Re: Configure your PC to contribute to Debian community

Contributing is a good thing for people whom wish to be a part of the. debian.org the name, the domain name.

Personally my wishes were to be part of the Debian holder, advocate, sponsors and security members.

Vipul try to work on aescrypt tool and ask Evengi the developer to integrate it in the ftp master, it's your first exercise.

BSD, GPL licenses are welcome into the file.

You could focus on these keys words :

IETF, GNU, Debian, Kernel.

Whenever you become part of Debian team, do your best to hold packages from FreeBSD the Berkley os.

Regards,

Ali MEZGANI

nativelabs.ma

Le jeu. 9 mai 2019 à 00:33, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> a écrit :

On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 11:28 PM Vipul wrote:

> PS: I've already asked this question debian-users mailing list but seems like this place is more appropriate to ask these type of questions.

Check out the guide for getting packages into Debian:

https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers

> I've been using Debian from couples of years but haven't contributed yet back to community.

There are a number of different ways to contribute to Debian:

https://www.debian.org/intro/help

> I want to contribute to Debian by maintaining packages and fixing bugs.

The best way to contribute is to work on packages that you use and the
best way to find opportunities for that is to install and run the
how-can-i-help package:

https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help

> Is there a way to get isolation for work & contribution purpose to keep yourself organized?

If you do not have a spare computer, the best option would be a
virtual machine, since you can then test newer versions of the whole
system. Some options for this include gnome-boxes or virt-manager.

> I want to hear from contributors & maintainers Which method they are using or prefer to get isolation?

Personally I'm using Debian testing and do package building in
pbuilder chroots of unstable.

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bye,
pabs

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