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

2010-10-06 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 6 October 2010 05:02, Fernando Parra gato2...@yahoo.com.mx wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:47:20 +0200 Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3891-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org wrote: On 5 October 2010 15:28, Tux99 tux99-mga-ju+53dptyrfafugrpc6...@public.gmane.org wrote: Personally I think

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

2010-10-06 Thread Raphaël Jadot
Le 6 octobre 2010 08:15, Raphaël Jadot ashledom...@hodo.fr a écrit : 2010/10/6 Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org: I do. I even update them more often. And you would be surprised to see that it doesn't create as much problem as you can think, if the sysadmin is competent enough. However many

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

2010-10-06 Thread Tux99
Quote: Michael Scherer wrote on Wed, 06 October 2010 05:07 Are you serious? Upgrading a server every 18 months? I do. I even update them more often. And you would be surprised to see that it doesn't create as much problem as you can think, if the sysadmin is competent enough. Well,

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

2010-10-06 Thread Sandro Cazzaniga
Le Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:33:02 +0200, Eatdirt dirt...@gmail.com a écrit : what do you think about no release cycle at all? Someone has answered this question yet. -- Sandro Cazzaniga Bashburn hacker (http://bashburn.dose.se/) Sympa hacker (http://www.sympa.org/) Mageia Contributor

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

2010-10-06 Thread Sandro Cazzaniga
Le Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:35:45 +0200, Eatdirt dirt...@gmail.com a écrit : I missed your post and spam the thread with the same suggestion... :-/ no soucy ;) -- Sandro Cazzaniga Bashburn hacker (http://bashburn.dose.se/) Sympa hacker (http://www.sympa.org/) Mageia Contributor

Re: [Mageia-dev] Various proposals around backports and other media management

2010-10-06 Thread Thomas Backlund
Michael Scherer skrev 6.10.2010 13:20: Le mardi 05 octobre 2010 à 23:06 +0100, Buchan Milne a écrit : As long as it doesn't take the focus off the development release. In Mandriva, I think there were some uploads to backports before the upload to cooker, which can cause problems for users

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

2010-10-06 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 6 October 2010 15:06, Buchan Milne bgmi...@multilinks.com wrote: If you disagree, run cooker for 6 months with 'urpmi --auto-update' in cron.daily. If you never have *any* issues, without any breakage at all, I might believe you. Hell, I did for 10.5 years. There weren't that much breakage

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

2010-10-06 Thread Eatdirt
On 06/10/10 15:09, Buchan Milne wrote: And if you need one specific new package, you will need to upgrade the majority of your distribution ... And it is only useful to 1% of the global population. We don't want the entire Mageia userbase to be almost identical to the number of people who

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

2010-10-06 Thread Raphaël Jadot
2010/10/6 Tux99 tux99-...@uridium.org: I can say for sure that the majority of 'normal' (non-geeks) users FEAR AND EVEN HATE distro upgrades, they just want to be able to install new versions of apps, not risky complete distro upgrades. I agree, even though all good reasons have been given

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?

2010-10-06 Thread Michael Scherer
Le mercredi 06 octobre 2010 à 16:55 +0200, Tux99 a écrit : Well, I don't think we will ever come to an agreement especially as it seems that former mdv devs here seem to be very reluctant to change anything about the release cycle. Well, the first step to a agreement is to explain clearly

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

2010-10-06 Thread Olivier Thauvin
* Buchan Milne (bgmi...@multilinks.com) wrote: On Tuesday, 5 October 2010 23:39:09 Tux99 wrote: On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, nicolas vigier wrote: 3) I mentioned earlier that the packager would need to use good judgement and not include major incompatible version changes You are aware that this

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

2010-10-06 Thread Michael Scherer
Le mercredi 06 octobre 2010 à 18:42 +0200, Olivier Thauvin a écrit : So, why not alternate both, 1 release with backports denied but long life, and the 2nd with backports and update but during a shorter period. (X.0 would be the new distro with backports, X.1 the one more servers oriented or

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

2010-10-06 Thread Olivier Thauvin
* R James (upsn...@gmail.com) wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org wrote: Le mercredi 06 octobre 2010 à 18:42 +0200, Olivier Thauvin a écrit : What is the typical deployment period for servers? At the company where I work, they're leased for 3 years. If

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

2010-10-06 Thread Renaud MICHEL
On mercredi 06 octobre 2010 at 17:02, Eatdirt wrote : If all pro around are against this, I think we should at least be able to upgrade a version directly from urpmi without the boot iso CD story! That has been possible for some years already, and I have done it a few times, although I think

