Hello Ale. No disrespect to Martin, but a specific Debian mentor would benefit you. Giacomo Catenazzi is my Debian mentor, with contributions from Martin Pitt and Enrico Zini. A list is not a mentor. You need a mentor. The list does not assign mentors. It is up to you to find one. The experience of a volunteer project like Debian is that for DDs to seek random volunteers leads to bad results. The initiative must come from you. There are many hidden opportunities. For example, there is an opportunity right now with my own package Debram for a person with the right interest, attitude, patience and skill to contribute. But you have to search the opportunities out, to show the DD in question over a period of time that it is worth his time to mentor you. This is not because we don't like volunteers---we love volunteers---but because past experience is that something like 95 percent of enthusiastic new volunteers soon flame out and disappear. That is wreckage we can't handle. If you think that you are one of the 5 percent, then be patient, study some package interesting to you where the Maintainer seems to want help, prepare a small patch or two, and gradually see if you cannot work your way into the Project. If you do not know which package to look at first---well, I just suggested one, didn't I? Start there. Debian development is a lot of fun. If you choose to stay the course, we'll be glad to have you aboard. Good luck. Andreas Schuldei's 2005 DPL platform [1] is useful further reading in the matter. -- Thaddeus H. Black 508 Nellie's Cave Road Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA +1 540 961 0920, t@b-tk.org, thb@debian.org [1] http://www.debian.org/vote/2005/platforms/andreas [As a courtesy, this mail is copied to those whom it names. They are not expected to reply or even to read the mail.]
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