2forum.post is ubuntuforums.org, of course, 408 is fridge19:32
pleia2and it occurs to me you probably don't have access to the fridge19:32
pleia2so we'll get that fixed too19:32
PaulW2Uboth populated19:32
pleia2does 408 actually have all the URLs in it? (not an empty list)19:33
PaulW2U408 is a short version with URLs19:33
pleia2perfect19:33
pleia2ok, so running scripts seems ok so far, which was step 13https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/EditingPolicies19:33
pleia2typically I send to ubuntu-news next, but that's the one we can't take back, so let's skip down to #1919:34
pleia2forums we can edit posts on if anything looks funky :)19:34
PaulW2Uok, ready to post19:35
pleia2now, the forums script is kind of broken, I should fix it in the script, but I should do many things19:35
pleia2so in whatever editor you're using, you need to replace \n\n with \n19:36
pleia2(this works in gedit)19:36
pleia2we're replacing double newlines with single newline19:36
pleia2otherwise the post looks all kinds of whitespacy19:36
PaulW2U507 found19:36
pleia2does your editor have a "replace all"?19:37
PaulW2Uyes, replaced19:37
pleia2great19:37
pleia2so ignore the url, copy the title over, and then copy the text in19:37
pleia2then in the forum meta stuff at the bottom, uncheck "Show your signature" check "Disable smilies in text" and check "Stick this thread"19:38
PaulW2Uok19:39
pleia2then you can publish it19:39
pleia2now we want to edit the forum thread for 40719:39
pleia2have to edit, go into advanced and make it unsticky19:40
pleia2hmm, looks like it didn't remove all the double newlines :(19:40
pleia2compare how 407 looks http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2268568 vs 408 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=226957019:40
PaulW2Ueditor has just found another 13719:41
pleia2ok, you'll just want to work with your editor (or switch to gedit ;)) to figure out what went wrong there19:42
pleia2I'm actually a vim user and Xubuntu ships with mousepad, I just use gedit for this because it works so well for UWN19:43
PaulW2Unow it looks squashed up :)19:43
pleia2yikes, that's too squashed19:43
pleia2let's try from scratch, I'll upload the original forums.post19:43
pleia2wget http://princessleia.com/temp/forum.post19:44
pleia2I really should just fix this on the script side, but it used to not always require this fix up (sometimes the formatting would be correct), but it's been a while since the formatting was right19:46
* pleia2 adds to her todo list19:46
PaulW2Uhow's that, any better?19:50
pleia2nope, it's back to having double newlines19:51
pleia2I can just fix this up if you want, I'll fix the script so you won't have to worry about this in the future19:52
PaulW2UI think you had better, if I ask my editor to do a search/replace again it removes all line spacing19:53
pleia2:\19:54
pleia2maybe your editor uses something other than the standard \n\n for double newlines? I don't know, could be it doesn't understand it at all19:54
PaulW2UOr may be I don't understand :) Regex - urrghh19:55
pleia2anyway, fixing up19:55
pleia2neat, I'm not sure I can edit this19:56
pleia2grab http://princessleia.com/temp/forum.post again, it's the no-double-newlines version now19:56
pleia2I need to take a break soon, the husband is hungry for lunch ;)19:59
PaulW2Uno different?19:59
pleia2weird20:00
pleia2I'll rename the file, maybe you got a cached version20:00
pleia2http://princessleia.com/temp/forum2.post20:00
pleia2should just be able to load that your browser and copy directly into the forum post body20:01
pleia2also need to remove the url and title from the top of the post20:01
PaulW2UI did but they kept coming back!20:02
pleia2this is really strange, maybe something weird with kubuntu copy/paste?20:02
pleia2it also became unsticky somewhere along the way20:03
PaulW2UJuts pasted into cream/vim - seems to be the same20:04
pleia2frustrating :(20:04
pleia2even fixing the script won't help if it won't properly paste the proper file20:05
pleia2I guess we just leave it this way20:05
PaulW2UOr have your lunch and I'll rig up Xubuntu with a keyboard and try later?20:06
pleia2yeah, maybe20:06
pleia2we'll skip fridge and discourse posting, since they're related and you don't have access yet (I'll get you access and we can go over those next week or so)20:07
pleia2wiki should be easy to do now (steps 21-25)20:07
pleia2starts with edits to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter20:08
