Ask Fedora: Do we need to add a "solved" tag to answered questions to increase visibility in search engines
by Ankur Sinha
Hi,
I don't think we had a formal discussion about this. We've noticed
questions with [solved] in the summary recently.
There are two scenarios when this is being used:
- the question was answered properly, and the answer did actually help
- the person did something like a reinstall, and the question isn't
pertinent any more (the poster doesn't need it anymore, so he just adds
[solved] and moves on.)
We can always close questions with the "answer was accepted" solution,
but I'm not for using that. More answers can always be given, and
answers can always be improved.
Here's the first proposal:
- Add "Please do not add the [Solved] keyword to your question
summaries. If you received an answer that solved the issue, please mark
the answer as correct and reward the helper with karma." to the user
guidelines.
Now, the addition of the term "solved" somewhere in the question does
help in a way: it helps improve search results, say google/bing/whatever
(This is based on my basic understanding of SEO etc, please correct me
if I'm mistaken). So, an additional proposal:
- Mods add a "solved" tag to questions that they feel are properly
answered, and the answer was accepted, just to ensure that search
engines associate the term with the question.
This will ensure that the second case mentioned earlier doesn't occur
and improve search results too.
google search -> "site:ask.fedoraproject.org create desktop shortcuts
solved"
Now, I do see that stack exchange doesn't do this sort of thing at all,
so proposal 2 might not be required at all.
Also, since we're now using instances for languages, shouldn't we have a
set of guildelines for moderators, if we don't already? To ensure that
everyone follows the same system etc.? I still need to talk to the
Spanish mods about the use of the "user group" functionality. Should I
ask them to join the infra ML, or is there a simpler way of speaking to
all mods? Considering that we do all our discussion here, maybe they
should be required to join the infra list? I think a separate ML for
mods would be overkill.
Comments?
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9 years, 10 months
Plan for tomorrow's Fedora Infrastructure meeting (2014-01-30)
by Kevin Fenzi
The infrastructure team will be having it's weekly meeting tomorrow,
2014-01-30 at 19:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting on the freenode network.
Suggested topics:
#topic New folks introductions and Apprentice tasks.
If any new folks want to give a quick one line bio or any apprentices
would like to ask general questions, they can do so in this part of the
meeting. Don't be shy!
#topic Applications status / discussion
Check in on status of our applications: pkgdb, fas, bodhi, koji,
community, voting, tagger, packager, dpsearch, etc.
If there's new releases, bugs we need to work around or things to note.
#topic Sysadmin status / discussion
Here we talk about sysadmin related happenings from the previous week,
or things that are upcoming.
#topic Upcoming Tasks/Items
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/list/infrastructure/
#topic Open Floor
Submit your agenda items, as tickets in the trac instance and send a
note replying to this thread.
More info here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Meetings#Meetings
Thanks
kevin
9 years, 10 months
ask fedora -- explanations for edits?
by Matthew Miller
What happened to the form where you could explain why you made an edit? Did
we lose that in the update?
--
Matthew Miller -- Fedora Project -- <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
9 years, 10 months
Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Joseph Walton-Rivers
by Joseph Walton-Rivers
Hello,
My IRC handle is WebPigeon.
I graduated from University last year and have been a long time
Fedora/Linux user. I have an interest in software development and system
administration.
I work for a local company and maintain the IT systems there as well as
dealing with end user requests. I also work on small web based projects
using Django for the same company and as a hobby.
I'd like to help by working on the web applications and hopefully get
involved with/learn more about server administration.
Regards,
Joseph
9 years, 10 months
Porting bodhi to ansible
by Janez Nemanič
Hi,
I am working on ticket
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/4193. So far I have
managed to port just the puppet's basic bodhi class. I think that should be
basic role for bodhi in ansible. Now I am a little uncertain what to do
next. I am not sure how many other roles should create in ansible. The most
simple solution would be to have the following roles:
- bodhi_base
- bodhi_app
- bodhi_app_masher
- bodhi_proxy
- bodhi_app_epelmasher
- bodhi_app_masher_jobrunner
This is just mapping of puppet's bodhi classes to ansible roles. What I am
asking myself is do I really need that many roles? Is it possible to do the
job with fewer roles?
Could other infra team members share their thoughts with me and help me a
little bit?
--
Janez Nemanic
Lep pozdrav
Best regards
9 years, 10 months
Re: Problem to get mirror from epel 6 & 7
by Adrian Reber
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:03:24AM +0100, Julien Ippolito wrote:
> Hi, we have some problem to get mirror fore epel-6 for all arch.
>
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-6&arch=x86_64
>
> we get this error :
>
> # Bad Request 7373
> # {'repo': u'epel-6', 'IP': IP('82.227.12.86'), 'client_ip':
> u'82.227.12.86', 'metalink': False, 'arch': u'x86_64'}
I am sending it to the fedora infrastructure list. I can confirm the
error. metalink still seems to work; mirrorlist not.
Adrian
9 years, 10 months
Python 3 roadmap for applications?
by Stephen John Smoogen
In looking at the EPEL and EL7 coming up I realized that EL7 does not ship
python3 currently. How does this affect our roadmap plans for moving to
Python3 in the near future and if it does how much work do we expect it to
be to support python3.4 in EPEL?
I figured this was more of an infrastructure
--
Stephen J Smoogen.
9 years, 10 months
fedoraproject.org SIP service?
by Daniel Pocock
Hi,
debian.org is in the progress of enabling a SIP service for the
developer community.
Many of the same tools used for debian.org are in Fedora as well. I
have been helping get the reSIProcate package into shape for this type
of use and I would be happy to help the Fedora community benefit from
this. Ideally, we would have a situation where sip:user@debian.org can
call sip:user@fedoraproject.org and vice versa.
I understand Fedora does not provide full ISP-like services (e.g.
mailboxes) to the community and Debian is much the same. A SIP service
would not be a full software PBX like Asterisk or FreeSWITCH. It would
simply be a SIP proxy that enables interconnection between project
members. If some people want to connect their private Asterisk servers
to the SIP proxy they can do that, but there would be no obligation to
maintain things like that centrally.
An overview of the project at Debian is in this wiki, I'm quite happy to
make a version of this adapted for the Fedora wiki:
https://wiki.debian.org/UnifiedCommunications/DebianDevelopers
I'll be up at FOSDEM in two weeks, so if anybody wants to discuss or
work on any aspect of this in person at that time please feel free to
get in touch.
Regards,
Daniel
9 years, 10 months
Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction: sart
by dashcom
Hello everyone!
I wanted to introduce myself, sart, and offer my assistance as a new volunteer with the Fedora Infrastructure Group. I volunteered very briefly approx. 11/11 - 1/12 and hope to stick around much longer this time.
IRC handle: sart (can't remember my old handle last time I volunteered, so this is a new one)
skills: I am currently attending Boston University Metro. College online, part-time, working toward MSCIS with security concentration. My skills are limited at this point, but include CentOS/RHEL basic administration tasks, good grasp of using CLI, VIM, basic BASH scripting, basic admin tasks, system configuration, backups, basic concepts of intrusion detection and prevention, hardening systems...
What I'd like to work on: this ticket piques my interest https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/833 (intrusion detection system) or https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2455 (SSL redirect bug), anything related to security, system administration (scripting, security, backup/restore, account management, networking, etc.-- any skills that are useful for someone focusing on security). I also really want to develop my programming skills (my experience is mostly in Java, so I am interested in Java or Python, Perl, PHP-- I want to finally get a chance to go beyond 'beginner' in at least one of the languages above and prove to myself that I can get good at it)
I'm currently unemployed, looking to develop a foundation of solid skills which will help me transition as a career-changer back into the IT field, so anything in addition to skill interests I listed above which can help me get my foot in the door somewhere can be added to the list.
Thanks in advance for your patience with neophytes like myself!
9 years, 10 months
Plan for tomorrow's Fedora Infrastructure meeting (2014-01-23)
by Kevin Fenzi
The infrastructure team will be having it's weekly meeting tomorrow,
2014-01-23 at 19:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting on the freenode network.
Suggested topics:
#topic New folks introductions and Apprentice tasks.
If any new folks want to give a quick one line bio or any apprentices
would like to ask general questions, they can do so in this part of the
meeting. Don't be shy!
#topic Applications status / discussion
Check in on status of our applications: pkgdb, fas, bodhi, koji,
community, voting, tagger, packager, dpsearch, etc.
If there's new releases, bugs we need to work around or things to note.
#topic Sysadmin status / discussion
Here we talk about sysadmin related happenings from the previous week,
or things that are upcoming.
#topic Upcoming Tasks/Items
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/list/infrastructure/
#topic Open Floor
Submit your agenda items, as tickets in the trac instance and send a
note replying to this thread.
More info here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Meetings#Meetings
Thanks
kevin
9 years, 10 months