Django update blog day 2: Working toward a new workflow

My hope is that the newsroom workflow can begin to go Web-first next week.

We have a few bug issues that need to be worked out before this can happen, but Noah is hopeful this can be done by the end of the week.

Speaking of which, Noah is on vacation next week, then he's scheduled to work on advertising issues when he gets back. If these issues are not resolved this week, we'll either have to wait to change workflow until mid-September or push back the advertising issues.

Here is what still needs to happen to switch up work flow:

Notes mode -- Right now, text can easily be put INTO notes mode. To pull it out of notes mode, you have to do it one paragraph at a time. We hope to get this buggy issue fixed ASAP.

Reversioning -- Noah hopes to have something to show for this Wednesday. This is the feature that would allow us to go back to an earlier version of a story.

Story search -- When searching for stories, if that story has been modified, all versions of that story show up in the search. Noah is working on this.

Everything else seems to be working well enough to switch around workflow. My recommendation is to begin filing and editing in django late next week or early the week after (Sept. 8). As we get closer to having the bugs worked out, we'll need to schedule a training time with editors.

Ideally, I'd like to:

Sept. 2 and 3 (Tuesday and Wednesday) -- train editors and reporters on how to post to django
Sept. 4 -- Have one beat begin posting in django. If all goes well ...
Sept. 5 -- Newsroom posting to django first. Begin reshuffling, reimaging newsroom computers.