Re: Debian Installer
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Compliment ahead!
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Op 08-06-2007 om 08:57 schreef David Härdeman:
> On Thu, June 7, 2007 20:14, Joe Rodriguez wrote:
> > I would like to learn how to join this team. I use the debian installer
> > quite a bit at work for our automated installs and would love to help
> > the team develop this quicker. Please let me know what I need to do to
> > help.
>
> There's no formal process but you've already taken the first step -
> mailing this list.
>
> In addition you also have the IRC channel (#debian-boot on irc.debian.org)
> which in my experience has the most activity from late evening into late
> nights (CET).
>
> There's also the wiki page - http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller which
> contains lots of information (with a varying degree of completeness).
>
> You might find http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Contrib especially
> interesting.
>
> Basically (this is what I did at least), you check out debian-installer
> from SVN (see http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/svn), build
> some images, hack on it, break it, fix it, build new images, test, create
> patches, file bug reports on the relevant packages with patches attached,
> discuss with people here and on IRC, etc.
>
> Just, think of what you would like to fix/improve/implement in
> debian-installer and then dive right in.
>
> That's the development part of it, there are of course other things which
> need to be done as well, for example bug triage
> (http://wiki.debian.org/ProcessingInstallationReports) and translations
> (http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/l10n-stats/).
>
> --
> David Härdeman
Good text!
David,
Thank you for taking time to (public) welcome a new develloper.
Have fun with handling this compliment!
Cheers
Geert Stappers
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