Re: [Mageia-dev] Missing packages in Mageia 1. How to backport?

Ahmad Samir a écrit : On 10 June 2011 13:44, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: 2011/6/10 Michael Scherer: We have used backports in the past for that, and I see no reason to change that. If the problem is that backports were too buggy in the past, then we should fix backports process, not bypassing t

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

Michael Scherer a écrit : Le samedi 18 juin 2011 à 03:38 -0400, andre999 a écrit : Michael Scherer a écrit : Proposal 1: 6 months release cycle -> 12 months life cycle ( Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva< 2010.1&& Mandriva != 2006.0 ) Proposal 2: 9 months release cycle -> 18 months life cycle

Re: [Mageia-dev] "Job offer" : mentoring program coordinator

magnus a écrit : Congratulation andre999 for the job from me too. I think we will grow together to a good three-man band. Thanks Magnus. I think we could make a good team. The team gets the success. For the work and the trouble the mentoring program coordinator is responsible :-) That's

Re: [Mageia-dev] "Job offer" : mentoring program coordinator

Daniel Kreuter a écrit : On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Samuel Verschelde mailto:sto...@laposte.net>> wrote: Le dimanche 12 juin 2011 15:27:59, Samuel Verschelde a écrit : ... The 2 candidates were good, which complicated my task because I had to make a choice, but I finally

[Mageia-dev] upgrade fontforge

If nobody opposes I am going to upgrade fontforge to 201122. Lilypond requires it. -- Thomas

Re: [Mageia-dev] "Job offer" : mentoring program coordinator

Samuel Verschelde a écrit : Le dimanche 12 juin 2011 15:27:59, Samuel Verschelde a écrit : Hello to everyone, ... During a packagers weekly meeting, misc invited us to read the following article about mentoring programs in open-source projects: http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2011/05/31/effectiv

Re: [Mageia-dev] "Job offer" : mentoring program coordinator

Congratulation andre999 for the job from me too. I think we will grow together to a good three-man band. The team gets the success. For the work and the trouble the mentoring program coordinator is responsible :-) Magnus >

Re: [Mageia-dev] Missing packages in Mageia 1. How to backport? (was: Finalizing update process)

So, is there a consensus about this yet? (note that the backports list of packages keeps growing in the mean time :)). -- Ahmad Samir

Re: [Mageia-dev] Finalizing update process

On 15 June 2011 22:32, Stew Benedict wrote: > On 06/15/2011 09:22 AM, Stew Benedict wrote: >> >> On 06/15/2011 08:50 AM, Dexter Morgan wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Thomas Backlund  wrote: BTW, should we have a read-only security/update-announce ml that where we >>

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

Le samedi 18 juin 2011 à 03:38 -0400, andre999 a écrit : > Michael Scherer a écrit : > > > Proposal 1: > > 6 months release cycle -> 12 months life cycle > > ( Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva< 2010.1&& Mandriva != 2006.0 ) > > > > Proposal 2: > > 9 months release cycle -> 18 months life cycle > > ( ~

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion - messages from the forum

Op zaterdag 18 juni 2011 15:59:33 schreef Michael Scherer: > Le samedi 18 juin 2011 à 13:42 +0200, Maarten Vanraes a écrit : > > Op zaterdag 18 juni 2011 13:35:34 schreef Samuel Verschelde: > > > Le samedi 18 juin 2011 13:19:16, Michael Scherer a écrit : > > > > Le samedi 18 juin 2011 à 12:12 +0200

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion - messages from the forum

Le samedi 18 juin 2011 à 13:42 +0200, Maarten Vanraes a écrit : > Op zaterdag 18 juni 2011 13:35:34 schreef Samuel Verschelde: > > Le samedi 18 juin 2011 13:19:16, Michael Scherer a écrit : > > > Le samedi 18 juin 2011 à 12:12 +0200, lebarhon a écrit : > > > > > > 1) can you please avoid posting a

