2011/6/13 Lee Forest <[email protected]> > I like the idea of releasing when ready. Its done when the team thinks its > ready and not because its being demanded by end users. In Linux Mint this > does alot of good because of having to clean up after ubuntu so much. The > releases are much more stable and polished. The way clement lefabre likes > it. And everyone who uses it is usually satisfied with the end product. > Well this is theway it seems we are going to, some people proposing 9 months release depending on release dates of main softwares. Anyway whatever the choice, it's obvious that we will not release final one if this is not stable enough.
> As for being in the news more, we dont have to put out a release just to be > able blog about whats going on in the mageia community and remind everyone > why mageia is special. But this must be the case because theres rarely any > new news posted in mageia blog unless a release is coming out. Thats getting > about as lame as these messages in this mailing list telling people they > sent their message to the mailing list wrong. > What is this distro really about? One upping mandriva and following the > same mechanical routines they did to piss you guys off, or building a real > community distribution of gnu/linux that cares more about keeping in touch > with the community than they do about the way someone new sent a mailing > list message. Theres more to a linux community then mailing lists. > At first I was excited about using mageia, and being a part of the > community. Now im dissappointed because I see how you treat people that are > not on the team. Basically like their opinions > Not at all. everyone can subscribe mailing- lists. The point is Mageia is a young project and we cannot afford for now at least to spread efforts on forums and mailing-lists and blogs... People still sleep during the night. It may not be perfect but it's a start. Our points is just to try to get all opinions in a same place, that's all. > (that you ask for) dont matter, and you are only concerned with the proper > submission of mailing lists messages. Get someone on the blogs and start > talking to the rest of the community the way they deserve. I agree with the > gentleman leaving the mailing list. This isn't worth sticking around for. > Time to remember why you started mageia in the first place. > Of course we are opened to any of your proposals and ideas and contributions to improve all this :) Cheers > On Jun 13, 2011 12:51 PM, "Ron" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I will say my part and I'm gone... > > I don't understand why everyone is acting like a rolling release is going > to put so much strain on the project. What is so hard about developing in > one place and allowing the updates to trickle down is so hard? > > It almost seems to me that you want to ask the opinion of people, but > don't want to hear. > > And what is this posting here? I don't even know how to use this thing > and yet I had to signup to get my voice heard because this is the way you > want to do things? I don't understand where the whole community fits into > this here right now, I think I actually say a lot when I say that many > people want a rolling release.... It just seems the developers will have the > way here... Why ask in the first place? Really? > > I am leaving the list and sorry about the HTML in my emails, must be a > yahoo thing because I did not use HTML... Again I don't know how to use this > thing and should not have been forced to. > > I would also say that I, for 1 will not be staying if you are going to do > a release cycle only... I have loads of options if I just want snapshots of > what's going on in the Linux world.... Arch gives me so much more and I had > hopes of switching to this with a release model that made sense... But it > seems we won't and we will just become yet another XXX release cycle > distribution with no clear anything that sets us apart from X. > > On you, I'm gone and thanks for hearing me and sorry if my postings were > done wrong.... > -- Anne http://www.mageia.org