pleia2The Current Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is Issue #407 for the week of March 2 - 8, 2015.20:08
pleia2^^ that, with links, needs to be updated with 40820:08
pleia2also down under "Next Issue (work in progress)" need to replace 408 with 40920:09
PaulW2Udone20:09
pleia2for step 23, actually click on "edit /Current" on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/EditingPolicies20:09
pleia2that will bring up the direct editing page for /Current - otherwise you get stuck in wiki redirect land20:10
PaulW2Udone20:10
pleia2then step 25 is editing https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Archive to add 40820:11
PaulW2Udone20:12
pleia2all looks good, phew, at least that was easy :)20:13
pleia2we don't actually use microblog.txt and I need to get you access to our social media accounts anyway20:13
pleia2I think the last bit is the emails20:14
pleia2have a look at ubuntu-news.email ubuntu-news-team.email and loco-contacts.email20:15
pleia2loco-contacts.email is actually incomplete, I need to fix it to also include the bit at the end that I add now, like: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2015-March/006946.html20:16
pleia2the "Have news, photos..." bit20:16
pleia2and you should manually put in info from whatever loco is in the newsletter, if any20:17
pleia2like in that one, I mentioned the Myanmar team, in this one you might put something like: Including news about an upcoming event in Leon, Spain.20:17
PaulW2Uok20:17
pleia2if you're subscribed to ubuntu-news-team and loco-contacts, you're all set to just send those mails (we send from our @ubuntu.com addresses)20:18
pleia2the file helps by giving you the To: address and Subject: to use20:19
PaulW2UProbably not loco-contacts20:20
pleia2ok, you'll want to subscribe there, in the mailing list settings you can set yourself not to receive mail if you don't want them20:20
pleia2(though it's pretty low traffic, and good for collecting loco news :D)20:21
PaulW2Usubscribed20:22
pleia2the husband is finally ready for lunch, I need to run out for that20:22
pleia2you can go ahead and send all three emails if you want, ubuntu-news will be held in a moderator queue anyway and I can review when I get back, and let it through if it looks good20:22
pleia2should be back in an hour or so20:23
PaulW2Uok........... :)20:23
PaulW2UInstalled gedit on Xubuntu 15.04 no change posting with Chrome20:44
PaulW2UWhat you see now posted with Firefox on Xubuntu 15.04 but still doesn't look right :(20:49
PaulW2Upleia2: Success! Posting must be done in source mode not WYSIWYG mode!21:05
pleia2PaulW2U: aha! noted :)21:19
pleia2woohoo https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news/2015-March/000486.html21:20
pleia2other mails looked good too :)21:20
PaulW2Uhours of fun this - could have written all the summaries in less time :)21:22
pleia2with practice, it takes me about 20-30 minutes to do it all (depends on slowness of wiki, SSO logins)21:24
PaulW2Udo I not get a copy of the newsletter then?21:25
pleia2do you use gmail?21:26
pleia2Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 408 for the week March 9 - 15, 2015 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue40821:28
pleia2^^ I usually say that in here, and use the same to put on Twitter & Facebook, G+ gets a similar thing, but the link is put in the link field21:28
PaulW2UNo. I got awaiting approval message but nothing since.21:29
pleia2weird, it came to me and landed in the archives21:30
pleia2annoyingly, gmail eats posts you send to lists so you don't get copies, maybe your mail provider does similar?21:32
PaulW2UPossible, I'll have to take a closer look. Anyway, I never read UWN, doesn't seem to be much point :)21:34
Unit193I sware, the few times I don't get pinged, this happens: https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2015/02/index.en.htm 404'ing21:34
pleia2Unit193: doh21:34
pleia2PaulW2U: want to fix up that link in the wiki and in the forums post? should be https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2015/02/index.en.html21:35
pleia2lost an l at the end there)21:35
PaulW2Uok21:35
PaulW2Udone21:38
pleia2fridge, discourse and social media is all sorted21:40
PaulW2UExcellent! Thanks for that pleia2. Most enlightening.21:41
pleia2should go smoother next time :)21:41
PaulW2UAt least I know there's nothing wrong with my Kubuntu :)21:42

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