[Mageia-dev] Mageia 3 specifications

Thu May 31 00:14:58 CEST 2012

Le mercredi 30 mai 2012 23:43:03, Anne Nicolas a écrit :
+> 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
+
+Maybe this would deserve a blog post so that people who don't follow the 
+mageia-dev mailing list have a chance to propose new features for Mageia 3, 
+provided they follow the features policy?
+
+Samuel
+