I have been using Mandrake, Mandriva an Mageia for many years. For each new release, support for some useful programs/packages that that i needed is removed from the distro. Most recent examples are between 5 and 6 iwatch, and between 6 and 7 syncthing.
For both of these I filed bugs. For both packages exist simple workarounds. For iwatch I rebuit with Suse open build service and it was only required to change the name of one dependency and it worked. For syncthing I found http://www.mageia-gr.org/rpm/7/x86_64/ at the Greek support forum. Why not include these two packages in the repos for Cauldron? Should be very quick and easy to do this.
Anyhow, I am very greatful for all the the effort that volunteers put into maintaining the distro.
Thank you all!
But I hope anything more will not be broken when it is time to upgrade from Mga 7 to 8...