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RE: How to be a great Debian Developer



Bas,

I've looked at this page and had a brief discussion with Bastian on it.  I'm
somewhat of a noob to Linux and really green on the development side so my
question was.  How do I know if any of these packages listed on this page
are even still in use?  Many of the bug reports for a lot of these packages
are well over a year old.  Also, I need to start on some that are a little
smaller to align with my current skills (or lack thereof) to get started.
Any suggestions?

Thanks!!

Barry deFreese
NTS Technology Services Manager
Nike Team Sports
(949)-616-4005
Barry.deFreese@nike.com

"Technology doesn't make you less stupid; it just makes you stupid faster."
Jerry Gregoire - Former CIO at Dell



-----Original Message-----
From: Bas Zoetekouw [mailto:bas@debian.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:35 AM
To: Russell Coker
Cc: deFreese, Barry; 'debian-mentors@lists.debian.org'
Subject: Re: How to be a great Debian Developer


Hi Russell!

You wrote:

> One thing you could do is write a script that searches for a man page for 
> every binary on your system.  /usr/bin and /bin binaries deserve man pages
in 
> section 1, /usr/sbin and /sbin binaries deserve man pages in section 8.
If 
> you write a Perl script to search for such man pages you will should find 
> hundreds of them to be missing on a typical system (there's more than a
few 
> missing from my packages).  Then start writing some man pages!

There is already such a script, see http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html

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Kind regards,
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