Hi Zach, earache_curtsy750@simplelogin.com, on 2024-02-28: > I am a sysadmin who manages dozens of Debian servers. I also use Debian for my personal computing. I am very thankful to the Debian project and would love to give back to it somehow. > > I was thinking that maintaining one or more packages would be a great way to do this. I know a bit of Java and C but do not write code on a regular basis (other than bash scripts). > > I am asking for a sanity check on whether or not this is a good idea, or if the work of maintaining a package is only plausible for highly skilled software engineers. We welcome contributions independently of contributors background; this is important so people have complementary skill sets to prepare something as complex as an operating system: integrating programs of course, but also translation work, art themes, etc. In particular, as a packager, one deals mostly with build systems, not necessarily with upstream programming languages (although this can be useful when dealing with bug reports), and I found out my own IT background served me immensely for such work. I would thus encourage you to investigate further which packages you would like to help maintain in Debian. Have a nice day, :) -- .''`. Étienne Mollier <emollier@debian.org> : :' : pgp: 8f91 b227 c7d6 f2b1 948c 8236 793c f67e 8f0d 11da `. `' sent from /dev/pts/1, please excuse my verbosity `- on air: Karmakanic - Two Blocks From The Edge
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