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

2010-10-06 Thread Marc Paré
Personally as a future Mageia packager I will try to concentrate on making backports (apart from maintaining some specific packages) so in a way I will be helping to make Mageia in practice a sort of 'light' rolling distro as suggested by a few people in this thread. But I just want to say that

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

2010-10-06 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op woensdag 06 oktober 2010 16:55:48 schreef Tux99: Well, I don't think we will ever come to an agreement especially as it seems that former mdv devs here seem to be very reluctant to change anything about the release cycle. Personally as a future Mageia packager I will try to concentrate on

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

2010-10-06 Thread Cassian Braconnnier
Le 06/10/2010 20:31, Michael Scherer a écrit : Le mercredi 06 octobre 2010 à 14:55 -0300, Gustavo Giampaoli a écrit : So a one year release cycle with lots of app backports (and maybe a kernel backport mid-cycle if there is important new hardware support) is IMHO the best release cycle for

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

2010-10-06 Thread Dick Gevers
On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:02:59 +0200, Eatdirt wrote about Re: [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?: If all pro around are against this, I think we should at least be able to upgrade a version directly from urpmi without the boot iso CD story! I do that every year or so with my @home

Re: [Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

2010-10-06 Thread Marc Paré
Selecting an Education based install (which could be used with other software selections is what I had in mind. This could be called the Education software group (for want of a better name). Like that you don't need a special Education version, it's the same DVD for everyone. Of course, the

Re: [Mageia-dev] A new office suite ?

2010-10-06 Thread Florian Hubold
Am 29.09.2010 21:12, schrieb Ahmad Samir: On 29 September 2010 21:57, Michael Schererm...@zarb.org wrote: On Thursday 30 Sep 2010 05:42:48 André Salaün wrote: OpenOffice or LibreOffice for Mageia ? we can have both packages :) -- Michael Scherer Nooo! unless you want the guy

Re: [Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

2010-10-06 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:11 PM, andré and...@laposte.net wrote: So far in simplified terms, for the education target, we have focus on school boards in US/Canada and Australia/New Zealand; focus on regional gov'ts in Germany. Do you have a link to any Mandriva docs that detail how the package

Re: [Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

2010-10-06 Thread andré
Marc Paré a écrit : Usually the more the extensions you have the heavier/more-ram/more-startup-time firefox gets (and the last time I used AdBlock Plus, about 10 months ago, it leaked memory...). Also it's not useful all over, I think I can do without it if I have noscript installed, (now

Re: [Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

2010-10-06 Thread andré
Wolfgang Bornath a écrit : 2010/10/3 Marc Parém...@marcpare.com: Le 2010-10-03 05:10, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit : Who said we do have an education problem? I am not sure, I certainly did not say that there was a problem. You seem to be comfortable enough with it, and I don't

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

2010-10-06 Thread vfmBOFH
2010/10/1 atilla ontas tarakbu...@gmail.com I'm just wondering if we follow Mandriva's release cycle model. Every 6th months a release or one year and one release. I think we should make one release in one year. By doing so devs and translators won't be in rush in every 6 months. Also there

Re: [Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

2010-10-06 Thread andré
Hoyt Duff a écrit : On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:11 PM, andréand...@laposte.net wrote: So far in simplified terms, for the education target, we have focus on school boards in US/Canada and Australia/New Zealand; focus on regional gov'ts in Germany. Here I mean focus in terms of

Re: [Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

2010-10-06 Thread Nathan Wolf
My purposes for my computer is primarily for home office purposes with the occasional gaming. I would say that would be the typical target audience. Do you remember, years ago, how Mandriva had a kind of store where you could buy software, a one click installation system. Would it be

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

2010-10-06 Thread vfmBOFH
2010/10/7 Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com Le 2010-10-06 17:10, vfmBOFH a écrit : 2010/10/1 atilla ontas tarakbu...@gmail.com mailto:tarakbu...@gmail.com I'm just wondering if we follow Mandriva's release cycle model. Every 6th months a release or one year and one release. I think we

Re: [Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

2010-10-06 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-06 17:27, andré a écrit : Hoyt Duff a écrit : On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:11 PM, andréand...@laposte.net wrote: So far in simplified terms, for the education target, we have focus on school boards in US/Canada and Australia/New Zealand; focus on regional gov'ts in Germany. Here I mean

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

2010-10-06 Thread Marc Paré
Hi all. At this time, there is a survey asking to the blogdrake's community what kind of release cycle they prefer. This survey will be active until the weekend and I think this could be an acceptable look about community preferences. We must

