On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 18:12 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.net> writes: > > I ran "aptitude search '~i!~M' | head" to find a package to start > > working on, and the first one that came up was acpi-support, so I > > looked it up on PTS and got started. > > Thank you *much* more for looking at existing packages that need help, > rather than performing a drive-by addition of a new package which is > regrettably common. Seconded. It is rare indeed and much to be encouraged. Note to any other maintainers looking for sponsorship - fixing one of the 20,000 packages we already have will gain you great merit in the eyes of potential sponsors. Adding yet-another-vanity-package for the sake of adding a package will discourage sponsors. > > Maybe this isn't the right way to start, but I'm more interested in > > bug squashing and maintenance for packages I use than anything else. > > You are a rare gem, then, and I hope to see much more of this :-) Another way to search for packages to improve is to use the scripts already in the devscripts package - wnpp-alert and rc-alert. http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc-alert http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wnpp-alert -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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