[Mageia-dev] Mageia 3 specifications

Wed May 30 23:43:03 CEST 2012

Hi there
+
+Mageia 2 is out, it's now time to work on next version, Mageia 3. We 
+tried to improve the specifications process so that it can be more 
+efficient and less frustrating :).
+
+Some conclusions on Mageia 2 specifications:
+
+- lots of proposals, very few achieved
+- lots of incomplete proposals
+- specifications that are not really specifications like "update to xxx 
+version" for minor packages
+- some kind of catalog of items without logic
+- lots of proposals without any resources
+...
+
+So in order to improve all this, we looked at what were doing other 
+distributions, especially in Fedora. Then we worked on first version for 
+"Features policy" that will be used for Mageia.
+
+Here is the process:
+
+- until 15/06: make proposals for Mageia 3 specifications (features) 
+following our policy
+- 16 to 18/06: choose features that will be added for official 
+specifications of Mageia 3
+- publish and communicate on it
+
+Mageia features policy:
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Features_policy
+Template for feature proposal:
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature_Template
+
+Please read carefully this policy and use the template. Once it's done, 
+feel free to mail -dev if you think you need to discuss your feature and 
+find people so that you can propose resources to work on it.
+
+Cheers
+
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