On Sep 7, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Edward Welbourne wrote:
Please consider to maintain and/or co-maintain some free packages for the distribution and become a DD.I have asked my boss whether we can treat the time I'd need for this as my training budget allocation; I'll see how that goes ;-) And thank you for the offer to be sponsor - I'll have a look at the work-needing page to see if I find something that appeals,
One quick way in might be to join a team, then you can share the burden of maintaining packages. It also provides a way to speak to experienced developers who have encountered many issues previously through the packaging team's mailing list. There are many teams, like the debian-perl team, which I am a member of.
If you go to http://alioth.debian.org/ and look on the bottom right- hand corner you'll see "Recently Registered Projects." Some of those are packaging teams which you can request to join.
Look forward to seeing your @debian.org email address. :^) Jeremiah