Re: Contribution help
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 9:07 AM Alex Davyskiba wrote:
> Hello all, first all I hope that's the right mailing list to start with.
We generally suggest debian-mentors for newcomers interested in
helping out with Debian, although this list is fine too.
> I've been using Debian for the last ten years and now it's time
> to give it back. I'm a professional web developer and want to help
> somehow to the project but the only thing I can do great is the web.
Which web technologies are you proficient in? Debian services use a
lot of Python, some Perl or PHP and fewer use other languages.
> So based on wishlist (https://wiki.debian.org/Services#wishlist)
In addition to the wishlist, a lot of the existing services could use
some helpers. One of the highest impact ones is the Debian Package
Tracker, since package maintainers look at it before uploads.
https://tracker.debian.org/
> I'd like to try to provide some useful web-service.
> And I want to hear the best candidate that I can work with.
Personally I would suggest helping with the tracker, the Debian
packages website or some of the QA services:
https://packages.debian.org/
https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org
The service I started could also use some help but it isn't really a
web service.
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/e5e75cd7a4ecfd9129b31af2daed9054606b0860.camel@debian.org
> As I see it's "Web interface to the contents of binary packages"
This project is complementary to the Debian sources website, Debian
codesearch and kind of an extension of the binarycontrol website.
https://sources.debian.org/
https://codesearch.debian.net/
https://binarycontrol.debian.net/
> but I'd like to hear other suggestions.
If you do decide to create a new service it might be worth starting a
discussion and or survey about which Debian services are most wanted
by the contributor community, probably on the debian-devel mailing
list.
> And if possible, please suggest someone who I can chat for any
> kind of questions and not to be annoying in mail list.
The #debian-mentors IRC channel is probably a good place to chat about this.
https://wiki.debian.org/IRC
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pabs
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