[Mageia-discuss] UK user community?

[atilla ontas]

2010/9/20 Thomas Lottmann <skiperdrake at gmail.com>:
>  Le 20/09/2010 12:53, atilla ontas a écrit :
>>
>> Also local communities can package software just for their needs and
>> won't placed in official repos. Like we providing Zekr (Quran study
>> tool) and zemberek (Turkish spell-checking tool) on Mandriva Turkiye
>> repository (MVT)
>
> Just a not : I am against this form of packaging only for a group of people.
> Anywhere in the world someone who wants to study a language, turkish for
> xample, may need it. Currently we need to focus all our efforts in Mageias
> official repositories and avoid as much as possible having too many
> different repositories. Programs are usually not territory dependant.
>
> That's out of subject anyway, but I wanted to tell clearly my opinion on
> this. Remember : Mageia takes back the same spirit of easy to use and
> simplicity that comes form Mandriva and Mandrake. Fiddling with many extra
> repositories is then what we do not want to hear about. This would even
> force people to be members or to visit the website to add the repo and then
> access te program they were looking for. So, that's just no to me.
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I'm not insisting on seperate repositories. Why we (as Mandriva
Turkiye) created that repository is some packages can not be accepted,
like zemberek (See: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=46479)
according to mdv packaging policies. And as you may know i am not a
well experienced, professional packager. As you can see, Michael
Scherer tried to show me the light but for a short time. There is no
assistance for third party packagers. Also, contributing to Mandriva
such a way was not well documented.

Also you may noticed kde3 mvt packages on Mandriva Forum/Community
RPMS  section.

What i mean is that local communities are necessity, People want to
get help and assistance in their own language. Also, especially in
Turkey, Linux users unite around those Turkish communities. We are
either member or admin of nearly every linux related community forums
in Turkey. Thats the only way to edvertse linux and provide help in my
country.