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Re: Debian infra services and tools looking for programming contributions



Heya, thanks for this initiative!

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 03:36:15PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> I'm planning a talk titled "I'm a programmer, how can I help Debian?" in
> which I intend to present contribution opportunities for people who are
> programmers, but are not necessarily interested in packaging. My plan is
> to present several Debian infrastructure services and tools that could
> receive contributions, highlighting a few where contributions could have
> a larger impact in the community (IMO).
> 
> For services, my starting point is https://wiki.debian.org/Services For
> tools, I currently have a list of the ones I usually contribute to, but
> can add more.
> 
> Not the part where I need your help. I'm looking for people who maintain
> or contribute to a Debian infrastructure service or tool that could use
> some help with programming, have the availability to provide some
> mentoring for someone who is already a programmer but not necessarily
> already involved with Debian, and would like your project to be
> highlighted in such a talk.
> 
> If that's you, please reply to this message and provide some information
> about your service or tool. Package names are enough for tools in the
> archive, otherwise links/wiki pages/etc are appreciated. Please also
> mention a contact point (IRC channel, mailing list etc).

sources.debian.org, AKA Debsources, could use some help. I'm definitely
MIA on it, and the bulk of code maintenance is being assured by Mathieu
alone, including migration to Python 3 (thanks!). Having someone else
would be good, and I think it might be a piece of infra that might be
interesting to work on even for people that don't have a lot of Debian
insider knowledge.

Links:

- service: https://sources.debian.org/
- code: https://salsa.debian.org/qa/debsources
- bugs:
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;include=subject%3Adebsources;package=qa.debian.org

Hope this helps and thanks again !
Cheers
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