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The Mageia project moves to your first alpha, expected now sometime in January. She have set up the infrastructure, developmental biology and administrative teams, and choose a permanent logo employs.

Beginning of November the Mageia project had many necessary elements almost in place. These include things like a build server, Web site hosting wiki, a code of conduct, development and management teams and a roadmap. The build server is based on Mandriva one and just almost complete. PLF is temporarily hosting some online resources and Zarb.org is hosting the mailing lists until a change to Gandi is complete. Packaging, artwork, distribution were organised developers, translators, designers, QA and other teams. Alpha was scheduled for December at this time.

Mageia is some forward according to a recent blog post. The many logo entries were short-listed come were and a final decision is expected any day now. There were so many nice entries this is bound to be a very difficult task.

Early in the week, Mageia.org mapping was created and registered. This will collect Mageia and distribute resources necessary to develop the distribution. Anne Nicolas was appointed President, Arnaud Patard is the new Secretary and Treasurer is Damien Lallement. Monthly reports will be published for those interested in the financial details. Report logs of the founder weekly meetings also published, and their own public communication channels have each team and.

Discussions are on-going-on the repository directory structure and Subversion repositories are implemented. Main mirror directory starts with three media: core, nonfree and tainted. and have five subdirectories: release, updates, Updates_testing, backports and Backports_testing. Importing Mandriva are logical and organized as a developer with the base system, compiler and rpm tools start. X will be followed next by the desktop environments, before it on the remaining software. Removing license restrictions encumbered code is top priority.

Tester is the most important treat for anxious, that December Alpha back to sometime in January with the first release still on schedule for March were pushed has.

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