[Mageia-discuss] Contributing Howto : need help

Samuel Verschelde stormi at laposte.net
Thu Feb 10 09:26:55 CET 2011


Le jeudi 10 février 2011 03:06:19, Marek Laane a écrit :
> 2011/2/10 Thomas Lottmann <skiperdrake at gmail.com>
> 
> > Le 09/02/2011 21:22, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> >> Le mercredi 9 février 2011 21:20:13, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I was given the task to write a contributing howto, so that we could
> >>> link to it from the alpha download page (and from other pages if
> >>> considered useful).
> >>>
> >>> However, I'm sure I can delegate this task so that I can keep working
> >>> on other matters.
> >>>
> >>> That's why I'm sending this to the mailing list : what should we say in
> >>> this page, what layout, etc. ? If someone wants to propose a detailed
> >>> outline for such a page that we could discuss, it would greatly help !
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance.
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>>
> >>> Samuel
> >>
> >> I forgot to say what was implicit for me but could have to be precised :
> >> this
> >> is meant to be the starting point for people wanting to help, whatever
> >> their
> >> skills. The goal is probably to explain what kind of help people can
> >> give, then explain how they can give this help once they have chosen one
> >> or several
> >> areas of interest.
> >>
> >> Samuel
> >
> > I have started to work on this on the Mandriva wiki, still in french, and
> > I could not finish it yet in french. But the basics are there. Perhaps we
> > could use this in the next wiki for Mageia and complete it for every
> > language.
> >
> > http://wiki.mandriva.com/fr/Les_diff%C3%A9rentes_fa%C3%A7ons_de_contribue
> >r
> >
> > Thomas.
> 
> A good template may also be GNOME's site http://live.gnome.org/JoinGnome.
>  It seems to cover all possible themes shortly and mattef-of-factly,
>  though, of course, content could and should be different. OTOH Mandriva's
>  site is visually more attractive.
> 

Would someone want to start a quick "how to contribute" page (which can be 
refined later) so that we have something for alpha release, so ideally before 
the end of this week-end ?

Samuel



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