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What is a SIG?

A SIG is a Special Interest Group within Mageia packagers. Each SIG aims at making Mageia a great distribution for a particular purpose.

It focuses packagers as groups of users, and not just individual packagers. The main goal is to share resources, efforts and knowledge as much as possible, and also to promote cooperative work towards a common goal.

In particular, we shall:

• Manage features within a SIG
• Use SIG tags in Bugzilla to better work as groups to reproduce, fix and follow-up on bugs
• Manage apprentices together in a SIG rather than just a single mentor
• Get a more precise idea about the distribution status (manpower, non-covered domains, features, outstanding issues)
• Report on current progress at the packager meeting with SIGs representatives

Mageia SIG

Currently, Mageia has the following SIG:

• SIG basesystem for kernel and hardware
• SIG desktop for desktop environments (KDE, GNOME, Xfce, ... etc.)
• SIG productivity for office, publishing, network clients (including browsers) and business-related software
• SIG multimedia for audio, video and graphics production
• SIG education for educational software
• SIG sciences for scientific software
• SIG games for games and amusement
• SIG servers for network and server usage
• SIG development for software development tools and Mageia in-house development
• SIG security
• SIG Engineering-Industry for Engineering software used mainly in industry.