Fwd: [Cooker] Mandriva Linux will return to the community

[devnet]

Fyi.... 

Congrats to mdawkins!!!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Raphaël Jadot" <rja...@mandriva.com>
Date: May 17, 2012 7:06 PM
Subject: [Cooker] Mandriva Linux will return to the community
To: <coo...@mandrivalinux.org>

http://blog.mandriva.com/en/

It's now official.
Mandriva Linux project will be lead by an independant entity.


- Mandriva will still support this project in it and invest time, work
and money in it.

- Now, at this moment, there is a temporary "arbitrary" workgroup, which
is working on how organize the structure, the processes etc. I say
"arbitrary" because we (i am in this group) are not elected by the
community. So this situation is only temporary as we are working on how
having a democratic structure.

- Still temporary "arbitrary" but for the same reason, Per Øyvind
Karlsen (proyvind) will be acting as project leader for the course of
Mandriva Linux 2012 development, with Bernhard Rosenkränzer (aka bero) &
Matthew Dawkins (aka mdawkins also founder of Unity Linux Project, close
partner of Mandriva) as release managers of. Thanks to them for
accepting these roles, and to maintain this project during this
transition, it's a huge work.

- The wiki is still hosted on mandriva.com domain, so does the forum,
but as annouced by JM Croset, it's now the community wiki : don't
hesitate to fill it, give your ideas, etc here
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2012_Development
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2012.0_specs_proposal
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Ideas_Mandriva_2012.0

- Many people told us (especially in community@ boxmail) to have
RedHat/Mandriva as an example to follow. Even if we get closer to this
model, the relation  will not be the same (correct me if I'm wrong) as
Fedora is not independant from RedHat and its decisions.
In our case, when the structure will be created and all legal stuff
solved (trademark etc), the governance of Mandriva Linux will be on
behalf of the community and only the community (maybe in a model closer
to Debian), and will be totally independant from Mandriva SA. Mandriva
Sa will be a partner like any other people or company wanting to
contribute to the project : no more voice, no less.

- Soon there will have new channels especially for this project, but at
this moment, don't hesitate to give your advice/feedback in this list,
in the wiki or directly to the CEO (JM Croset) at comm...@mandriva.com
(you can also write to this mailbox if you want more explanations, or
wanting to be part of the temporary workgroup).

Raphaël Jadot

[Raphaël Jadot]

Le jeu. 17 mai 2012 20:38:05 CEST, devnet a écrit :
> Fyi....
>
> Congrats to mdawkins!!!

Thanks for forwarding :) I was starting to write a mail to the list

There was some little mistakes (i said RedHat/Mandriva, I meant of
course RedHat/Fedora)

It's a huge work, and it's not easy, i hope the relation between UL and
Mandriva project will strenghten

RPM5 will rocks everything :) !

>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Raphaël Jadot" <rja...@mandriva.com <mailto:rja...@mandriva.com>>
> Date: May 17, 2012 7:06 PM
> Subject: [Cooker] Mandriva Linux will return to the community
> To: <coo...@mandrivalinux.org <mailto:coo...@mandrivalinux.org>>
>
> http://blog.mandriva.com/en/
>
> It's now official.
> Mandriva Linux project will be lead by an independant entity.
>
>
> - Mandriva will still support this project in it and invest time, work
> and money in it.
>
> - Now, at this moment, there is a temporary "arbitrary" workgroup, which
> is working on how organize the structure, the processes etc. I say
> "arbitrary" because we (i am in this group) are not elected by the
> community. So this situation is only temporary as we are working on how
> having a democratic structure.
>
> - Still temporary "arbitrary" but for the same reason, Per Øyvind
> Karlsen (proyvind) will be acting as project leader for the course of
> Mandriva Linux 2012 development, with Bernhard Rosenkränzer (aka bero) &
> Matthew Dawkins (aka mdawkins also founder of Unity Linux Project, close
> partner of Mandriva) as release managers of. Thanks to them for
> accepting these roles, and to maintain this project during this
> transition, it's a huge work.
>

> - The wiki is still hosted on mandriva.com <http://mandriva.com> domain, so does

> the forum,
> but as annouced by JM Croset, it's now the community wiki : don't
> hesitate to fill it, give your ideas, etc here
> http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2012_Development
> http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2012.0_specs_proposal
> http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Ideas_Mandriva_2012.0
>
> - Many people told us (especially in community@ boxmail) to have
> RedHat/Mandriva as an example to follow. Even if we get closer to this
> model, the relation will not be the same (correct me if I'm wrong) as
> Fedora is not independant from RedHat and its decisions.
> In our case, when the structure will be created and all legal stuff
> solved (trademark etc), the governance of Mandriva Linux will be on
> behalf of the community and only the community (maybe in a model closer
> to Debian), and will be totally independant from Mandriva SA. Mandriva
> Sa will be a partner like any other people or company wanting to
> contribute to the project : no more voice, no less.
>
> - Soon there will have new channels especially for this project, but at
> this moment, don't hesitate to give your advice/feedback in this list,
> in the wiki or directly to the CEO (JM Croset) at comm...@mandriva.com

> <mailto:comm...@mandriva.com>

[dillj]

This is great news.
Thanks for the forward.

[jesus manuel hernandez]

.Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

its a really really greats news

Thanks for the forward.

[Jeremiah Summers]

Congrats Matt, looks like a lot of work as you already know. I'm sure
you'll be great. You've came a long way from packaging OpenOffice for
PCLinuxOS. I hope to see you on a future Linux nerds biography show on
Bravo.

[freedomrun]

For these kind of news all waiting finally and really pays off. :)
gratz mdawkins
man you`re the best
and don`t worry if it is not going to be easy (hmm ..like it was easy
till now .. hmm)
as
you can count on our help

Best regards

[OnlyHuman]

Congratulations to Matthew, Proyvind and bero,
hope you will be able to secure a good base and future for Mandriva
and Unity-linux.

[jesus manuel hernandez]

Congratulations to Matthew, Proyvind and bero

 

the dream team at birth, pretty cool team,

I wish you success