[cc: to you, don't know if you read the list. But please don't cc: me when you answer, thanks.] On Wednesday 01 December 2004 06.35, Marcus McDuffie wrote: > I have an idea, tell me what you think. It would be a project called > DMC – or “Debian Management Console.” Have you looked at the archive of this mailing list? This has been under discussion on and off for the past few moths. Also, Recently here and on debian-devel, a Debian port of YaST (which, afaict, does a lot of what you propose already) is being discussed. Have you looked at webmin? It does most of what you're looking for - it's not a gtk2 interface, but depending on how that is written it might be possible to separate out the frontend part from the backend part and write webmin/gtk2 (now that's so obvious I'm certain it has already been discussed.) > I am not a developer, and I have no knowledge of programing. I just > think that this would be a cool project and would be willing to help in > any way I could. What probably would be helpful is if you could first read through the old discussions, look at the existing solutions, look at what arguments pro and contra were made and summarize this. Yes, it's certainly more work than just having an idea and writing it down, but you wanted to do work, not? > P.S – is there a clearing house anywhere that pairs up developers > looking to start new projects with people that have ideas? if their > isn't their should be. I'm guessing here, but all developers who deserve the name have already more than enough ideas what they could develop next. Most people I've seen asking 'I want to help but I have no idea where' disappear again quite quickly - solving a hairy problem that is not your own is bad for your motivation. And, of course, as always: if you want to help Debian, there's a lot of places: - Translations - testing the installer - go through the bug database, look at old bugs and try to reproduce them. If you can, fix them. If you're interested in computers, become a programmer. take google, find a nice tutorial on programming, start playing around. If you've written web pages before, have a look at PHP or similar web programming languages, that may be an interesting way to start programming because you can actually do useful things quite quickly - and once you've understood PHP, you should have not problem with Perl, Python, ruby and most other scripting languages. To C/C++ is a bigger step, but in the end, there's not that much difference from Perl to C - it's still a very typical programming language. It's all not that difficult, it just takes quite a bit of time to learn. But once you've mastered a few programming languages, you'll be able to actually implement all those ideas you're having. greetings -- vbi -- TODO: apt-get install signify
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