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Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 23:20:33 +0200
From: nicolas vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
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Subject: Re: [board-private] News from Mandriva
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On Mon, 14 May 2012, Oliver Burger wrote:

> Am 14.05.2012 22:44, schrieb Anne Nicolas:
>>
>> Some things ?
>> As a side note we will insist on the fact that Mandriva will be a
>> contributor like any others, no specific relation (just to remind that
>> point). But yes it will be discussed longer.
>>
> We did already discuss that in council. Yes, Mandriva will be like any 
> other company, contributing to Mageia.
> But we should have some kind of "official position", when they announce it. 
> Because I don't think, we should keep it in private, that we already knew 
> about Mandriva's plans in advance and we should be ready to answer 
> questions from our community, why we kept it in private.
> After all, Mageia is about openness (if that is an English word).
>
> I don't have any objections, to keep it in private until Mdv announces its 
> plans and I see it as a big plus for us, that they did decide on using 
> Mageia.
> But we must make certain our community and the rest of the open source 
> world does understand, we will keep our independence.

Yes I think it should be clear that Mageia doesn't do anything special
for Mandriva, which is treated like any other contributor, and is
independant. Maybe we can prepare a blog post to publish after the
announce from Mandriva to remind this and avoid possible misunderstandings ?

And reason for keeping this private is that it was requested by them,
and as Mageia is not taking any decision or doing something special
about this, I think there is no reason to refuse to keep this info
private for now.