Write BRL-CAD News article on .deb/.rpm buildsBRL-CAD
Status: ClosedTime to complete: 72 hrs Mentors: SeanTags: news, article, linux

BRL-CAD's maintainer, Jordi Sayol, manages the .deb and .rpm builds. Interview the developer, obtain details on how the releases are produced, what platforms are supported, etc, and write up an article for our Community Publication Portal (CPP)

The output of this task is an article added to our CPP wiki page in a final production-quality review state.

References:

Uploaded Work
File name/URLFile sizeDate submitted
brl-cad1.txt2.4 KBNovember 29 2012 02:27 UTC
interview.txt2.3 KBDecember 03 2012 15:02 UTC
interview.txt2.5 KBDecember 04 2012 10:31 UTC
Comments
Galaon November 26 2012 23:58 UTCTask Claimed

I would like to work on this task.

Sean on November 27 2012 00:25 UTCTask Assigned

This task has been assigned to Gala. You have 72 hours to complete this task, good luck!

Galaon November 27 2012 01:05 UTC Question Re Write BRL-CAD News article on .deb/.rpm builds BRL-CAD Process

Hello Sean,


I have prepared the questions I would like to ask Mr. Sayol for an interview. How would you like me to send these to him?


Thank you,


Gala

Sean on November 27 2012 01:22 UTCvia e-mail

His contact information is in our HACKING file, contained within all distributions of BRL-CAD (and available online, just do a search).  You can contact him via e-mail.


If the article goes well enough, we have a follow-up task too.  Let me know if you run into any problems.

Galaon November 29 2012 02:28 UTCReady for review

The work on this task is ready to be reviewed.

Melange on November 30 2012 00:25 UTCNo more Work can be submitted

Melange has detected that the deadline has passed and no more work can be submitted. The submitted work should be reviewed.

Sean on November 30 2012 18:31 UTCDeadline extended

The deadline of the task has been extended with 0 days and 12 hours.

Sean on November 30 2012 18:37 UTCCPP wiki

Gala, your article looks good.  I would have like to have seen some more write-up from you based on the interview or quotes of his intermixed with an article from you, but it's not bad as it is.  I would suggest changing "BRL-CAD News (BCN)" to something else.  You're the interviewer, so perhaps you can introduce yourself say a couple sentences about your participation in GCI and what you think about the program.  Then it can be your initials instead of BCN.  You do need to at least credit yourself as the author on the second line (by Gala...).


The other remaining issue is that the article needs to be added to our CPP too: 










Sean on November 30 2012 18:37 UTCDeadline extended

The deadline of the task has been extended with 0 days and 12 hours.

Galaon November 30 2012 22:28 UTCFollow-Up on Code-In Task

Hi Sean,


Thanks for the feedback. I want to expand this into an article as you suggested, however I have my SATs in the morning. So, I will not be able to put substantial time into this until tomorrow afternoon. I'm also going to follow up with Mr. Sayol, and see if I can get a few more facts for the article.


Thank you for your time and help!

Galaon December 1 2012 01:22 UTCFollow-Up on Code-In Task

Hi Sean,


 


I have submitted an updated version to CPP Final Editorial Review section.


Please take a look and let me know if you would like further revisions.


 


I left the original "Introduction to new .deb and .rpm builds" top in the Idea Hopper, but since my article is intended to cover that topic, we should probably remove that placeholder - which I will do, pending acceptance of my article.


 


Thank you!


 


-- Gala

Harmanpreet Singh on December 1 2012 17:13 UTCAwsome, but...

Gala, your work is awsome. It is appeciable that you followed Sean's suggestions  and made some changes but what it seems to me that your article looks more like an interview. Interview was to be used as tool to collect information. However, as I already stated above, your work is appericiable. :)


But as you mentioned in your comment on 30 November 2012 22:28 UTC, you should expand it something more like an article. Also try to add little more details (may be technical) about this process if you have any.


I will extend the deadline for one day. 


Good luck... :)

Harmanpreet Singh on December 1 2012 17:13 UTCDeadline extended

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Harmanpreet Singh on December 1 2012 17:23 UTCTask Needs More Work

One of the mentors has sent this task back for more work. Talk to the mentor(s) assigned to this task to satisfy the requirements needed to complete this task, submit your work again and mark the task as complete once you re-submit your work.

Sean on December 2 2012 05:50 UTCDeadline extended

The deadline of the task has been extended with 1 days and 0 hours.

