Hi Shayan,
Glad to hear you are willing to contribute! Whatever you choose to work on, there are a few prerequisites that you will benefit from. I suggest you do the following while you are still looking around:
1. Join the Debian Med team.
2. Subscribe to the mailing list (I assume you have done this already)
3. Create a GPG key (if you don't have one)
You may as well give a look in list of bugs in Debian Med-maintained packages [1], maybe you'll find something you can fix, to begin with.
Best,
Andrius
[1]
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=debian-med-packaging%40lists.alioth.debian.orgHello Andrius,
Many thanks for your reply!
As of this moment, I am looking at the options I have as to what packages I can create or if pre-existing, maintain. As a newcomer it's a little bit hard as to find what package as to work on. Unless there's a recommendation with a package that requires a little bit extra help, I am still searching.
I will let you know if I spot anything as I have nothing in mind yet, but please let me know if there is a recommended outstanding package that maybe you have in mind that requires attention.
Thanks,
Shayan Doust
July 1, 2019 3:36 PM, merkys@debian.org wrote:
> Hi Shayan,
>
> On 2019-07-01 16:53, hello@shayandoust.me wrote:
>
>> I am a newcomer and I have been reading and educating myself with the documentation available with
>> regards to packaging and package maintenance.
>
> Welcome! :)
>
>> Preferably, to be pointed into a more concrete and right direction, I would be interested with the
>> Mentoring of the Month act.
>
> Do you have a particular source package you would like to package for
> Debian? I am relatively fresh to Debian Med, but I would happily help
> you (short delays are possible) provided the package falls under my
> sphere of knowledge of Debian :)
>
> Best wishes,
> Andrius
>
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> Andrius Merkys
> Vilnius University Institute of Biotechnology, Saulėtekio al. 7, room V325
> LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania