[Mageia-discuss] Contributing Howto : need help

Thu Feb 10 18:53:55 CET 2011

Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+>
+>
+> Le jeudi 10 février 2011 03:06:19, Marek Laane a écrit :
+>> 2011/2/10 Thomas Lottmann<skiperdrake at gmail.com>
+>>
+>>> Le 09/02/2011 21:22, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+>>>> Le mercredi 9 février 2011 21:20:13, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+>>>>> Hi,
+>>>>>
+>>>>> I was given the task to write a contributing howto, so that we could
+>>>>> link to it from the alpha download page (and from other pages if
+>>>>> considered useful).
+>>>>>
+>>>>> However, I'm sure I can delegate this task so that I can keep working
+>>>>> on other matters.
+>>>>>
+>>>>> That's why I'm sending this to the mailing list : what should we say in
+>>>>> this page, what layout, etc. ? If someone wants to propose a detailed
+>>>>> outline for such a page that we could discuss, it would greatly help !
+>>>>>
+>>>>> Thanks in advance.
+>>>>>
+>>>>> Regards
+>>>>>
+>>>>> Samuel
+>>>>
+>>>> I forgot to say what was implicit for me but could have to be precised :
+>>>> this
+>>>> is meant to be the starting point for people wanting to help, whatever
+>>>> their
+>>>> skills. The goal is probably to explain what kind of help people can
+>>>> give, then explain how they can give this help once they have chosen one
+>>>> or several
+>>>> areas of interest.
+>>>>
+>>>> Samuel
+>>>
+>>> I have started to work on this on the Mandriva wiki, still in french, and
+>>> I could not finish it yet in french. But the basics are there. Perhaps we
+>>> could use this in the next wiki for Mageia and complete it for every
+>>> language.
+>>>
+>>> http://wiki.mandriva.com/fr/Les_diff%C3%A9rentes_fa%C3%A7ons_de_contribue
+>>> r
+>>>
+>>> Thomas.
+>>
+>> A good template may also be GNOME's site http://live.gnome.org/JoinGnome.
+>>   It seems to cover all possible themes shortly and mattef-of-factly,
+>>   though, of course, content could and should be different. OTOH Mandriva's
+>>   site is visually more attractive.
+>>
+>
+> Would someone want to start a quick "how to contribute" page (which can be
+> refined later) so that we have something for alpha release, so ideally before
+> the end of this week-end ?
+>
+> Samuel
+
+I took a quick look at Thomas' page and it is quite impressive.  No 
+doubt it could be improved/elaborated somewhat, but translated in its 
+present form (with references to Mandriva replaced by Mageia, of course) 
+would make an excellent contribution for the alpha release.
+(Since the alpha is basically a test, it doesn't have to be perfect.)
+(A plus is we will already have a version in french as well.)
+
+-- 
+André
+