{"id":1128,"date":"2011-10-03T06:16:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T06:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2012-11-20T22:13:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T22:13:53","slug":"they-make-mageia-samuel-verschelde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2011\/10\/03\/they-make-mageia-samuel-verschelde\/","title":{"rendered":"They make Mageia: Samuel Verschelde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2011\/10\/03\/they-make-mageia-samuel-verschelde\/samuel\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1134\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1134\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2011\/10\/03\/they-make-mageia-samuel-verschelde\/samuel\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/samuel.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"402,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D60&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1292362266&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;55&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.16666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"samuel\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/samuel.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/samuel.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1134\" title=\"samuel\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/samuel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\u00a0From Marcello Anni, Mageia Italia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hi Samuel, welcome by Mageia italian users. First of all, could you\u00a0please start by introducing yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Hello. I&#8217;m Samuel Verschelde, 29 year-old, living in Lyon (France).<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you first become interested in Linux?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>I discovered linux during my studies, in 2003. It was exciting to discover a\u00a0whole new world I didn&#8217;t know, having only used computers with Microsoft\u00a0systems on them for many years. The first distribution I installed was Debian\u00a0potatoe, and it probably wasn&#8217;t the best choice for a beginner not familiar\u00a0with unix command line \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nThen I used Red Hat for some time and finally settled to Mandrake in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you discover Mageia and why did you decide to join the project?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>I heard about Mageia the day it was announced publicly and immediately decided\u00a0to join the project. Saving the linux distribution I liked by turning it into\u00a0a community-driven project was (and still is) very motivating. Also, most of\u00a0the names I knew among contributers were joining Mageia, so it was clear that\u00a0even if it survived, Mandriva (the distribution) would never be the same\u00a0again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the fields you are contributing in Mageia?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m mostly interested in supporting the stable releases of Mageia. In the end,\u00a0those are what people use. For that I joined several teams :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>packager team<\/strong>, to be able to fix bugs, push new versions or add new software\u00a0to the distribution. Soon, it will allow me to push backports (ie new versions\u00a0of popular software) for Mageia 1, provided I find enough testers to validate\u00a0them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>QA team<\/strong>: its work currently is mostly testing update candidates (bug fixes,\u00a0security fixes) before they are pushed to all users. I didn&#8217;t plan to work that\u00a0much for the QA team, but there appeared to be a real need so I invested time\u00a0into that, trying to gather new volunteers and to help organizing the team&#8217;s\u00a0work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;m &#8220;mentoring&#8221; 4 people who want to become packagers for Mageia. I\u00a0wasn&#8217;t sure I had enough experience in packaging to do it, but here again\u00a0there was a need (people having been waiting for a mentor for weeks) so I\u00a0volunteered. It appears to go well, and in case of doubt I can still ask for\u00a0advice to more experienced packagers.<\/p>\n<p>And of course there is the Mageia App Db project that we started some months\u00a0ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In fact, you are the maintainer of Mageia-app-db. Can you explain what it is and which are its goals?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mageia App Db is an online RPM database whose goals are :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>provide an &#8220;official&#8221; place where to look for information about the packages\u00a0in Mageia<\/li>\n<li>focus on interaction between users, testers and packagers:\u00a0from users to packagers (backport requests, new soft requests with a\u00a0voting system, &#8230;),\u00a0from packagers to users\/testers (testing requests, ie packagers asking\u00a0users to test a certain package before pushing it to the official repositories,\u00a0&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>easy to use yet powerful<\/li>\n<li>some features, planned or already implemented : e-mail notifications (when a\u00a0new package is available for example), screenshots, ratings, tags&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the complete list, see the web page for this project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In which development status is mageia-app-db? what are its major features\u00a0and what we should expect in the next releases?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>The development status is : &#8220;being actively developed, but already usable in\u00a0its current state if you can forgive the missing features&#8221;. If we count only\u00a0the most regular contributers, there are 3 developers: Adrien Gallou\u00a0(France), Vyacheslav Blinov (Russia) and myself.<\/p>\n<p>Currently version 0.2 has the following features :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it synchronizes with Olivier Thauvin&#8217;s multi-distributions RPM database,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sophie.zarb.org\">Sophie<\/a>, so that it&#8217;s always up to date<\/li>\n<li>allows to browse the list, search for packages, see screenshots (when\u00a0available), see the latest updates or backports, and use various filters<\/li>\n<li>Thanks to Sophie, it can work not only for Mageia, but also for Mandriva,\u00a0Fedora, OpenSuse and other RPM-based distributions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Demo is available here.<\/p>\n<p>The current state is still rough, but it&#8217;s already useful, at least to me (and my brother R\u00e9mi confirmed he uses it too \ud83d\ude09 ) !<\/p>\n<p>Version 0.3 should bring the following features :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>official installation of Mageia App Db on Mageia servers (not really a feature\u00a0per se, but still an important step)<\/li>\n<li>LDAP connectivity to Mageia&#8217;s user database, so that your login in mageia\u00a0websites will work also in Mageia App Db<\/li>\n<li>user notifications. You can choose to receive an e-mail when a given package\u00a0is updated, for example when a new version of virtualbox becomes available in\u00a0the backports media.<\/li>\n<li>internationalization of the user interface, but first with very few\u00a0languages. Note that I&#8217;m talking only about the user interface. Translation of\u00a0package descriptions is another bigger matter.<\/li>\n<li>various small improvements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thank you Samuel for giving us this interview and keep it up with this great work! See you soon!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Thank you for asking me, greetings to all the Mageia users!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0From Marcello Anni, Mageia Italia Hi Samuel, welcome by Mageia italian users. First of all, could you\u00a0please start by introducing yourself? Hello. I&#8217;m Samuel Verschelde, 29 year-old, living in Lyon (France). How did you first become interested in Linux? 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