[Mageia-discuss] Contributing Howto : need help

andre999 andr55 at laposte.net
Sun Feb 13 20:15:52 CET 2011


Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
>
> Le jeudi 10 février 2011 18:53:55, andre999 a écrit :
>> Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
>>> 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_contrib
>>>>> ue 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
>>
>> I took a quick look at Thomas' page and it is quite impressive.  No
>> doubt it could be improved/elaborated somewhat, but translated in its
>> present form (with references to Mandriva replaced by Mageia, of course)
>> would make an excellent contribution for the alpha release.
>> (Since the alpha is basically a test, it doesn't have to be perfect.)
>> (A plus is we will already have a version in french as well.)
>
> I just created the page : http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=contribute
>
> Still hoping for a courageous volunteer to do the work for me :)
>
> Samuel

ok :)
-- 
André


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