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Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 11:31:36 +0200
From: Anne Nicolas <ennael1@gmail.com>
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Hi everyone,
This mail is not using usual council ML but group alias
(council@group.mageia.org). Please keep it for current discussions.
I'm mailing here the mail Romain sent to the board yesterday, following
last discussions we had with Mandriva CEO, JM Croset.
=================
so, Anne and me got in a conf call with JM Croset a few minutes ago to
get a status.
He announced yesterday (Thursday, May 18)
http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2012/05/17/mandriva-linux-will-return-to-the-community/.
So several discussions are popping up here and there. Mageia's
position has been transferred to some people inside Mandriva, among
which Peroyvind (see
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?p=18041#p18041 - although he
doesn't have the full story it seems).
He will announce early next Monday (22) that Mandriva SA will use Mageia
as a tech platform for its business server line, and contribute back.
Antoine Ginies (Mandriva engineer in chief for the business server) will
get in touch with us to see how we do this technically.
He worries that trolls and discussions may damage Mageia in the coming
days (for both news: Mandriva using Mageia as a tech platform for its
Business Server line; and Mageia not following Mandriva in its
foundation things) because he realizes that... community stuff sometimes
goes out of hand; but he reassured us that, whatever is said, he does
mean good for everyone; so it's important to play it cool and neutral on
our side too.
So, here's a suggested plan:
* we announce/explicit both news on our side on Monday early morning
(CEST) as well, in a single blog post embedding all Mandriva-related news:
- on one side, Mageia is not going to join Mandriva foundation
project (and why, cold reasons as we gave him),
- on the other side, Mandriva is going to use Mageia as tech
platform for its business server line (link) and contribute back.
- this double news should make it more obvious that things are not
so simple as "Mageia is dumping Mandriva" or "Mandriva is rebasing on
Mageia".
* this news being published Monday morning, it leaves two full days to
propagate, before we push the Mageia 2 release news (Tuesday evening) -
interest about Mageia will have raised a bit in the previous days, and
this release news will hide partially the previous news.
===================
It's good news for Mageia as it makes Mageia ecosystem grow up. It will
make things clearer for Mageia community now as many things were told
about Mandriva future and community. Mageia keeps its own governance and
organization which are now working quite well.
So the next step is about communicating on these news. As said by Romain
it has to be prepared and be ready very quickly as Mandriva announcement
is planned for sunday evening. Mandriva CEO will send us the draft of
its own announcement so that we can check we all agree on the content.
So now we have to work on the Mageia blog post which will be published
on monday morning:
https://pad.riseup.net/p/mdv-foundation
native english speakers needed for proofread :)
Waiing for your comments
Cheers
--
Anne
http://mageia.org
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