Re: devlopment w/ Debian
"pico" <wnowak1@linkwall.com> wrote:
> I'm a student at studying computer science at a university. Besides =
> coding on my own, I would like to become a member of the Debian =
> community and help work on projects that you currently work on. I would =
> like to contribute. Please let me know how I can join Debian.
Welcome, Wally. Congratulations, you just joined Debian. ;-) Further
actions that you can do w/o having to jump through hoops:
* Join Debian email lists and contribute to the discussions
* Visit http://bugs.debian.org/<packagename> and start sending in
patches to fix bugs. Hit the more important ones first and work
your way down.
* Visit http://qa.debian.org and contribute to the TODO list
* Meet with some of the Debian Developers in your area and exchange
OpenPGP keys (GnuPG).
Of course, if you really want to, you could adopt an orphaned package or
a requested (but as of yet unpackaged) software item. For some reason,
people think that to "join" Debian, you must be a developer and you must
maintain a package. This simply isn't true.
Personally, I became a developer because no one was maintaining a
package I used on a regular basis, pnm2ppa. I am not the most active
developer, but I'm certainly active advocate -- pushing Debian on to as
many systems as possible. ;-) You'll find yourself contributing to
Debian more often when projects or packages interest you personally or
professionally. Remember that over time, a collection of small patches
can add up to a large contribution.
--
Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net> http://www.wookimus.net/
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