[Mageia-dev] artwork team, packager/dev assistance needed

Fri Mar 11 19:35:02 CET 2011

On 10 March 2011 12:17, Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny at gmail.com> wrote:
+> Hi there,
+>
+> artwork team is getting its hands on the bootstrap and installer
+> processes; backgrounds/screensavers are incoming too; and it will need
+> to do so on the graphic theme (ia ora so far).
+>
+> For now, the team needs assistance from packagers/developers on these modules:
+>  - drakx (installer - perl/gtk skills/interest needed)
+>  - theme (bootstrap, hibernate, shutdown, backgrounds, screensavers -
+> plymouth skills/interest needed)
+>
+> to help to:
+>  - better understand how graphics/animations are and can be used (and
+> maybe, later, build quick mockup tools);
+>  - replace them;
+>  - cleanup (remove obsolete stuff, maybe break these modules into
+> smaller, more to-the-point ones);
+>  - document (help future artwork and dev people to get a better grasp
+> on these modules).
+>
+> This is not for alpha2 (although a quick overview would be welcome)
+> but for beta1 (and later of course); work would start at once anyway.
+>
+> Volunteers? if you are, please join mageia-artwork@ and/or #mageia-artwork.
+
+I can describe where/how to change drakx & mcc artwork
+