Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia ARM on Raspberry Pi
Did it work under QEMU with ARM emulation? - Original message - > 'Twas brillig, and Armando B. at 26/06/12 17:45 did gyre and gimble: > > Hi all :) > > > > from 2/3 weeks should arrive my raspberry pi, so i'm available to > > perform tests with Mageia Arm porting. > > I saw that there is a specific mirror here > > http://packages.rtp-net.org/mageia/ > > > > is there a most recent repository ? > > i saw that this repo missing of some packages. > > > > Could we try to build Mageia 2 ARM for Raspberry ? > > Mine arrived yesterday so I'd be interested in seeing progress here too. > Not sure when I'll find time to actually play with the thing tho'!!! > > COl > > > -- > > Colin Guthrie > colin(at)mageia.org > http://colin.guthr.ie/ > > Day Job: > Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ > Open Source: > Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ > PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ > Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/ > >
Re: [Mageia-dev] mentors + apprentices
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Robert Wood wrote: > I am [hopefully] now going to have a bit more spare time as my workload is > starting to lessen and it would be worth sorting out a mentor for me. I am > in the UK. > > Rob > > > On 14/06/12 06:41, Simple w wrote: > >> 2012/6/13 Anne Nicolas: >> >>> >>> Hi :) Im not understanding how this goes, who should i contact to know who can mentor me? I see that Sandro proposed to mentor and also Shlomi Fish said that could also do it but i havent received any mail in my account saying that the mentoring process has started, or its me who needs to do something? >>> >>> >>> Mentoring is based on volunteers and their free time. So be patient >>> >> >> I have all bumblebee (its dependencies) all packaged, i did asked >> Anssi sometime ago to check them, and he did but there were some >> changes to do. >> Meanwhile i have updated the packages so i ask if someone could review >> them. >> >> regards, Pedro >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> http://mageia.org >>> >> >> Hey Sandro, I looked as some packages that have no maintainer and I think uDev and Wine are some technologies that have fascinated me in Linux. I would like to take one of them over. What do you think? BTW, if you are too busy at this time I can always wait or look for another mentor to help me out if you say so. So far I have seen the good intention that you want to mentor but you haven't had the time to even say 'hi'. //Agron
Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia mentor
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Abdulrahman alattawy < abdul.alatt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Selimaj, I would like you to mentor be to become a packager. I am a > linux user since 2008. I love Linux and I want to help and contribute time > to help this great project. I use Centos 6.2, 5.8 and I have several ubuntu > boxes. I am also a C/C++, Python programmer. I saw the Magiea linux on > distrowatch and I knew that it's a new project so I decided to help the > project to move forward. > Sincerely, > Abdulrahman Alotaibi > I am flattered Mr. Alattawy. Unfortunately I am an apprentice and I haven't started anything yet. My mentor is *kharec* - Sandro CAZZANIGA. Mentors are on PINK rows, and apprentices are on WHITE rows. If you look at this page https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager#Packaging_apprentice_candidates, you have to put your name in the table under the *Packaging apprentice candidates *heading. You have to edit the page. //Agron
Re: [Mageia-dev] Wine MONO/Gecko
Frank, just because this mailing list is of a high volume I'd recomended filing a bug anyway. //Agron - Original message - > (saying this with trepidation, since I've been away for awhile) > > In the last day or so, Wine is back to complaining that it can't find a > Gecko package for displaying help files. In a new twist, it is also > complaining about not being able to find a MONO package for .NET support. > > This was happening several months back (in the Gecko case), and IIRC had > to do either with an outdated wine-gecko package or a 32/64-bit package > mismatch. I believe Thierry was the one who put it right at that time. > > The Gecko issue, and now the MONO issue, should probably be tied to Wine > by a formal Requires to keep this from reoccurring. If some > Wine-knowledgeable person can confirm what's happening, I'll be happy to > enter a bug report.
