[Mageia-discuss] Contributing Howto : need help

Sun Feb 13 20:15:52 CET 2011

Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+>
+> 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
+
+ok :)
+-- 
+André
+