Re: [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

2010-10-17 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:15:30 -0400, Fernando Parra wrote: Well the ball is on the air. The Mageia Server should be a Rolling Ligth distro, yes or no? The problem I've experienced with the current Mandriva release cycle is with one friend, who has a slow system. It took 13 hours to go from

Re: [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

2010-10-17 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 17 October 2010 09:56, David W. Hodgins wrote: > On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:15:30 -0400, Fernando Parra > wrote: > > >> Well the ball is on the air. The Mageia Server should be a Rolling Ligth >> distro, yes or no? > > The problem I've experienced with the current Mandriva release cycle > is with

Re: [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

2010-10-17 Thread Tux99
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, David W. Hodgins wrote: > I know enough c, perl, python, etc., that I can sometimes figure out > where the problem is, (when submitting bug reports), but I don't know > enough to put together rpm packages, or where to start, to learn how > to do so. Making rpm packages is act

Re: [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

2010-10-17 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-17 04:34, Tux99 a écrit : On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, David W. Hodgins wrote: I know enough c, perl, python, etc., that I can sometimes figure out where the problem is, (when submitting bug reports), but I don't know enough to put together rpm packages, or where to start, to learn how to do

Re: [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

2010-10-17 Thread atilla ontas
Hi. If you interested, Mandriva Turkiye Community poll ended about release cycle. Here are the results: *Exactly as Mandriva, 6 months release cycle 18.2% *Like OpenSuse, 8-9 months release cycle 13.6% *One release a year 31.8% * 6 months cycle for core, rolling release model other for othe

Re: [Mageia-dev] Q: how long should we able to upgrade from?

2010-10-17 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 16 octobre 2010 à 13:33 +0200, Luca Berra a écrit : > short explanation: > I maintain some package that has multiple spec and initscript hacks to > allow upgrading since 2005LE to current cooker (i.e. postfix). I really > believe it is too far and that some should be pruned. > The questio

Re: [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

2010-10-17 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 15 octobre 2010 à 22:00 -0500, Fernando Parra a écrit : I am just coming back from my weekend, so I may have missed lots of discussion, but there is 2 points in your mail that I really wanted to address. > The basic/novice user doesn't read anything, doesn't request anything > to som

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions, firmware etc

2010-10-17 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 15 octobre 2010 à 07:43 +0200, Olivier Méjean a écrit : > Le vendredi 15 octobre 2010 01:18:37, Michael scherer a écrit : > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 09:57:03PM +0200, Olivier Méjean wrote: > > > then French law is the law we have to consider for Mageia. Debian runs > > > under SPI orga

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions, firmware etc

2010-10-17 Thread Olivier Thauvin
* Olivier Méjean (omej...@yahoo.fr) wrote: > So is Mageia a community project or not ? > Then when we will talk about Marketing stuff we will follow only marketing > group opinions ? > > Of course their views count, but there is a difference between the > responsability of Mageia association tha

Re: [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

2010-10-17 Thread Fernando Parra
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 01:01:27 -0400 andré wrote: > With Mandriva and thus initially Mageia, often one only has to select > the new version, and the old version is automatically removed. > Otherwise the old version can be removed later. So we already have it > easier :) I agree, our way is

Re: [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

2010-10-17 Thread Fernando Parra
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 01:44:29 +0200 Michael Scherer wrote: > I do not think I am ok to be counted in the "we" you use. I do not think > I want, nor that I will even try to get a considerable number of new > users, I want a sustainable number of users that can be properly taught > of free software

Re: [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

2010-10-17 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-17 19:44, Michael Scherer a écrit : Le vendredi 15 octobre 2010 à 22:00 -0500, Fernando Parra a écrit : I am just coming back from my weekend, so I may have missed lots of discussion, but there is 2 points in your mail that I really wanted to address. The basic/novice user doesn't r

Re: [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

2010-10-17 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-17 15:28, atilla ontas a écrit : Hi. If you interested, Mandriva Turkiye Community poll ended about release cycle. Here are the results: *Exactly as Mandriva, 6 months release cycle 18.2% *Like OpenSuse, 8-9 months release cycle 13.6% *One release a year 31.8% * 6 months cycle

Re: [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

2010-10-17 Thread atilla ontas
2010/10/18 Marc Paré : > > Hi Atilla: > > Thanks for reporting back to the mailist with the poll results.Did you find > that users were well informed of a "rolling release model"? > > Marc > > Yes. They know what is a rolling release model. Most of them also use Arch Linux or try to get Arch on th