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We managed to drop it from +</I>><i> approximatively 5000 to 2900, not bad but not enough yet. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > - is CERBERUS still on a thick chain of tungsten (I hope!)? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Yes, this is the kind of solution that would happen only when everything else +</I>><i> has been tried, I think. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > - what about the list of packages and their state of maintenance? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > - is there any follow-up? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> You'll find everything in the mageia-dev mailing list archives, I post +</I>><i> regular reports. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > This issue is essential for the future of Mageia - Mageia must have a +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > list of maintained packages that compares favourably to its competitor +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > distros. I just saw a recent comment to bug 278: " ... drakx-net does +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > not have a maintainer ..." - drakx food for Cerberos??? I think the idea +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > to shout for new maintainers was excellent, and should be iterated. How +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > about leaning on Mageia users that have competence, but are - so far - +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > not actively involved? Magiea is a community distro! +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Yes, the ultimate solution is to have more and more contributers, of course, +</I>><i> we're already doing it with the mentoring program, but if you have ideas that +</I>><i> you can apply to find more, please do :) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > Could there be more information for such techy-newbies to motivate them, +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > help them to jump down from the fence? Tell them what effort, what +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > competence, what responsibility is implied by signing up? That is a +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > long-term initiative! Nobody will reasonable start and immediately pick +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > up tons of packages, I started with 2 (well, one of them is a set of +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > packages). But only once I feel safe with that initial commitment I +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > could consider taking more (which means a couple of months from now). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Yes, that's reasonable. The new wiki should be up soon, that kind of document +</I>><i> will find its place there. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > I realize, Mageia is doing exceedingly well, and there is no need to +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > dramatize the situation - but it is not me who invented Cerberos ... And +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > the people who did Mageia 1 should have their hands free for doing +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > Mageia 2 rather than polishing up old stuff. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I don't understand this last sentence. Do you mean we shouldn't maintain +</I>><i> Mageia 1? I think this is not what you mean, but then I don't understand. +</I>><i> +</I>I think he means the developers should have their hands free for working on +cauldron / Mageia 2 and somebody else should do the "polishing" which seems +to mean bugfixing and security updates for the released distro, IIUC. +><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Best regards +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Samuel Verschelde +</I>><i> +</I> +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="005552.html">[Mageia-discuss] MANDATORY READ : 7 days before misc unleashes CERBERUS ! +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="005554.html">[Mageia-discuss] MANDATORY READ : 7 days before misc unleashes CERBERUS ! +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#5553">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#5553">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#5553">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#5553">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |