On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 01:08:53PM +0530, Shobhit Singh wrote: > I want to start contribute to Debian Science (especially maths and logic). If you are interested in math, you might want to check out the debian math team[1] > What are all the ways I can contribute to this team? Number of ways, - New packages - Updating very old packages (lying around) to latest versions (ofcourse ensuring nothing else breaks) - Fixing bugs -- we have a number of them[2] - Doing QA work, adding autopkgtests[3] - Making packages reproducible, working on cross-buildability etc For more exhaustive answer if you are looking for what to contribute, I would recommend going over Paul's email here[4]. > Where should I get started? What are the preferred resources for learning > Debian packaging and maintenance? Videos: https://laotzu.ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/debian-meetings/2021/DebConf21/debconf21-142-live-packaging-workshop.webm https://debconf21.debconf.org/talks/49-building-from-source-tutorial/ More videos on: https://peertube.debian.social/ Docs: https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/Intro https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Math [2]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=debian-science-maintainers@alioth-lists.debian.net [3]: https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/autopkgtest [4]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2022/02/msg00004.html -- Best, Nilesh
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