[Mageia-discuss] Contributing Howto : need help

Thu Feb 10 23:09:45 CET 2011

Le jeudi 10 février 2011 18:53:55, andre999 a écrit :
+> 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_contrib
+> >>> ue 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.)
+
+I just created the page : http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=contribute
+
+Still hoping for a courageous volunteer to do the work for me :)
+
+Samuel
+