[Writers] Review process and editorial calendar

Wed Nov 15 14:16:02 UTC 2023

Hi Karsten and Markus,

We have updated our style guide to address some of your questions. I'm
answering some questions inline below as well:

> Are there Kanban Boards or Ticket systems or a git repo to see what state
an article submitted is in?

We have a ticket system where you as an author should be able to know
what's the status of your proposal at any time.

> How does the review process work for submitted posts?

We added the editorial workflow to the style guide page for reference.
https://opensource.net/style-guide/

> How do I interact with reviewers if/when there is no response to my
updates to a ticket?

The editorial team reviews all submissions and responds within their
capacity as volunteers. Keep in mind that OSnet is still a volunteer-run
effort at the moment. Unfortunately, they’re not able to respond to
everyone in a short time frame: in general, the better, clearer and on
point the pitch is, the quicker the reply.

> That is, once I submit either an idea or an idea-as-draft-post, what
should I expect to happen? What is the intended timeline for responding
to the submission, giving a review status update, providing back an
editorial review for author changes, and publication?

If a pitch is accepted, the editors will follow up with the author using
the ticket system and the collaborative editing tool.

> How does that process interact with the editorial calendar? Do you have
a limit on the number of posts published in a week? Do you only publish
on specific days? What if the author has a specific date they want or
need to be published by?

Currently we only have capacity to publish a few posts per week. If you
have specific expectations about the publication date of an article, or if
it contains embargoed information, let us know when you pitch or submit it:
no guarantees, though, we can't commit to a SLA.

> Does the editorial calendar impose any other hidden limitations? For
example, there could be an editorial goal to have at least one post a
week from an OSI Board member. Combined with a total limit on the number
of posts in a week, that would be a limitation on how many outside
submissions will be published. It wouldn't be uncommon for some of those
soft and hard editorial goals to not be spelled out in the public
calendar or to writers, but perhaps there is more that could be said?

There are no hidden limitations although we do try to have variety of
topics and high quality in the material we publish. As the site grows and
we raise funds to pay for staff, we'll eventually run special campaigns
throughout the year like incentivizing proposals that follow a particular
theme or topic.

I hope this helps!

Thanks,
Nick

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 11:19 AM Markus Feilner <mfeilner at feilner-it.net>
wrote:

> Awesome, thank you!
>
> Am Dienstag, 7. November 2023, 14:53:28 CET schrieb Nick Vidal via Writers:
> > Hi Karsten and Markus,
> >
> > I asked these questions to our editor in chief and will get back to you
> > soon.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nick
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 4, 2023, 6:32 AM Markus Feilner via Writers <
> >
> > writers at lists.opensource.net> wrote:
> > > +1 - I would like to know that, too :-) Are there Kanban Boards or
> Ticket
> > > systems or a git repo to see what state an article submitted is in?
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot!
> > >
> > > Am Samstag, 4. November 2023, 01:44:18 CET schrieb Karsten Wade via
> > >
> > > Writers:
> > > > Hi folks,
> > > >
> > > > I was looking around for these answers but haven't found anything
> yet. I
> > > > got started because I have a post on hold, but I got to thinking
> further
> > > > about future posts I have in mind and what expectations to have.
> > > >
> > > > How does the review process work for submitted posts?
> > > >
> > > > How do I interact with reviewers if/when there is no response to my
> > > > updates to a ticket?
> > > >
> > > > That is, once I submit either an idea or an idea-as-draft-post, what
> > > > should I expect to happen? What is the intended timeline for
> responding
> > > > to the submission, giving a review status update, providing back an
> > > > editorial review for author changes, and publication?
> > > >
> > > > How does that process interact with the editorial calendar? Do you
> have
> > > > a limit on the number of posts published in a week? Do you only
> publish
> > > > on specific days? What if the author has a specific date they want or
> > > > need to be published by?
> > > >
> > > > Does the editorial calendar impose any other hidden limitations? For
> > > > example, there could be an editorial goal to have at least one post a
> > > > week from an OSI Board member. Combined with a total limit on the
> number
> > > > of posts in a week, that would be a limitation on how many outside
> > > > submissions will be published. It wouldn't be uncommon for some of
> those
> > > > soft and hard editorial goals to not be spelled out in the public
> > > > calendar or to writers, but perhaps there is more that could be said?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > - Karsten--
> > > >
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