New release date for Mageia 3

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Anne Nicolas

After some thought and discussions it was decided to delay the Mageia 3 final release until the 18th of May.

We still have some release blocker bugs to fix, meaning bugs which cannot be fixed after release through updates. They are mainly to do with the installer, hardware detection and the installation media.

We could say “Mageia will be released when it’s ready” but we would look like a copycat 🙂

Packagers and QA team are on the case and doing all the hard work so that you have a great Mageia 3 release!

Thankyou for all your testing and bug reports! We are a community and you are an important part of it. You have helped to make Mageia. Feels good doesn’t it? If you would like to get more involved in making Mageia, please do so.  Take a look here for some ideas, there are all sorts of teams to join and you don’t need to be overly technical to get involved. You would be very welcome..

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We are nearly there! Mageia 3 RC is out

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Anne Nicolas

We are now 2 weeks from the end of the trip! (at least we hope we will have no delay). Mageia 3 RC release is now available for the very last tests. We need your feedback more than ever.

Mageia teams are working hard to fix the last annoying bugs, what we call release critical bugs. How do we qualify release critical one? All the bugs that cannot be fixed through updates, mainly in the isos installer, the kernel, some of the main drivers…

For more information about this release:

Update 2013/04/26:

Live medias now available, with improved detection of broadcom wireless devices,
UEFI boot support from usb stick on x86_64, …

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Mageia 3 beta 4 live ISOs are now available

Posted on April 8, 2013 by MrsB

Mageia 3 artworkJust a short post to let you know the Live ISOs for Mageia 3 beta 4 are now being uploaded. Sorry for the long wait for these. We hope they will be worth waiting for!

As always please test them well and report any bugs you find.

We are aware that there is a new issue with the repositories not being added after installing and rebooting. It is a result of a restructuring of the ISOs to better support things like broadcom wifi. It will be fixed for the RC but we thought you have waited long enough! For now, please manually add the medias using Mageia Control Center after you install from a Live ISO.

There is much work to be done before the RC and your testing is crucial so please do give them a try..  Thanks  🙂

For more information about this release:

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Let’s have a round-the-world party!

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Patricia Fraser

Mageia 3 release is coming up in around one month – who wants to join in the celebrations around the world?

We’ll be emailing everyone who registered on the Mageia Communities page on the wiki, but if you’re not on that list, don’t worry – we still want to hear from you!

If you need any help to give your release party a lift – artwork for posters or CDs, for instance – just let us know. And you can also use the comments to this post, the Mageia community on G+, @mageia_org on Twitter, or our Facebook page – or on the mailing lists, forums or IRC.

We’d also love to blog about release parties and events everywhere, and give everyone a chance to see the Mageia folks having a good time in other countries. So, please post or comment if you’re planning an event – or email press@mageia.org, so we can make sure your event is covered.

Let’s have a great time celebrating our third release together!

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Mailing-lists migration in progress

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Anne Nicolas

logo_sympaWhen the Mageia project was started, it didn’t have any server. Fortunatly people from zarb.org proposed to host the basic project infrastructure (mainly the website, wiki and mailing lists) until the project can have its own servers.

Mageia.Org now has a few servers since October 2010 (thanks to donations for the servers and Lost Oasis and Gandi for the hosting), but until now the existing mailing lists hosted by zarb.org had not been migrated to the Mageia mailing lists server. It is now time to do it.

The following mailing lists are going to be closed and replaced by a mailing-list in Mageia mailing list server:

  • mageia-announce@mageia.org -> announce@ml.mageia.org
  • mageia-artwork@mageia.org -> atelier-discuss@ml.mageia.org
  • mageia-bugsquad@mageia.org -> bugsquad-discuss@ml.mageia.org
  • mageia-dev@mageia.org -> dev@ml.mageia.org
  • mageia-discuss@mageia.org -> discuss@ml.mageia.org
  • mageia-i18n@mageia.org -> i18n-discuss@ml.mageia.org
  • mageia-marketing@mageia.org -> atelier-discuss@ml.mageia.org
  • mageia-sysadm@mageia.org -> sysadmin-discuss@ml.mageia.org
  • mageia-webteam@mageia.org -> atelier-discuss@ml.mageia.org

The new mailing lists have also been created to receive bug notifications from bugzilla assigned to different teams :

  • atelier-bugs@ml.mageia.org
  • i18n-bugs@ml.mageia.org

The new mailing lists require a Mageia Identity account for subscription :

  • if you have an identity account using the same address as subscribed on this mailing list, you should be automatically subscribed to the new mailing list and should have received a subscription notification
  • if you don’t have an identity account yet, or with a different email address, you need to manually subscribe to the new mailing list

You can find more details about mailing lists subscription and available lists on the Mageia wiki.

The archives for the old mailing lists are available on http://archives.mageia.org/. Links to old messages in the archives should continue working.

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