Re: Willing to assist
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 11:22:29 -0600, T.J. Duchene wrote:
> I'd like to help if someone will guide me through the process of joining
> Debian.
There is a lot of useful information at http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ .
I'm sure people here are willing to answer any specific questions you may
have that are not answered there.
> I've had to compile/install many a program to update Debian 2.2 since its
> release: gtk, glibc, and the entire X system to name a few.
Why not run testing instead? Testing is stable enough for workstations, and
even for some server applications (provided it is administered by a sysadmin
familiar with Debian and its development process). For some server
applications, stable (+ backports if necessary) may still be a better
choice, but for workstations, I see no reason not to go with testing, in
particular if you already possess the skills to build programs from source
(which indicates you can provide useful bug reports for issues with
testing).
> I think it would be better to concentrate on getting woody ready than
> doing five 2.2 revisions.
2.2 is not under anything remotely resembling active development. Work done
on 2.2 is security fixes only, and will continue as long as 2.2 is the
current stable release.
> When is woody due for release,
When it is ready.
> and what can I do to help?
Start reading at http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ , lurk on debian-devel
for some time, and you'll know how you can help.
> Is it in code freeze,
Woody is frozen in stages. See
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2001/debian-devel-announce-200111/msg00016.html
and other posts to debian-devel-announce.
HTH,
Ray
--
Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing toward oblivion.
Dogbert
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