[Mageia-discuss] UK user community?

[Wolfgang Bornath]

The use of local groups has been already told - especially for events
in their country/area and promoting Mageia to the local media, etc.

Then there is the language reason as already said: I can understand
that there is no reason for a special language forum for UK, USA,
Canada, etc. like there is no reason for a special language forum for
Austria and Switzerland when there is a German community.

Then the repositories.
As others MandrivaUser.de has its repository with lots of packages and
own Mandriva Linux editions, resulting from user requests ands own
ideas, comparable with MIB. We have no problems to integrate all that
in a general contrib repository. But there is one important point:
All packages in that contrib repo have to follow certain rules
(signatures, versioning, no license violations, etc.). Although such
rules are essential they will cause certain groups or single packagers
to stay out of this general repository as has been the case with
Mandriva Linux.

So, although I would wish only one repository (makes it much easier
for mirror maintainers and users) I doubt that it will come to that.