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

Sun Feb 6 22:07:09 CET 2011

Greetings,
+I have deep knowledge of php if I can be of help.
+please let me know.
+
+cheers
+C. Roger
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+________________________________
+From: Anne nicolas <ennael1 at gmail.com>
+To: Mageia development mailing-list <mageia-dev at mageia.org>
+Sent: Sun, 6 February, 2011 5:53:34 PM
+Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] Dev Team Call To Action...
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+Le 6 févr. 2011 17:24, "Richard Couture" <rrc at linuxcabal.org> a écrit :
+>
+> I posted this message a while back, but never received a response,..
+>
+hi richard 
+just checked and it looks like contact washington done. anyway boklm will mail 
+you tonight about this 
+
+
+
+
+> 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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