Fabian Köster wrote: > Hi Niels, > > thanks a lot for your help! I really appreciated that, because I really want > to become a Debian Maintainer and there are so many things you need to lern :) > >> Sounds good - You can upload it to mentors.debian.net, if you lack a >> place to upload it. mentors.debian.net also has templates for RFS [1] >> emails. > > OK, I did that but nobody seems to be interested. Are there more things I can > do for paving the packages' way? Does anyone maybe want to have a look on the > package and give some comments/advices? Or are there maybe other "beginner- > jobs" I can do for showing my interest in getting into the project? > > Kind Regards, > > Fabian Hi Fabian There are a lot of packages already in Debian, which could use a hand. You are more than welcome help us with these packages. [1] and [2] are more or less all the public java packages you can work on without asking for permissions. Basically, you can just pick a package from these lists that is older than the upstream version and try to build the new version. Alternatively you are always more than welcome to fix RC bugs (see [3]), though they may be very hard to fix. Just check out the package from the java team's VCS (in most cases SVN) and start working on it. You may also want to join the java IRC channel on irc.debian.org #debian-java; currently our java policy is very outdated, so you are usually better off talking with other Java-maintainers. Last but not least; while the wait may have seen long (I remember having that feeling for my first package), all of us are volunteers spending our spare time on this - it is not uncommon for us to be busy for a a couple of days or even a week. It is not that we are not interested, just that we are busy. ~Niels [1] http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/pet.cgi [2] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=maint&data=pkg-java-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org&archive=no&pend-exc=done&sev-inc=critical&sev-inc=grave&sev-inc=serious
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