[Mageia-dev] Bye Bye Mageia

Mon Nov 26 20:18:11 CET 2012

Joseph Wang skrev 26.11.2012 20:25:
+>
+> My assumption was that as a community driven project, there would be
+> some mechanism
+> for adding new packages to the system, and that I wouldn't have to
+> worry about getting
+> permission, I would just do it.  Fedora already has a mechanism for
+> doing that, but sense
+> I was already using Mageia, I had thought that Mageia would be at
+> least as open as
+> Fedora, and that it would be easy to add large numbers of new packages.
+>
+> Now if I'm mistaken about this, and this is not the goal of the Mageia
+> maintainers, then
+> I just need to find some other platform to work on.
+>
+
+There is a simple mechanism mostly... :)
+
+We usually dont object to people adding new stuff to the repos,
+as long as they follow our packaging policy and media rules.
+
+But in the cinnamon case we decided we dont want it in official
+repos for now because of the extra problems it would introduce
+at this point...
+
+And the reason you need to do the "review process" part currently,
+is because you are currently an packager in training, something
+every new Mageia maintainer has has to go through in order to
+learn about Mageia packaging rules and best practices...
+
+When your packaging mentor consider you to be ready, he will
+request that we promote your account to full packager status
+wich means you will be able to submit packages yourself and
+maintain them according the the policys we have in place.
+
+--
+Thomas
+
+
+