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

2010-10-06 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-06 20:02, vfmBOFH a écrit : 2010/10/7 Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com mailto:m...@marcpare.com Le 2010-10-06 17:10, vfmBOFH a écrit : 2010/10/1 atilla ontas tarakbu...@gmail.com mailto:tarakbu...@gmail.com mailto:tarakbu...@gmail.com

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

2010-10-06 Thread Marc Paré
school/university labs... etc. And even for personal use, not many would appreciate having to do an unanticipated reinstall or restore from backup. Particularly those who want to avoid upgrading their distro every 6 months. ;) Rolling distro, anyone ? - André (andre999) Romain suggest an

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

2010-10-06 Thread andré
Michael Scherer a écrit : Le mardi 05 octobre 2010 à 20:17 +0200, Ahmad Samir a écrit : On 5 October 2010 19:53, Tux 99tux99-...@uridium.org wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Ahmad Samir wrote: I looked at the description that Michael gave. And I think I know what a rolling

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

2010-10-06 Thread andré
Ahmad Samir a écrit : On 6 October 2010 05:02, Fernando Parragato2...@yahoo.com.mx wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:47:20 +0200 Ahmad Samirahmadsamir3891-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org wrote: On 5 October 2010 15:28, Tux99tux99-mga-ju+53dptyrfafugrpc6...@public.gmane.org

Re: [Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

2010-10-06 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2010/10/7 Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com: I guess this information would have to come from someone from the core dev group. Just so that we know for sure. So, is Mageia going to be principally a KDE distro with offers during installation to install GNOME and other desktops? Or is it going to be

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

2010-10-06 Thread andré
Tux99 a écrit : On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Thierry Vignaud wrote: On 5 October 2010 15:28, Tux99tux99-...@uridium.org wrote: This would reduce the space requirements on the mirrors and it would mean that Mageia is a rolling distro for most apps, making it more attractive compared to

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

2010-10-06 Thread andré
Marc Paré a écrit : school/university labs... etc. And even for personal use, not many would appreciate having to do an unanticipated reinstall or restore from backup. Particularly those who want to avoid upgrading their distro every 6 months. ;) Rolling distro, anyone ? - André (andre999)

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

2010-10-06 Thread Fernando Parra
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 15:25:13 +0100 Buchan Milne bgmilne-tobu8pog+uhswrhanm7...@public.gmane.org wrote: On Wednesday, 6 October 2010 03:39:04 Fernando Parra wrote: On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:00:46 -0400 Sinner from the Prairy

Re: [Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

2010-10-06 Thread andré
Sorteal a écrit : On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 04:01 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: 2010/10/7 Marc Parém...@marcpare.com: I guess this information would have to come from someone from the core dev group. Just so that we know for sure. So, is Mageia going to be principally a KDE distro with

Re: [Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

2010-10-06 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 7 October 2010 02:20, Kira elegant.pega...@gmail.com wrote: 在 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:59:52 +0800, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com寫道: I am not sure anymore, but I thought I had read somewhere that Mageia would be a KDE-centric distro à la Mandriva, but still offer Gnome etc. if the user wished to

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

2010-10-06 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 7 October 2010 02:24, andré and...@laposte.net wrote: Ahmad Samir a écrit : On 2 October 2010 14:50, Jérôme Martinmag...@delaur.net  wrote: Le vendredi 1 octobre 2010, Olivier Méjean a écrit : Le vendredi 1 octobre 2010 08:51:34, atilla ontas a écrit : What's your opinion? What

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

2010-10-06 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 7 October 2010 03:59, andré and...@laposte.net wrote: Ahmad Samir a écrit : On 6 October 2010 05:02, Fernando Parragato2...@yahoo.com.mx  wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:47:20 +0200 Ahmad Samirahmadsamir3891-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org  wrote: On 5 October 2010 15:28,

Re: [Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

2010-10-06 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 7 October 2010 07:19, Kira elegant.pega...@gmail.com wrote: 在 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:14:46 +0800, Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com寫道: IMHO, even for kde4 Konqueror shouldn't be the default web browser, it has a lot of quirks. Experienced users who want to use anything other than the

Re: [Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

2010-10-06 Thread Marek Laane
2010/10/7 Kira elegant.pega...@gmail.com 在 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:14:46 +0800, Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com 寫道: IMHO, even for kde4 Konqueror shouldn't be the default web browser, it has a lot of quirks. Experienced users who want to use anything other than the defaults do so all the

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

2010-10-06 Thread Gustavo Giampaoli
Could it be possible to use the same schema that Mandriva use + one LTS with three years of support? Regular releases every six months with 18 month support. But we could include this kind of LTS with 36 month. Difference with Ubuntu will be that our LTS will be launched only after the previous