[om-council] Council meeting April 21st follow-up [2]

Raphaël Jadot rj at hodo.fr
Fri Apr 22 15:06:22 EDT 2016



22.04.2016, 14:36, "rugyada" <rugyada at gmail.com>:
>  Hello,
>
>  With reference to yesterdays C-meeting, I'd like to add a few lines.
>
>  Premise:
>  the English language for some not native people may make discussions a
>  bit hard to fully participate. In my own case I must admit that it's
>  very exhausting task although I do it with endless pleasure ;-)
>  Therefore often I read again the logs to be sure that I didn't miss
>  anything important.
>
>  With a more fresh mind I've found at least 3 point I'd like to add
>  here. Please forgive me to be boring :)))
>
>  1) It has been remarked that we lost around half of manpower.
>  Be it really a half, or around the half, it's undeniable. It's a very
>  important and overall topic so I'm going to send a separate email for
>  a possible discussion.
>
>  2) With all my love to Bero :) I'd like to know which KF5/Plasma5
>  distro he uses for doing what, to state that it works well.
>  I think that I can gather a list of issues, not blocker for Beta stage
>  but unacceptable for a stable release.
>  I don't know the exact data, but can anyone tell how many distro have
>  been officially released till now with Plasma5, and which ones?
>  Please attention: I mean KF5/Plasma5 -> without any other alternative choice!


Kubuntu? Lol just kidding. If I'm correct OpenSuse is succesful with Plasma 5, at least my father is happy with it: https://en.opensuse.org/Features#KDE_Plasma_5




>  3) By proposing to the users a "jump" to 3 without guarantee support
>  to 2014.2, are we not risking a loss of users even more big?
>  I guess I'm not alone, if I was put in front of this kind of choice,
>  without any guarantee that I'll have everything I have atm well
>  working and I need, personally I'd be tempted to look around for a new
>  reliable distro.
>  Users needing a SO for their work or for their important things, they
>  do *need* safety.

Indeed… But how to do without enougr manpower?
>
>  That said, I wish to thank Bero, Colin, and all the other nice guys
>  for trying and accomplish my request (request on behalf of OM 2014.2
>  current and next users).
>  I would like to thank Crisb too for his commitment and quick & precise
>  work on OM 2014.2 maintaining (as well as for his huge help on OM3)
>
Yes thanks to the whole team :)

>  Cheers,
>
>  --
>  ____________________
>  Best regards,
>  Cristina
>
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-- 
Raphaël J.

22.04.2016, 14:36, "rugyada" <rugyada at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> With reference to yesterdays C-meeting, I'd like to add a few lines.
>
> Premise:
> the English language for some not native people may make discussions a
> bit hard to fully participate. In my own case I must admit that it's
> very exhausting task although I do it with endless pleasure ;-)
> Therefore often I read again the logs to be sure that I didn't miss
> anything important.
>
> With a more fresh mind I've found at least 3 point I'd like to add
> here. Please forgive me to be boring :)))
>
> 1) It has been remarked that we lost around half of manpower.
> Be it really a half, or around the half, it's undeniable. It's a very
> important and overall topic so I'm going to send a separate email for
> a possible discussion.
>
> 2) With all my love to Bero :) I'd like to know which KF5/Plasma5
> distro he uses for doing what, to state that it works well.
> I think that I can gather a list of issues, not blocker for Beta stage
> but unacceptable for a stable release.
> I don't know the exact data, but can anyone tell how many distro have
> been officially released till now with Plasma5, and which ones?
> Please attention: I mean KF5/Plasma5 -> without any other alternative choice!
>
> 3) By proposing to the users a "jump" to 3 without guarantee support
> to 2014.2, are we not risking a loss of users even more big?
> I guess I'm not alone, if I was put in front of this kind of choice,
> without any guarantee that I'll have everything I have atm well
> working and I need, personally I'd be tempted to look around for a new
> reliable distro.
> Users needing a SO for their work or for their important things, they
> do *need* safety.
>
> That said, I wish to thank Bero, Colin, and all the other nice guys
> for trying and accomplish my request (request on behalf of OM 2014.2
> current and next users).
> I would like to thank Crisb too for his commitment and quick & precise
> work on OM 2014.2 maintaining (as well as for his huge help on OM3)
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> ____________________
> Best regards,
> Cristina
>
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> OM-Council at ml.openmandriva.org
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Raphaël J.



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