[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

Wed Oct 20 17:24:56 CEST 2010

On Wednesday, 20 October 2010 15:11:42 andré wrote:
+> The critical part is the ability to directly contact the user with the
+> problem.  For Bugzilla, you have to log in, so there is an email adresse
+> for contact.  And this is generally the case for forums.  If we use a
+> forum for submitting bugs, we need the same login so that Bugzilla has a
+> contact email available.  This is doable, and would also be more
+> convenient for all contributors.
+> Of course, there is still the barrier of getting the user to sign up for
+> an account ... :)
+
+We aim to solve this by using a single backend for as many of the tools 
+available to users, at minimum:
+-forum
+-bug tracker
+-mailing list subscription management
+
+Hopefully also:
+-wiki
+-blogs
+
+If we develop other web apps, e.g. one for browsing packages etc. (for both 
+packagers and users, integrating the type of information that was available 
+for Mandriva at maint.mandriva.com, youri.zarb.org/demo/mandriva, build system 
+output etc.), most likely it will use the same account infrastructure.
+
+I would also look at other SSO technologies (e.g. OpenID) running on this 
+backend to possibly allow Mageia identities to be used for authenticating to 
+other (e.g. upstream) projects.
+
+See some more info at http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=directory
+
+I have finished some of the work that was holding this up, so we may be able 
+to make this available in a week or two.
+
+Regards,
+Buchan
+