Re: I would like to help

[dblmr <dblmr@proton.me>]

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On Monday, August 26th, 2024 at 2:39 PM, Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> wrote:

> dblmr,
> 
> On Sunday, August 25, 2024 8:38:31 AM MST dblmr wrote:
> 
> > Good Morning,
> > 
> > I have a good familiarity with basic operation of emacs and git, and have
> > dabbled in various programming languages including Perl, Shell scripting,
> > Python and many others. My Spanish is very good, and English is my native
> > language. I could certainly do menial programming tasks, or help with
> > documentation or editing web pages. I love Debian software and values. If
> > anyone would like to discuss ways I could potentially help out, feel free to
> > email me directly.
> 
> 
> I’m excited to read your email. It is wonderful when users of Debian want to
> contribute to the project. That’s how I got started.
> 
> I would recommend that you start by looking for some aspect of Debian that you
> use that needs some help. For example, there may be a package that is lagging
> behind the upstream releases. Or, there may be some documentation on the a
> Debian website that needs to be improved. Or a translation that needs help.
> 
> In the case of a package, you can contact the current maintainers and ask if
> they would like some help. Having someone to guide you is a good way to get
> started. If the current maintainers are not responsive (orphaned or needing
> to be adopted), ask on this list for assistance with the package.
> 
> In the case of websites, many of them are Wikis, so you can get started
> improving them by just creating an account.
> 
> In general, I have found that working on Debian is most fulfilling when I am
> improving some aspect that I actively use myself.
> 
> --
> Soren Stoutner
> soren@debian.org

Thank you very much for the suggestions. I think they will get me going in the right direction. I think I might like to take over an orphaned package, if I could learn enough to do it. Could you give me some links to peruse, so I can get an idea of what it takes, and whether I might be able to bring my skills up to a sufficient level to get started?

Thanks,
Mark Opie

Mark Opie