As said in a previous post, people are now back to work, focused on Mageia 3 release. So it was time again to define the specifications for the coming release. We then thought it was time to improve the process used for Mageia 2:

So we decided to setup a different process and improve things. We first had a look on the other distributions to see how it was handled. We were finally inspired by Fedora

Mageia has now its own Features policy. It defines what is a feature, how it can be proposed, and what criteria are used to choose the official one for coming releases.

The process is the following:

make proposals for Mageia 3 after reading the policy. People had to use a template to formalize it,

all the proposals were then read and sorted. All the contributers were asked to complete it if necessary or discuss it on mageia-dev mailing-list,

final choice was made.