[Mageia-dev] Stuff needed for release day

Sun May 22 23:59:40 CEST 2011

Le dimanche 22 mai 2011 à 11:02 +0200, Patricia Fraser a écrit :
+> Hi Devs, marcomm team here!
+> 
+> I know everyone's busy, but I hope some of you can help with a few
+> words for the release announcements.
+> 
+> I need to get responses to this as soon as possible, deadline
+> Wednesday this week (25/05) because the completed pages have to go to
+> i18n before release day.
+> 
+> For the focus pages on the websites, can you please add a few words
+> here:
+
+Could you explain what you mean exactly ? ( ie, adding to wiki, to a
+real web page in svn, answer here with the text ? )
+
+> - Developers' page:
+> 
+> what do they have useful for them in Mageia 1; what benefits are
+> there for a developer if they choose Mageia
+
+This should be benefit vs windows, vs os x, vs another linux-based
+systems ?
+( cause I think that for the moment, we are not really different than
+others linux based system, and more specifically, we are a little bit
+behind from systems who offer newer gcc, newer python, etc or more
+packages ( fedora, debian, etc ) ).
+
+> - Specs & requirements page:
+> 
+> what are the hardware specs and system requirements for a new user
+> installing (or upgrading) to Mageia 1?
+
+Usually, any computer that was sold since 7/8 years should be enough,
+depending on what you want. We can tell roughly how much space it would
+take on a disk, we could tell how much memory will be used by a default
+installation, but since that can be tweaked to be lower, we should try
+to reflect that.
+
+I think we do have a limit of requiring 512 or 256 mo for installer, and
+that a regular installation would be 3 g ?
+( it can be tweaked down to something like 200 mo of disk space, iirc ).
+
+We are targeting for the moment regular desktop and laptop running x86
+compatible processor, 32 and 64 bits ( intel, amd, via, etc ).
+
+> - Thanks page:
+> 
+> please nominate people on your team who should be mentioned on this
+> page!
+
+I usually find it to be quite risky. Not that I do not want to thanks
+people for their work, but that's either a huge job ( ie, for each
+people write something customized, with complexity increasing with each
+release ), or a script ( ie, take svn log + some script ) that would
+remove the human nature of the thanks.
+
+Maybe I am just "special" when it come to some form of rewards, so could
+maybe other packagers give their opinion ( ie, would a script be
+enough ? )
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+