Home, Sweet Home!

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Anne Nicolas

We have some very good news today that we’d like to share with you: Mageia is no longer homeless :). We have now a full hosting solution thanks to ielo.net , a French host and provider in the south of France. We would like to thank Julien and Bertrand for their kindness as they will sponsor the Mageia project for hosting and bandwidth.

The Mageia team is now working to prepare all the servers, buy new hard disks and some required hardware (details of expenses will be published of course). We should be able to install them in the datacenter by the end of next week. Then the hard work can start at last! 🙂

Freely

Mageia team

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Mageia news: another busy week!

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Anne Nicolas

It’s been another very busy week for Mageia! Here is the latest news regarding our progress and the goals for the coming days.

  • Mageia Values: here they are! Thanks to the Mageia marketing team, after discussions, we present the Mageia values page. Please have a look. It will let you appreciate and understand how we see the Mageia project and its values.
  • Mageia.org association: as explained in the previous post, Mageia.org will manage the Mageia project (resources, legal aspects, …). The association has been registered on the 7th of October and should be validated within one month. Long life to Mageia.org!
  • Teams organisation: at the beginning of this week we will propose a process and some advice to start various teams’ work. One of the first tasks will be to elect one representative for the Mageia council and also choose a leader and a co-leader. In order to organise these elections, Olivier Thauvin has finalized the version 2.0 of Epoll, thanks to the help of the Mageia community for debugging and translation. You can test it right now, Epoll will be installed and configured for Mageia.
  • Mageia forums: Maat and Ashledombos have set up phpBB 3 on a temporary dedicated server. It’s now fully working and configured for Mageia needs. We still need to plug it to the LDAP directory for authentication. This will bring centralized authentication and avoid to have several login/password for all Mageia environment. MLO team will kindly host the Mageia forums as they proposed it to help Mageia. As a reminder, this forum will be like a portal for Mageia users. It will also provide links on all local Mageia forums. If you wish to be part of this list, just answer to this post, and you will be contacted. As asked on the mageia-discuss mailing-list, mail gateway on forums will be studied to check if it is technically (and practically) possible and how it can be best organised.
  • Build system and Mageia environment hosting: we are waiting for an answer to get the Mageia build system hosted in some good conditions for the project. As soon as we have a definitive answer, we will rack the servers and start setting up the build system. Also big thanks to gandi for providing us with two virtual machines. It’s used for now to host the LDAP directory. Stay tuned!
  • Centralized authentication: as explained above, the team is working on a centralised authentication using an LDAP directory. Together with an easy web interface, you will be able to register through your account to any Mageia service: Bugzilla, forums, mailing-lists, svn, … It should be as easy as a click. Buchan Milne is our expert on that task :).
  • Mirrors management: Olivier Thauvin has started to work on a web application for mirrors management. It will help to register and maintain mirrors list.
  • PandaBoard: Mageia has applied to the PandaBoard project. The Pandaboard is an ARM board using the TI OMAP4 processor, the project offers some for development. It should be included in the ARM port for Mageia.

As a note, all founders’ meetings are now public. You can see details on wiki.

As usual, you can use mailing-lists, this blog and mageia-contact to comment or ask any questions. Thanks for your patience and see you soon for more news!

Mageia team

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Mageia: some news about the project

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Anne Nicolas
Given all the contribution proposals we received so far, it looks like Mageia has the potential to be a great success! For those who are wondering what is happening right now, here are some news about various subjects:
  • In order to answer the main questions about the Mageia project, a FAQ is now available on the web site. Feel free to comment and ask for more questions if you think some subjects are missing.
  • The Mageia association is going to be registered on Monday with an official publication in about 1 month (once reviewed by the french administration), thanks to Severine and rtp
  • A Mageia Manifesto is in progress. We provided a list of items to help Graham Lauder and some marketing & communication guys to work on a first draft
  • A sysadmin team has been created by nicolas (boklm), to start working on the new infrastructure
  • For the hardware infrastructure, we received proposals for servers and hosting. We now have the hardware to be able to setup a build system and host the main services. We already started the setup of a virtual machine offered by gandi.net which we will use soon to host the web sites and blog. Regarding the hosting of the other servers, we have a proposal for one year and are already working on a longer term solution.
  • Misc is working on a planning for the deployment of the buildsystem (roughly, 4/5 days from scratch without server installation if all goes well)
  • Olivier (Nanar) should soon announce some plans for the mirrors and a web application to take care of this. We already have many proposals for Mageia local mirrors to host packages and ISOs. But we are still looking for Tier1 mirrors.
  • Buchan is working on the LDAP part of the infrastructure
  • Mageia has been contacted by various newspapers, podcasts, webTV, web Radio… etc. All these interviews took lot of time for preparation but you will hear about Mageia soon 🙂
  • Donations are going really well, nearly 5.000 € and 100 donors! We will publish monthly financial reports so that you can follow how it’s being used. The first expenses will be hard disk drives, domain names and the Mageia trademark registration
  • You will soon be able to buy Mageia tee-shirts. We don’t have an official logo yet, but don’t worry, it is still possible to make fun tshirts without a logo.
Coming soon on this blog, more news about the general organization of the Mageia project, stay tuned!
Freely
Mageia team
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Join the Blog Team (translate, post, moderate, …)

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Anne Nicolas

Hello boys and girls,

As you know, we are working on the localization of the Mageia Blog.
I’m looking for volunteers to join the Blog Team (BT).

What is the role of the Blog Team?
– Manage blogs ;
– Manage comments (moderate, validate…) ;
– Publish content (in coordination with the BT, the Communication Team and the other related teams) ;
– Translate content from the EN blog ;
– Spread the birth of the localized blogs ;
– Inform the project and needed people about important comments or remarks in the threads of a blog.

I will soon publish a wiki entry about the rules of the BT and the process to follow for each tasks asked.

For the moment, the blogs are: de/ es/ fr/ it/ pt_br/ ru/ (and “en” by default).
If you want to see a new language or locale, just answer by posting a comment on this thread to ask/propose a new one. Beware, if you ask for a new one, you will be in charge of it!

To summarize, we need translators and moderators for each blog.
So, let’s go to apply. 🙂

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New development release name has been chosen, Cauldron!

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Anne Nicolas

Since we’re starting with a new base, a brand new name for the development release in Mageia needed to be found.

This was one of the – many – tasks that needed to be done to get Mageia going (although admittedly one of the fun tasks :)). Olivier Thauvin, aka Nanar, accepted to take on this task and things started rolling when he posted a new thread in the mageia-discuss mailing list, with a couple of initially proposed names. Of course, brainstorming ensued between the community members (in one really long thread). After gathering enough ideas / name proposals, a doodle poll was conducted. The poll ended on Friday 24th of September and the winner is Cauldron.

In Mandriva the development release was named Cooker. The development release of Mageia will be, like Cooker, a rolling distro. The idea here is that any new packages go into the development release first, where they’re tested and any bugs found in them are fixed; then when the development cycle nears its end the repositories are frozen in preparation for pushing a new stable release (after that the development distro starts again). Of course it’s not recommended to run development releases on day-to-day production machines as, by its very nature, it’s unstable and prone to break. Things tend to break quite a good number of times in development releases however they get fixed pretty fast too, so if you like living on the cutting edge don’t hesitate to join forces with those brave souls who’ll be testing Cauldron; the more the testers the better the stable release that’ll follow as more bugs will get squashed this way.

Hopefully stuff will be bubbling in Cauldron soon 🙂

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