Galaon December 2 2012 17:31 UTCUnclaiming Article Task

Hi Sean and Harmanpreet,


I think I must be in over my head. :)


   I think everyone has been really nice and helpful and patient, but I have basically spent a week on this one project, and I do not seem to understand enough to write the thorough article that you are looking for right now. I would like to unclaim this task so that someone else who is better suited to do it can have it, and I will look for another open source task where I can better contribute using my skills.


Thanks again for all your time, help and encouragement!


~Gala

Galaon December 2 2012 17:31 UTCClaim Removed

The claim on this task has been removed, someone else can claim it now.

Johnon December 2 2012 17:48 UTCTask Claimed

I would like to work on this task.

Andrei Popescu on December 2 2012 17:53 UTCTask Assigned

This task has been assigned to John. You have 72 hours to complete this task, good luck!

Sean on December 2 2012 18:08 UTCclarification

John,


Since this task was already worked, write your article based on the question+answer responses from Gala's effort and post your article to our CPP.


Gala,


If you like, we can create a task to just interview Jordi since we obviously want you to get credit for your effort.  How does that sound?


 

Johnon December 2 2012 18:16 UTCtemplate

Sean,


 


is there any pre-defined template for writing the article, or I'm free to choose the layout?

Sean on December 2 2012 19:02 UTCno template

John, there's no template.  The article itself (i.e., the text written) is more important than the layout.  It should be informative and interesting, utilizing the questions and answers that Gala summarized.  There were more questions if you'd like to contact Jordi to get more responses.  Be sure to credit yourself and Gala in the final article.

Sean on December 2 2012 19:31 UTCnew task

Gala, this was created to credit your work: http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7966232

Johnon December 2 2012 20:16 UTCAlpha version

Sean,


I have already been working on an alpha version of the article (260 words). I've also sent a message to Jordi with a few more questions.


Is there any way I can show you what I've already done, or you prefer to wait until I finish?

Sean on December 2 2012 20:19 UTCi'll wait

I'm okay waiting until you're done. ;)


 

Johnon December 3 2012 15:05 UTCReady for review

The work on this task is ready to be reviewed.

Sean on December 4 2012 05:22 UTCTask Needs More Work

One of the mentors has sent this task back for more work. Talk to the mentor(s) assigned to this task to satisfy the requirements needed to complete this task, submit your work again and mark the task as complete once you re-submit your work.

Sean on December 4 2012 05:25 UTCnicely done

John,


That looks fantastic, almost perfect.  Just a couple minor requests and this should be good to go:



  1. remove the reference to the CPP, just refer to the interview informally or quote Gala directly.  the cpp is like going backstage, you don't talk about it.

  2. include a direct quote from Jordi somewhere.  quotes really help an article stand out when you include him within your conversation.

  3. add the article to our CPP


Thanks again, that's really great.

Johnon December 4 2012 11:43 UTCReady for review

The work on this task is ready to be reviewed.

H S Rai on December 4 2012 15:40 UTCA few correction

John,


You did a remarkable work. Just make following corrections:


1) In 2nd paragraph, replace "in" to "on" at two places; as it is "based on" and not "based in".


2) In 3rd paragraph, replace "working in BRL-CAD" "working with BRL-CAD"


3) In 3rd paragraph, replace "with is advanced Linux experience as his only companion" with "with his Linux experience (as advanced user) as his only companion"


4) In 3rd paragraph, I suggest to rephrase following:


By that time, he started colaborating on-line with other BRL-CAD team members.


Also correct spelling of "collaborating".


5) In 4th paragraph; I suggest to change "Within such a massive project, with lots of code lines, he decided to take as his responsability the building of binary packages for Linux systems, since he's not a programmer" to "With such a massive project, which has millions of lines of code (LOC), he decided to take responsibility to build binary packages for Linux System, to put his skills to best use"


I stop here. You got the idea what type of changes I want. I could do it on my own, as all are of Editorial Type; but I stongly suggest to just read article, pretending yourself as teacher, and do all such corrections and modification.

H S Rai on December 4 2012 15:53 UTCTask Needs More Work

One of the mentors has sent this task back for more work. Talk to the mentor(s) assigned to this task to satisfy the requirements needed to complete this task, submit your work again and mark the task as complete once you re-submit your work.

Johnon December 4 2012 19:59 UTCReady for review

The work on this task is ready to be reviewed.

Sean on December 5 2012 04:03 UTCfull name

John, if you provide your full name, I'll gladly credit you in our authorship documentation accordingly.  Thank you for your efforts.  It's a great piece that we'll work to publish to our news outlets.

Sean on December 5 2012 04:03 UTCTask Closed

Congratulations, this task has been completed successfully.