Re: Just to say hello
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 08:41, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> I think it should be quite easy to pick some work from tasks pages like
>
> http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio
>
> (I picked the biological page because it fits your profession best -
> feel free to dive into the other tasks) The principle is easy: yellow
> or red color is signaling work to do. :-)
Yes, I've noticed this yesterday. I'll find something interesting and
let you know when my work is in progress.
> I just added you to the Debian Med team and thus you can easily commit
> to the Debian Med repositories (SVN and Git is used at the preference of
> the packager see our policy[1]). Currently you see as tasks like
>
> - "Newer upstream" warnings (I just noticed that some false positives
> seem to be there - need to check the page creating code)
> Just commit the needed changes for the new version to VCS and ping
> the list for a sponsored upload.
> - "Go tagging" for missing DebTags (I learned in the Debian Science BOF
> that the DebTags concept is widely unknown :-()
Yes, I've never heard of it before, but I did some tagging now, just
to give it a try.
> - "Upload screenshot"
>
> Any work is helpful and as a newcomer you have quite good chances to
> softly dive into the pool of software which is there. Further down you
> can see packages which we started working but did not finished yet for
> different reasons. So you can have a look starting from
>
> http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio#pkgvcs-debs
>
> to find some more targets for your packaging attempt. Feel free to ask
> here first if you decided for a certain package - in most cases you will
> get useful hints.
>
>> You can add Serbian to the tasks, and I'll do my best to translate it
>> as soon as possible.
>
> I will do but currently ddtp.debian.net is down and thus the
> registration of Serbian (which seems to be not there currently). I'll
> observe this and will keep you informed.
>
> Welcome in the team
>
> Andreas.
>
> PS: I agree with you that dcm4chee is not really a task for a newcomer
> specifically without any love for Java. Some beer + pizza is just
> to less fee to become a Java expert. :-)
> Also the GinkoCADx issue is a bit tricky because the program itself
> is not the issue which needs fixing but rather some complex cmake
> multiarch stuff in connection with vtk - also nothing a newcomer
> should pick as first task.
>
> [1] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html
I'm so glad that I found you guys, this is so much better from "come
to Debian, there is so much work, you can do anything". Little
directions was everything I needed.
Greetings,
Karolina
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