@onduss Thank you for your contribution, it is appreciated.

The editors will review it, however, please note that we have a process, described here, for proposing and approving articles and it would be very helpful to the editors for it to be followed, in the future. It ensures that articles are tracked through the publishing process successfully.

At first glance, I note that the feature image, while a little amazing, is not properly sized. The Magazine standard is 1890 x 800 and yours is 1792 x 1024. This sizing is important so it will work for other downstream sites.

The second thing is that you refer to a Fedora Magazine article as a blog post. While perhaps technically correct, we refer to them as articles since this is the "Fedora Magazine".

I also note that there are some paragraphs/sections that appear to be duplicated. Please read through the article and remove the duplicates as necessary.

Let us know when you have has a chance to review and the editors will take a more in depth look. BTW here is a link to some tips for writing articles, in case you haven't seen it.

Thanks again.

@rlengland, thanks for the feedback. To be honest, I had a lot of problems logging in to the discussion forum, so I tried it this way. I'm sorry.

The image scale should be fixed, duplicated paragraphs removed, and the blog replaced with the article.

I notice that in your example packer build ... command near the end of the article, some options are specified as -var=... and some as --var=.... I assume that one form is correct and the other is not? Typically, long options are specified with a double dash (--whatever), while a single dash is used for short options such as -v or -a (and something like -var would be a shorthand for specifying -v, -a, and -r all at once).

Hi @glb,
thanks for pointing this out, but you are not entirely right with the --var to be correct. Although I know it is common knowledge how the options should be implemented, the packer takes another way. Packer uses only -var notation. Checkout the docs -- https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/docs/commands

So you can use -var or --var as the first dash is ignored...

Hey folks,
is there anything else I must edit before it can be published?

Thanks

Hi @onduss, there isn't anything more you need to do at this point. I just need to review the article and schedule it. I'll do that now and let you know if I see any problems.

Thanks!

Hi @onduss:

I've made an editing pass on your article and scheduled it to go out on Wednesday.

https://fedoramagazine.org/build-custom-images-for-testing-farm/

The biggest change I made was to the title. The search engine optimization (SEO) algorithm wanted a "key phrase" in the title that was also used periodically throughout the article and in the article's section headers. Tweaking the title and setting the key phrase to "custom images" seemed to make the SEO algorithm happy.

Other than that, the changes were minor. I changed "Fedora" to "Fedora Linux" in a few places and I spelled out "HW" as hardware. I did a little wordsmithing in a few sentences, but overall the changes were minor (other than the title).

Let us know with a comment here if you would like any further revisions. Otherwise, this article will go out Wednesday at 08:00 UTC.

Thanks!