[Mageia-dev] Dev Team Call To Action...

Sun Feb 6 16:35:12 CET 2011

I posted this message a while back, but never received a response,..
+
+We, LinuxCabal, have our servers at CloudSigma in Switzerland. I was 
+writing to them yesterday and mentioned that Mageia was a fork of 
+Mandriva and that the Mageia team might benefit from server space as 
+follows:
+
+   As you may know, Mandriva is in a state of flux due to financial
+   considerations and may cease to exist.  As such, Mageia has forked
+   out by the original developers of Mandrake/Mandriva and has gathered
+   most of the original developers on the new team.  As such they are
+   looking for places where they can set up their CVS servers as well as
+   mirror sights to host the distribution, the first version of which is
+   due in June.
+
+   I have managed a local copy of the Mandriva Distribution here at
+   LinuxCabal for years which our users can access from our local
+   internal net to install and to update from during our weekly Install
+   Fests.  Each version uses about 100G of disk space.
+
+   I mention this to see if Cloud Sigma would want to host a site for
+   them. I think that it would possibly be a great source of
+   promotional advertising for you.
+
+   If you are interested, I can put you in contact with the correct
+   people at Mageia or LinuxCabal can actually manage the sight with
+   little or no change to our present configuration.
+
+They responded as follows:
+
+   In terms of Mageia, I think this sounds like an interested
+   opportunity and possibility to collaborate. Please feel free to put
+   them in touch with me in order to see how we might assist them.
+
+This came from Robert Jenkins whose email is robert at cloudsigma.com
+Robert is in a position to donate server space.
+
+Their service has been been excellent.
+
+
+
+
+Richard
+
+
+On 02/06/2011 06:25 AM, Blinov Vyacheslav wrote:
+> В сообщении от Четверг 27 января 2011 03:17:26 автор Maarten Vanraes написал:
+>> Hi,
+>>
+>> I know -dev team doesn't exist yet, but in spite of that: some of us may be
+>> needed.
+>>
+>> Yesterday in the packaging meeting[1], misc and Stormi talked about the
+>> 3days they went to a Cross-Distro App Installer Meeting[2]. As far as I
+>> understood, our involvement in AppStream[3] is 4 part:
+>>   - mageia-app-db would like to use the metadata to display on the site.
+>>   - sophie would like some of the metadata too.
+>>   - mageia could work on making packagekit support work (it does not replace
+>> rpm or urpmi in any way, it is cross-distro and just delegates the work to
+>> urpmi (in our case).)
+>>   - mageia would then package AppStream in the distro. (Nothing is being
+>> said as being used by default: Note that AppStream only does Applications,
+>> while eg: rpmdrake installs packages).
+>>
+>> Since this concerns mostly packaging, it has had a start-discussion in the
+>> packagers' meeting.
+>>
+>> However:
+>>   - mageia-app-db (Stormi: PHP) would like some help.
+>>   - sophie (Nanar: Perl) would like some help.
+>>   - packagekit support (misc: Perl) would need to be finalized.
+>> ( requires intimate knowledge of perl-URPM )
+>>   - someone will have to package AppStream eventually.
+>>
+>>
+>> afaik shikamaru would help with sophie, so i think that is covered.
+>>
+>> So this leaves:
+>>   - PHP for mageia-app-db
+>>   - Perl-URPMI related stuff for packagekit support (i might have some time
+>> for this, not sure yet)
+>>
+>> Now then, if there is anyone from -dev team who is inclined to help out,
+>> please, tell us :-)
+>>
+>> Regards,
+>>
+>> Maarten (aka AL13N)
+>>
+>>
+>> [1]: http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings#packaging_team
+>> [2]: http://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-discuss/20110126/003418.html
+>> [3]: http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/AppStream/MetadataNotes
+>
+>
+> I am still interested in dev team althrough I'm already in i18n.
+> Just noticed this letter -_-
+> I can help with PHP development and html\css\js things, althrough I'm not a
+> pro I will try my best.
+
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