Mageia should give the keys to involve oneself with upstream
Well keys exist even when there's a lock :)I'm sure people will love to be involved in a Mageia Game Team involving gamers, players, graphists, translators, packagers, developers... let's elaborate on how people can contribute upstream :-)
Each upstream project has at the minimum:
- website to distribute the software
- developers that can be contacted for patches or support (bugs) or discussion about new functionalities
- users that talk together to suggest evolutions, documentation, provide translations
Ideally teams include many competencies that work together
For a list of packages, teams can mutualize efforts for testing and working with upstream to make the relevant information flowingI would propose to provide generic templates based on a practical pilot, perhaps the gaming team involving:
- users for bugs (package or upstream), documentation, promotion, support (be it upstream or distribution-wise)
- translators (for package description, software content if needed, documentation)
- packagers
- testers
- developers that can provide patches upstream
- supporters that just follow the trend and will get involve when they can or decide it
Desktop teams
Well, one difference would be to have users involved in their desktop usage, day to day- with tips, use cases, preferences, suggestions to do it the right way, documentation on what exists and how it can be configured
- graphists that make our desktop nice and looking modern and packagers to include their creations (think screensaver, background images, splash/boot screen...)
- http://freedesktop.org initiatives sustained with user experience and as much as possible http://kde-look.org/ and http://gnome-look.org/ publicized for stable innovations
- cross cooperation to identify what works with your hardware would be a plus: http://faq.tuxfamily.org/CommunicationLibreHardware/En
- dedicated teams around some peripherals (camera, smartphone/GPS, scanner...) can easily be identified, who is ready to contribute? Maybe OpenStreetMap and wikipedia can help :)
Communication teams
Communication is possible for everyone, though not everyone has the time or the fluency or the talent to write and analyze/follow what is being done- of course, there should be a planet, versatile, documented, promoted on news sites when subjects deserve it, analyzing trends and relevant subject in the (coming) forums
- showing involvement and current initiatives once subjects are thoroughly worked on and with visible advancement for easy use
- call to contribution when teams are being formed and have suficient backup and support with identified attainable goals
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