Re: New contributor to Debian
I second Eric on that.
It's good that you have a spark for contributing and I feel genuine
sympathy for you as I went down that path too. However, nobody
can/want/will choose the area you want to get involved with for you, the
thinking and decision should come from you.
It helps if you already have an itch to scratch. For instance, I got
involved with packaging because a specific software library that I
heavily use at work was not available in the main archive.
Regardless of the area of contribution, there will be a fair bit of
documentation to process before starting, as Eric pointed out. If you
are interested in packaging in particular, the Debian maintainer and
developer's reference is a must read, but more specific instructions
will also be given depending on the team you join (Python, Java,
science, GNOME, KDE...). I suggest to keep a separate bookmarking
section for that in your browser.
Good luck on your journey to contributing.
Ghis
On Sat, 2014-05-31 at 04:14 +0200, Eric L. wrote:
> Hi Perrin,
> you might want to start with https://www.debian.org/intro/help to
> decide on what you exactly want to do to work on contributing to
> Debian, which is a rather broad concept.
> If indeed you want to help package software, which is the topic of
> this list, your next step is probably to read and understand
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/.
> To be honest with you, nobody will take you by the hand from A to Z,
> there is a fair amount of self-learning involved, but if you have
> specific questions about packaging, ask them here, and you shall get
> specific answers.
> Hope this helps,
> Eric
> PS: allowing myself to make your subject slightly more specific.
>
> On 31 May 2014 01:43:16 CEST, Perrin Shabot <perrin_shabot@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> Hello. I am new to most all of Linux but have experience developing
> software. If someone is available to mentor and/or sponsor that would be
> awesome. Trying to get the ball rolling with contributing :-)
>
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