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

2010-10-20 Thread andré
Ahmad Samir a écrit : On 16 October 2010 17:31, Marc Parém...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 2010-10-16 02:56, Luca Berra a écrit : On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:00:14PM -0500, Fernando Parra wrote: The basic/novice user doesn't read anything, remove basic/novice from the sentence

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

2010-10-20 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2010/10/20 Robert Xu rob...@gmail.com: Maybe you could modify it to give a personal UUID for each computer, so that the user is not forced to register? OMG! I would have gathered at least 10 UUIDs over the last 2 years. Depends on what piece of hardware you want to attach the UUID to :)

[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure

2010-10-20 Thread Olivier Thauvin
Hi, You can find here: http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/ the current mirror tree proposal. We now have to discuss it, I think. Here notes: The 'mageia_timestamp' is a file updated on the main server every 5 minutes. It allow to check is a mirror synced or not Comparing to

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure

2010-10-20 Thread Tux99
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Olivier Thauvin wrote: Hi, You can find here: http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/ the current mirror tree proposal. We now have to discuss it, I think. Looks great to me and I agree with all points you made in your email. I especially like the

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure

2010-10-20 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2010/10/20 Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com: I read the FM but I thought it may be outdated because it was written almost 3 weeks before this new information about the tree structure was posted. 3 weeks in this stage means a long time If the readme is showing realistic numbers

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

2010-10-20 Thread Tux99
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Robert Xu wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:25, Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote: 2010/10/20 Robert Xu rob...@gmail.com: Maybe you could modify it to give a personal UUID for each computer, so that the user is not forced to register? OMG! I would

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

2010-10-20 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2010/10/20 Robert Xu rob...@gmail.com: Maybe one month every year you refresh the UUIDs by having the software send their UUID? That way any inactive UUIDs could be deleted. Sorry, but still this seems like a monster. BTW: how do you want to deal with non-Mageia and non-Linux machines from

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

2010-10-20 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2010/10/20 Gustavo Giampaoli giampaoli.gust...@gmail.com: 2010/10/20 Tux99 tux99-...@uridium.org: I hope you are not serious about this. Creepy unique identifiers (or any other tracking method) have absolutely no place in a FOSS community OS. Only if the default option is NOT enabled and

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure

2010-10-20 Thread Olivier Thauvin
* Lombard Marianne (maria...@tuxette.fr) wrote: Le 20/10/2010 18:34, Olivier Thauvin a écrit : Hi, You can find here: http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/ the current mirror tree proposal. We now have to discuss it, I think. Here notes: The

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure

2010-10-20 Thread Olivier Thauvin
* Remy CLOUARD (shikam...@mandriva.org) wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 06:34:24PM +0200, Olivier Thauvin wrote: Hi, The peoples/ directory is dedicated to contributors and must allow anyone to share files related to the distribution (testing rpms, preworks) in an unofficial ways. How

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure

2010-10-20 Thread Olivier Thauvin
* Wolfgang Bornath (molc...@googlemail.com) wrote: 2010/10/21 Olivier Thauvin nanar...@nanardon.zarb.org: I am not sure our mirror will reach 700MB but sice the current cooker tree is near of 80Go (w/o iso), and if I take as base 2 release per year, then I obtain 700GB in three years.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure

2010-10-20 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2010/10/21 Olivier Thauvin nanar...@nanardon.zarb.org: I am waiting the release cycle to be defined to know how much space we'll need. If we choose to do only one release per year, the 700GB size will occur only in 6 years. And if we don't import all rpms for mandriva the size need will be

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

2010-10-20 Thread Robert Xu
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 17:30, Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote: 2010/10/20 Gustavo Giampaoli giampaoli.gust...@gmail.com: 2010/10/20 Tux99 tux99-...@uridium.org: I hope you are not serious about this. Creepy unique identifiers (or any other tracking method) have absolutely no

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

2010-10-20 Thread andré
Tux99 a écrit : Quote: Ahmad Samir wrote on Thu, 14 October 2010 16:00 I've seen, too many times, trigger-happy packagers backporting packages that're not maintained by them (so they know it less than those package maintainer(s)), breaking those packages and annoying the maintainers of

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

2010-10-20 Thread andré
Fernando Parra a écrit : On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 01:44:29 +0200 Michael Scherermisc-qfijtcdg...@public.gmane.org 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