No offence taken ;) What I meant is that the mailing list is a great place to start for the beginner. Those who don't know - but want to learn. From my experience - a lot of DDs dont want to "mother" you through learning how to package. Ok, they'll help, but they dont want to teach from scratch :D I agree - once at a certain stage, a "personal" mentor is a great idea... though it usually eveolves naturally that you find one :D Regards, Martin Meredith thb@debian.org wrote: > 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. >
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