Re: I want to contribute to debian
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 12:24 AM Apoorv Srivastava wrote:
> I wanted to get started with contribution to Debian. I am completely new to open source and am thinking to start my contribution in c or python, I am a first year undergraduate so I don’t have much advanced knowledge about either of the two languages but I am eager to learn. If you can help me get started it would be a great help.
In addition to the tips given by Jean-Philippe:
Since you are a student, the Google Summer of Code programme is a
great way to get involved, your next GSoC opportunity will be in 2020
though:
https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2019
At the moment we are going through the transition from Python 2 to
Python 3 so there is a lot of work to do porting software between the
two variants of Python.
https://wiki.debian.org/Python/2Removal
http://sandrotosi.me/debian/py2removal/
A great way to find opportunities to help with packages you use is to
install and run the how-can-i-help tool:
https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help
A lot of Debian services are written in Python and need folks to contribute:
https://wiki.debian.org/Services
The Debian package manager (dpkg) is written in C:
https://www.dpkg.org/
There are some other ideas for different ways to contribute to Debian here:
https://www.debian.org/intro/help
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bye,
pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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