[Mageia-discuss] How about launching "Mageia working parties"?

Tue Oct 12 10:54:37 CEST 2010

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:17, Juergen Harms <Juergen.Harms at unige.ch> wrote:
+> [...]
+
+That's an excellent point that indeed, complements teams, for
+cross-displinary works and experiments.
+
+> Some embroidery around how such working parties might work:
+> - their principal aim should be to work out concepts / proposals that
+> improve the end-user value of Mageia;
+> - their work should be complementary to what the established Mageia
+> structures do (Mageia teams, the cooker-follow-up, etc);
+> - they should be self-organised (off-load work from the established
+> structures; in one extreme using a private mailing list for communication,
+> in the other extreme use a temporarily maintained sub-forum)
+> - they should work under the umbrella of Mageia (the work should in relation
+> to topics raised in Mageia mailing lists and forums, Mageia should be kept
+> informed; Mageia might formulate some general guidelines to be respected in
+> order to accept the working party under the label of Mageia).
+
+So that would be coordinated by/reported to the Mageia Council then.
+
+There needs to be some sort of formal designation (to know who is
+working with whom and on what) as well as progress/final reporting and
+archives of discussions or results. But that's something to iron out
+of practice.
+
+Would be good/obvious for Mageia.org to provide tools for that, but
+indeed, letting these groups experiment with unused, outside tools is
+a good opportunity as well.
+
+As for the "Install from Windows" thing, that could be a start, but
+(these are general points anyway):
+ - before, or while building this work group, you have to assess the
+value of having an Linux installer from Windows; that is, goal is not
+to make a "me too" installer; goal is to understand why/if there needs
+to be a Linux installer from Windows in the first place and if there
+is a user-benefit of having one on the large scale and in the user
+flow (that is, as several pointed out in the thread, isn't this more
+like a "fast" answer to a problem that has not been thought deeply
+enough?) => in short, what problem does this solve? is it really the
+problem? is it really a good solution?
+ - for instance, is it to fully replace the system? dual boot? user to
+decide? will the user be properly reassured about the process, her
+data and really understand what is going to happen?
+ - note that this is not to discourage, it's to test the idea;
+moreover, there can be other benefits from working on a Windows-based
+Linux installer (if ever): knowledge, inter-systems operatins, doc,
+skills;
+ - volunteers should spec this (a short one will do), what they expect
+to demonstrate as a proof-of-concept (working program, user flow
+project), build the work group (for instance here, will likely need a
+Windows system developer at least), focus and then go ahead.
+
+
+
+Romain
+