Re: [Mageia-dev] mentors + apprentices
Hey Sandro, I noticed you have become my mentor. I was impatiently waiting to get started. //Agron On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 04:26:20 -0400 > andre999 wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > Since my last post, we have 2 new apprentice candidates looking for a > mentor. > > > > simplew (Pedro), who is a longtime user of various rpm-based distros, is > most > > interested in Gnome and KDE packages. As you have probably noticed, he > has > > already been struggling with packaging on his own. His languages are > en, pt, > > and es. > > > > agron (Agron Selimaj), an mdv powerpack user since 2006, has skills in > C++, > > debugging, patch review, and rpm building, and is interested in focusing > on > > essential packages. > > > > Others have expressed interest in becoming packagers, but I have yet to > confirm > > their interest. > > > > You can find more details at: > > > https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager#Packager_apprentice_candidates > > > > Mentors, let me know who you take on, and I'll update the tables for you. > > And if you feel that you can take on another apprentice, don't hesitate > to post > > to this thread. > > I'm willing to take on another apprentice as long as they can speak > English or > Hebrew. > > Regards, > >Shlomi Fish > > -- > - > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > Understand what Open Source is - http://shlom.in/oss-fs > > No one knows all of Perl. Not even Larry Wall. Except Chuck Norris, who > knows > all of Perl 5, Perl 6, and can answer questions about the design of Perl 7. > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . >
Re: [Mageia-dev] mentors + apprentices
Yay! :) On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:52 AM, Sandro CAZZANIGA wrote: > > Le 5 juin 2012 10:26, "andre999" a écrit : > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > Since my last post, we have 2 new apprentice candidates looking for a > mentor. > > > > simplew (Pedro), who is a longtime user of various rpm-based distros, is > most interested in Gnome and KDE packages. As you have probably noticed, > he has already been struggling with packaging on his own. His languages > are en, pt, and es. > > > > agron (Agron Selimaj), an mdv powerpack user since 2006, has skills in > C++, debugging, patch review, and rpm building, and is interested in > focusing on essential packages. > > > I can mentored this guys, i think. > > Others have expressed interest in becoming packagers, but I have yet to > confirm their interest. > > > > You can find more details at: > > > https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager#Packager_apprentice_candidates > > > > Mentors, let me know who you take on, and I'll update the tables for you. > > And if you feel that you can take on another apprentice, don't hesitate > to post to this thread. > > > > Thanks :-) > > > > > > > > Anyone else looking for a mentor, let me know so I can add your name as > an apprentice candidate -- or you can do it yourself. > > > https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager#Packager_apprentice_candidates > > > > See also the previous sections, on becoming a Mageia packager : > > > https://wiki.mageia.org/mw-en/index.php?title=Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager&action=submit#What_is_needed_to_become_a_Mageia_packager > > > > To find a mentor, it helps to also post to this list (mageia-dev), or > hang out on IRC at freenode #mageia-mentoring. > > Don't forget that if you contact a mentor directly, they know that you > are actively interested. > > > > Regards :-) > > > > -- > > André > > (Packager mentoring program coordinator) > > > > > > > > > >
Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] radeon firmware in non-free
Hi, I can see two objectives here. First objective is to have a high installation success rate. And second objective is to have happy users from both camps; the GNU-purists-camp and the don't-care-camp. I think the GNU-purists-camp is a minority here, but I could be wrong, I never counted them. For them I would make a pure installation DVDs of all editions, like Desktop, Server, Live, etc. I bet all purists are expert Linux users and they know enough about their hardware and if there are GNU drivers for it. On the other hand, the don't-care-camp needs stuff that works. They don't care where it comes from, and they never read the messages. They just click through. For them I would make a mixed DVD with pre-selected components that have higher success rate. For example, if we know that non-free radeon drivers install better than the free ones, don't ask the user at all just go ahead and install the non-free version. This way, we are making the users choose early way before they start installing. I would also call those editions like this: 1g) Mageia 3 Server (G) Installation DVD i686 - Includes GNU drivers 1v) Mageia 3 Server (V) Installation DVD i686 - Includes Vendor drivers We would also say "If you don't know which to choose, go for Vendor editions" I think providing free and non-free installation media will increase Mageia's quality and reputation. But, everything must be in a single DVD because there are laptops, servers, and desktops with Broadcom PHY's and they can't get supplemental DVD's or packages without a working network card or wifi. Putting them all together in a single non-free DVD will increase the installation success rate for sure. And at last let me introduce my self. My name is Agron Selimaj. I am an experienced Linux user and programmer. I have 11 years of Linux experience and I am a Mandriva Powerpack user since 2006 or 2007. I am a professional C++ programmer for Windows, Linux embedded and Linux Desktops at my day job. I like the spirit of Mageia creators and I would like to join you. At the moment, I am an apprentice candidate waiting for a mentor to guide me through package creation process, bug fixing, etc. //Agron On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Angelo Naselli wrote: > mercoledì 30 maggio 2012 alle 16:38, Johnny A. Solbu ha scritto: > > On Wednesday 30 May 2012 16:20, Angelo Naselli wrote: > > > If you really mean that you should also remove non-free repositories > etc... > > > I don't think being a don Quijote is that good... always imho of > course. > > > > They do exactly that. They do not have any non-free repo. They have a > policy that do not allow any non-free software (programs, drivers, firmware > etc.) in their distributions, and they don't have any exceptions. > > Some might find this silly and stupid. But they live by the rule that > every software should be Free. If it is not, they will not use it because > they can't do what they want with it. > > > > My point is just that there really do exist several distributions that > do not allow any non-free software in their repositories. if they don't > have any non-free software there is no point in having an empty non-free > repo. The way Thierry listed the two categories he seemed to suggest that > there where no such distributions. > > That's sounds different of course, i thought you referred to us ;) > >
