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

2010-10-18 Thread Sinner from the Prairy
Florian Hubold wrote: Hate to do that, but could we please focus on the topic of the thread and not dream about the next best thing in operating systems? We should focus on getting our base cleaned up, and to get a stable and good quality release out the door, This should be our top priority,

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

2010-10-14 Thread Sinner from the Prairy
Marc Paré wrote: Thanks for posting the site Tux99. There was talk of more user groups doing the poll/survey. Does anyone know if this is being done? Great data for the devs to consider. Marc This in the Spanish-speaking Mandriva community BlogDrake:

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

2010-10-14 Thread Sinner from the Prairy
Tux99 wrote: Quote: Ahmad Samir wrote on Thu, 14 October 2010 16:00 Enabling them by default defies the purpose of having backports at all; it's not for new users, it's more for slightly experienced users or power users who want the latest versions of apps. That's exactly the crucial bit

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

2010-10-14 Thread Sinner from the Prairy
Tux99 wrote: I guess the old rule of polls applies: depending on how you formulate the poll question and the description of the options you can hugely influence the results... This is so true. I follow the politics blog FiveThirtyEight (warning! statistics nerd alert activated!) and again

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

2010-10-13 Thread Sinner from the Prairy
Fernando Parra wrote: (Finally, it would not be as strict versions of certain components. If, for example morning out mageia 2010 (for instance) and the day after Firefox 4.0 comes out, you do not run the 3.6.x version with all the time,) That's very clear, these users are trying to say:

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

2010-10-13 Thread Sinner from the Prairy
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: It's easy to communicate, it's easy to implement fitting even those dumb users some people are talking about. Yesterday I installed the new Ubuntu 10.10, a window opened near the end of the installation process telling me that my hardware may need/use a non-free driver

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

2010-10-13 Thread Sinner from the Prairy
Michael Scherer wrote: So I assume that you volunteer to find another Tier 1 mirror to replace ibiblio.org ? I'm pretty sure ibiblio.org will host Mageia mirror. Salut, Sinner

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

2010-10-06 Thread Sinner from the Prairy
Raphaël Jadot wrote: 2010/10/6 Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanraes-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org: This is non-sensical; i will never choose Centos for a server, if i was to have a bug, where would i go with it??? http://www.centos.org/ click on support :) If you need

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

2010-10-05 Thread Sinner from the Prairy
Juan Luis Baptiste wrote: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Fernando Parra gato2...@yahoo.com.mx wrote: A different approach could be a light rolling distro, let me explain. A distro with a selected number of programs updated regular as their new versions are available. That's what

Re: [Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

2010-10-05 Thread Sinner from the Prairy
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: 2010/10/2 Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org: So I say no to this idea. Asking useless questions just add burden to the user. People that have a preferred browser know how to install it, those that don't do not care enough. Reasonable. Can also be applied to other such

Re: [Mageia-dev] I would like to help...

2010-09-28 Thread Sinner from the Prairy
Jorge Félez wrote: Hello I would like to help with spanish translation, testing the 64 or 32 bits desktop edition and maybe making some packages. Please let me know how can I help this new community :) Hi Jorge! Please join the wiki at http://www.mageia.org/wiki/ and the translating team