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion - messages from the forum

Le samedi 18 juin 2011 à 13:35 +0200, Samuel Verschelde a écrit : > Le samedi 18 juin 2011 13:19:16, Michael Scherer a écrit : > > Le samedi 18 juin 2011 à 12:12 +0200, lebarhon a écrit : > > > > 1) can you please avoid posting as html to the list ? > > > > 2) if you wish to serve as a human gate

Re: [Mageia-dev] "Job offer" : mentoring program coordinator

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Samuel Verschelde wrote: > Le dimanche 12 juin 2011 15:27:59, Samuel Verschelde a écrit : > > Hello to everyone, > > > > I'm sure there's someone among you who wants to help Mageia but hasn't > > found yet the good way to do it. Today is your lucky day, because the

Re: [Mageia-dev] "Job offer" : mentoring program coordinator

Le dimanche 12 juin 2011 15:27:59, Samuel Verschelde a écrit : > Hello to everyone, > > I'm sure there's someone among you who wants to help Mageia but hasn't > found yet the good way to do it. Today is your lucky day, because there's > a job that's available and can be really useful and interesti

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion - messages from the forum

Op zaterdag 18 juni 2011 13:35:34 schreef Samuel Verschelde: > Le samedi 18 juin 2011 13:19:16, Michael Scherer a écrit : > > Le samedi 18 juin 2011 à 12:12 +0200, lebarhon a écrit : > > > > 1) can you please avoid posting as html to the list ? > > > > 2) if you wish to serve as a human gateway r

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion - messages from the forum

Le samedi 18 juin 2011 13:19:16, Michael Scherer a écrit : > Le samedi 18 juin 2011 à 12:12 +0200, lebarhon a écrit : > > 1) can you please avoid posting as html to the list ? > > 2) if you wish to serve as a human gateway really between forum and ml > ( which I didn't ask, I am smart enough to r

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion - messages from the forum

Le samedi 18 juin 2011 à 12:12 +0200, lebarhon a écrit : 1) can you please avoid posting as html to the list ? 2) if you wish to serve as a human gateway really between forum and ml ( which I didn't ask, I am smart enough to read forum by myself, as I helped install them among others ), can you

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion - messages from the forum

by *keksbaecker * » Jun 18th, '11, 11:07 I am also just a simple end user and for me it is more important to have a stable and running System than having the the latest Desktop Environment installed. Personally I think a new

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion - messages from the forum

by wobo » Jun 18th, '11, 00:54 magnus wrote:(In the past ELP had a song "Lucky man") Most people forget that Lucky Man became worm fodder at the end of the song. But you can always enter the Zeppelin and take the Stairway

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion - messages from the forum

by magnus » Jun 17th, '11, 20:55 isadora wrote:Today i started adding the cauldron-repositories, and did a first update to my test-Mageia. Today I have done the same job. about 20 minutes - good internet connection an

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion - messages from the forum

by *isadora * » Jun 17th, '11, 20:04 Must admit magnus is right about the difference between "technical" and "regular"-users. Today i started adding the cauldron-repositories, and did a first update to my test-Mageia. The first

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 08:16:53 + Dick Gevers wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:43:57 +0200, Samuel Verschelde wrote about Re: > [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion: > > >Thanks for the fame :) Do you know how I could easily have an institute > >named after me ? > > With the met

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:43:57 +0200, Samuel Verschelde wrote about Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion: >Thanks for the fame :) Do you know how I could easily have an institute >named after me ? With the meteorlogical service of a windy nation (small island group for instance

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

Michael Scherer a écrit : Proposal 1: 6 months release cycle -> 12 months life cycle ( Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva< 2010.1&& Mandriva != 2006.0 ) Proposal 2: 9 months release cycle -> 18 months life cycle ( ~ opensuse and the one we used for Mageia 1 ) Proposal 3: 12 months release cycle ->