[Mageia-discuss] Contributing Howto : need help

[Samuel Verschelde]

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