Mageia 3 beta 4 is waiting for your tests

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Anne Nicolas

Mageia-Default-800x480After all the delays in our Mageia 3 planning,  we’re very pleased to be able to announce the beta 4 release.

Packagers and the QA team have worked hard to fix as many bugs as possible. We are now one month from Mageia 3 final release, so your tests – and reports! – are more important than ever.

This beta release comes with nearly all the designs for Mageia 3 integrated – many thanks to Leo who made the background image for Mageia 2 and then worked again on the Mageia 3 design. Our thanks to him for his patience and for his contribution!

For more information about this release:

Initially we’re releasing the i586 and x86_64 DVDs and dual CD using the classical installer; work is still in progress on the live ISOs. We’ll announce them as soon as they’re ready.

Enjoy – and don’t forget the feedback and reports!

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Mageia’s 2013 General Assembly and the new Mageia board

Posted on March 20, 2013 by obgr_seneca

As usual, Mageia.Org’s general assembly was held during FOSDEM in Brussels.

During the general assembly Anne Nicolas (ennael) presented the associaton’s moral report to the assembly. During and after the presentation participants raised their questions about it, answered by ennael and others.

The report and the meeting logs, written by Oliver Burger (obgr_seneca) can be found here.
Since the treassurer of the association, Romain d’Alverny (rda) was not able to come to FOSDEM, and to give as many people as possible a chance to participate, it was decided to organize the vote on both reports – financial and moral – remotely.

After FOSDEM, all Mageia teams held elections for their respective team leaders and deputy team leaders. You can see the results of the team elections here.

At the same time, the association held the board elections. You can see how the Mageia Board works here.
Romain d’Alverny left the board and his position as treasurer, since he doesn’t have enough time for it any more.
We thank Romain for all the work he did for the project in the years until now, and hope to still see him around, as he left the board, but not the project as a whole.

According to the Association’s statutes, we had to re-elect one third of the board, which consisted of six people last year.
It was decided to extend the board to seven members, requiring three new people. We had three candidates for the three open positions: Nicolas Vigier, who had previously stepped down from the board temporarily, but was able to be a candidate again, Claire Robinson and Patricia Fraser.
All three were elected.

As its first official action, the new board had to elect someone among its members to replace Romain as treasurer. Nicolas Vigier was elected as treasurer and Patricia Fraser as assistant treasurer. Since the chairwoman and the secretary – Anne Nicolas and Oliver Burger – were elected last year, they still have two years to go, before those positions have to be voted upon again.
We welcome the new board members and congratulate them upon their election.

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Mageia 3 beta 3 is finally out!

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Anne Nicolas

As we said in a previous blog post, Mageia 3 planning was modified to give us some more time – for one beta release more, and to enable us to hunt more bugs. We finally had to face quite a lot of them during the QA tests of beta 3 isos,  and it took more time than expected to fix it. We’ve been working really hard, and now we have beta 3 ready for you to start testing.

So! Here are the LiveCD ISOs for downloading; the ISOs using the classical installer should be released in a very short time, and we’ll post again as soon as that happens.

We need you more than ever – please, download, install and test, test, test.

More details about this release:

If you need some help with testing and bug reporting, please do contact us on IRC, on Freenode server, #mageia-qa or #mageia-dev channels.

Enjoy this new release!

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Mageia 3 planning – or, the old story of the hare and the tortoise

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Anne Nicolas

After some discussions in a Mageia council meeting, it has been decided to give some more time to the lead-up to the Mageia 3 final release, so we can have more tests, more bug fixes – and  a more stable and up-to-date Mageia 3.

So, we will add one more beta release, and push release day along a little bit:

  • Beta 3: 2013 Mar 5th
  • Beta 4: 2013 Mar 28th
  • Release Candidate: 2013 Apr 19th
  • Final release: 2013 May 3rd

Make sure you download the beta releases and the RC, and help us test, test, test!

Planning on Mageia wiki

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Read all about it! Introducing the Mageia documentation team

Posted on February 15, 2013 by marja

When you discover a new distro, you can explore the different menus and tools and find out what is familiar and what is new to you. But you also need some more detailed explanations of the different features which are available. Mageia’s documentation team is responsible for creating and maintaining the documentation to enable you to explore Mageia in more depth and we’d like to tell you about what we do and how you can get involved. There’s always plenty to do and every contribution, however small, is very welcome. Come and enjoy being part of an international team sharing our knowledge and love of Mageia. You’ll probably be surprised at how much you learn yourself!

As well as supervising the wiki, we’re also preparing official help pages for the installer and the Mageia Control Center, using DocBook XML and XSL. These official help pages will also be accessible inline from the help menus. They have had to be written from scratch, as we weren’t able to simply adapt the official Mandriva documentation for licensing reasons, so it’s a big job.

We need not only writers for the wiki and the official inline and online help pages but also translators, proofreaders for various languages and testers who work through the pages and make sure that the instructions are clear, correct and complete. There’s no minimum commitment needed – team members do what they can, when they can. We’d like to have some more contributors who are familiar with wiki or DocBook formatting, but this isn’t essential. If you can write some basic text or produce screenshots for a page, someone else can produce the final formatted version. Most of our pages have been put together by more than one person – it’s teamwork that gets the job done and no contribution is too small.

We also need people who use less common hardware or peripherals, such as graphics tablets, UPS, satellite connection, hard disks bigger than 2.5TB (GPT) etc, to help us produce instructions on setting them up and using them with Mageia.

If you’re interested in helping us, you can just get started writing or editing wiki pages – you don’t have to be a team member to do that and you can let us know about your contribution on our IRC channel #mageia-doc. If you’d like to join the team officially, just follow the links in the wiki to add yourself to the list of team members, then sign up to our mailing list and send us an e-mail to introduce yourself. We look forward to hearing from you!

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