[Mageia-discuss] Contributing Howto : need help

Samuel Verschelde stormi at laposte.net
Sun Feb 13 20:50:56 CET 2011


Le dimanche 13 février 2011 20:15:52, andre999 a écrit :
> 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_contr
> >>>>> ib 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 :)

\o/

I had almost given up all hope :)

Samuel


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