[Mageia-discuss] Team Membership Query

Sun Feb 26 08:34:18 CET 2012

Kevin R. Bulgrien a écrit :
+> I am a long time Mandrake/Mandriva user (since Mandrake 7.1).  I have a lot of
+> experience with Mandriva system administration and use,  I even administer
+> Mandriva Enterprise Server systems for my engineering department at work
+> (though I am not on IT staff).
+>
+> I am starting to realize that Mandriva is no longer what I once valued.  It
+> seems like the community I knew as "Mandriva" is now named "Mageia", and the
+> demise of the Mandriva distribution as I grew to know it makes me think about
+> how to take more part in making sure it survives.
+>    
+
+That probably applies to most of us here.  Any contribution you are 
+willing to make is very welcome.
+
+> I'm a family, working man with young children. I support free, open source in
+> various capacities, but one would probably not call them prolific.  One more
+> visible contribution is via the http://sourceforge.net/projects/crossfire/
+> team.  I tend to work in spurts, and sometimes real life takes me away from
+> these side areas of interest.
+>
+> I tended to think that probably official distribution support teams were more
+> likely to want people that could consistently pour significant time into
+> things, but a #mageia-social / #mageia IRC user said that should not stop me
+> from looking into it further.
+>    
+
+As I understand it, all teams have contributors who aren't always available.
+The intensive contributors are much more noticeable, and essential to 
+Mageia, but every contributor is appreciated.
+
+> Are any team members interested in giving feedback about whether they see
+> benefit in incorporating light contributors or not?
+>
+> After looking over the teams, specifically it seems that the documentation
+> team and packaging teams could fit my core skills.  It occurs to me that the
+> documentation team might be more amenable to light contribution than a
+> packaging team, but I don't know.
+>    
+
+That is true.  A lot of little improvements could be made, just a few 
+minutes at a time.
+> Some challenges are that I am in the USA and it seems that meetings on IRC
+> tend to happen at a UTC time when I cannot participate.  I contribute to local
+> organizations on a weekly basis, so its not like this would be a primary time
+> contribution outside of often extended working hours.
+>    
+
+That does affect contributors not close to European time zones, but most 
+important contributions probably happen via the mailing lists.  We have 
+very intensive contributors in the Americas and eastern Asia.
+
+> I guess once I get a sense for whether it is reasonable to approach teams I
+> could go into more detail about what I can do.
+>
+> What do you (team leaders/members) think?  Do you appreciate all the help you
+> get,
+
+I can't speak for everyone, but I think that most if not all teams would 
+say YES.
+
+>   or do you need more of the kind of resource where you can make regular,
+> specific sorts of assignments that get done promptly.  Do you expect team
+> members to be ready to work anytime, or do teams have things to do that can
+> sustain more flexibility?
+>    
+
+Regular contribution is more important for teams like the bug squad, for 
+example, but even there occasional contributors are appreciated.
+
+So welcome abord and don't hesitate to contribute where you feel useful :)
+> kbulgrien on IRC
+>
+>    
+-- 
+André
+
+