[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion - messages from the forum

Tue Jun 14 16:21:41 CEST 2011

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 15:38, Lee Forest <lee8oi at gmail.com> wrote:
+> And keeping one golden rule of software development in mind, don't let your
+> system do redundant tasks.
+
+As golden as the need to not to have redundancy: it depends.
+Redundancy can be very, very appreciated. But not always in a
+discussion (be it with mail or web-based forum) where appropriately
+quoting is very, very appreciated too. :-)
+
+> What about being able to [...]
+
+Yes, that could be nice, only, Mageia is not about building first an
+improved mail/forum gateway, but about building first an improved
+operating system. You can't blame people for focusing on this and
+doing it with tools they are productive with already.
+
+Migrating everyone to forums is, here, not acceptable. Dismissing
+others from each side as well. Migrating everyone to ml was not even
+considered (or we wouldn't have planned to have forums, or we would
+have let them to local groups only).
+
+That this question gets discussed on and on is a (good) sign that
+people are motivated to participate. But are you motivated enough to
+cross the bridge, to change your habits and to meet the people where
+they gather to build this thing, and to instill improvements? The
+bridge is wide open and there's so much to built it further. Only,
+it's not necessarily what you expect it to be, at first.
+
+There have been several suggestions as to build a forum/mail gateway,
+only without the means to actually implement it within our
+infrastructure. For what is existing, tux99 used to provide a 3rd
+place showcase gateway in the past but I am not sure what its future
+status will be; or you have
+http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.devel or
+http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.devel or we could consider
+another gateway if it's worth it (Google groups? other?) and if
+there's someone to lend a hand to... no, to join sysadmin team for
+that (and other things).
+
+Speaking of focus, this thread is about the release cycle. Now you are
+welcome to open a bug http://bugs.mageia.org/ in the Websites,
+forums.mageia.org section I guess; if you think it's worth it to
+dig/document this ml/forum thing further (and even better, if you have
+a better workable solution at hand). But please let this thread on
+topic.
+
+Romain
+