On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:22:48 +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote: > On Sep 15, 2009, at 8:21, Dusty Wilson [Megagram] wrote: Welcome also from me! > >I'm not a DD. What does it take to begin helping out with random > >tasks in the Debian Perl group? > The first big step is your email that you sent, the second is > lurking on the IRC channel - you'll see the various repository bots > posting commits from the svn repo and you'll get an idea of what is > being done and how people do it. Look at the Package Entropy Tracker > as well: http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/pet.cgi Ack, PET is indeed our centre for coordination, and might also answer a bit the question what you can do in practice: - if you enjoy tracking down nasty bugs start at the top and look at the release-critical bugs - if you like to do general package maintainance you can help with upgrading the packages that have a newer upstream release available - the section "with bugs" closer to the bottom could also use some eyeballs - probably quite a few bugs need more triaging (do the bugs still apply? does upstream / the CPAN RT know about them?) than heavy coding - and of course new packages are possible too :) The various docs at http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/ should explain most of the techicalities (from our subversion use till our policy for various aspects of packages), and always feel free to ask on the list or on IRC. > >I've been writing in Perl since sometime around 1996. I've created > >several modules on the CPAN [0]. This experience will come in very handy for our team, thanks for joining! Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG Key IDs: 0x00F3CFE4, 0x8649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT, SPI Inc., fellow of FSFE | http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Dire Straits: Love Over Gold
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