[Mageia-dev] Mageia 3 specifications

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le mercredi 30 mai 2012 23:43:03, Anne Nicolas a écrit :
> Hi there
> 
> Mageia 2 is out, it's now time to work on next version, Mageia 3. We
> tried to improve the specifications process so that it can be more
> efficient and less frustrating :).
> 
> Some conclusions on Mageia 2 specifications:
> 
> - lots of proposals, very few achieved
> - lots of incomplete proposals
> - specifications that are not really specifications like "update to xxx
> version" for minor packages
> - some kind of catalog of items without logic
> - lots of proposals without any resources
> ...
> 
> So in order to improve all this, we looked at what were doing other
> distributions, especially in Fedora. Then we worked on first version for
> "Features policy" that will be used for Mageia.
> 
> Here is the process:
> 
> - until 15/06: make proposals for Mageia 3 specifications (features)
> following our policy
> - 16 to 18/06: choose features that will be added for official
> specifications of Mageia 3
> - publish and communicate on it
> 
> Mageia features policy:
> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Features_policy
> Template for feature proposal:
> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature_Template
> 
> Please read carefully this policy and use the template. Once it's done,
> feel free to mail -dev if you think you need to discuss your feature and
> find people so that you can propose resources to work on it.
> 
> Cheers

Maybe this would deserve a blog post so that people who don't follow the 
mageia-dev mailing list have a chance to propose new features for Mageia 3, 
provided they follow the features policy?

Samuel