Return-Path: Received: from [192.168.1.102] (lns-bzn-48f-62-147-157-222.adsl.proxad.net. [62.147.157.222]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u10sm74113458eem.1.2012.05.20.05.23.14 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 20 May 2012 05:23:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FB8E231.3090406@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 14:23:13 +0200 From: Anne Nicolas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.4) Gecko/20120426 Thunderbird/10.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: council@group.mageia.org Subject: Re: Following with Mandriva discussions References: <4FB8B9F8.8010800@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FB8B9F8.8010800@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Le 20/05/2012 11:31, Anne Nicolas a écrit : > Hi everyone Please try to add comments on all this, even if it's short. We need as many feedbacks as possible until tomorrow on this mail and on pad Cheers > > This mail is not using usual council ML but group alias > (council@group.mageia.org). Please keep it for current discussions. > > I'm mailing here the mail Romain sent to the board yesterday, following > last discussions we had with Mandriva CEO, JM Croset. > > ================= > > so, Anne and me got in a conf call with JM Croset a few minutes ago to > get a status. > > He announced yesterday (Thursday, May 18) > http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2012/05/17/mandriva-linux-will-return-to-the-community/. > So several discussions are popping up here and there. Mageia's > position has been transferred to some people inside Mandriva, among > which Peroyvind (see > https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?p=18041#p18041 - although he > doesn't have the full story it seems). > > He will announce early next Monday (22) that Mandriva SA will use Mageia > as a tech platform for its business server line, and contribute back. > Antoine Ginies (Mandriva engineer in chief for the business server) will > get in touch with us to see how we do this technically. > > He worries that trolls and discussions may damage Mageia in the coming > days (for both news: Mandriva using Mageia as a tech platform for its > Business Server line; and Mageia not following Mandriva in its > foundation things) because he realizes that... community stuff sometimes > goes out of hand; but he reassured us that, whatever is said, he does > mean good for everyone; so it's important to play it cool and neutral on > our side too. > > So, here's a suggested plan: > > * we announce/explicit both news on our side on Monday early morning > (CEST) as well, in a single blog post embedding all Mandriva-related news: > - on one side, Mageia is not going to join Mandriva foundation project > (and why, cold reasons as we gave him), > - on the other side, Mandriva is going to use Mageia as tech platform > for its business server line (link) and contribute back. > - this double news should make it more obvious that things are not so > simple as "Mageia is dumping Mandriva" or "Mandriva is rebasing on Mageia". > > * this news being published Monday morning, it leaves two full days to > propagate, before we push the Mageia 2 release news (Tuesday evening) - > interest about Mageia will have raised a bit in the previous days, and > this release news will hide partially the previous news. > > =================== > > It's good news for Mageia as it makes Mageia ecosystem grow up. It will > make things clearer for Mageia community now as many things were told > about Mandriva future and community. Mageia keeps its own governance and > organization which are now working quite well. > > So the next step is about communicating on these news. As said by Romain > it has to be prepared and be ready very quickly as Mandriva announcement > is planned for sunday evening. Mandriva CEO will send us the draft of > its own announcement so that we can check we all agree on the content. > > So now we have to work on the Mageia blog post which will be published > on monday morning: > https://pad.riseup.net/p/mdv-foundation > > native english speakers needed for proofread :) > > Waiing for your comments > > Cheers > -- Anne http://mageia.org