Re: Elementary tasks in need for *tex?

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> wrote:

> Hi, Frank.
>
> On Jul 08 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 22:20 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
>> >> So, in order that I prepare a formal proposal (let's cross our fingers
>> >> and hope that they get interested!), what exactly is the work that
>> >> currently needs to be done, but that could be achieved by a novice? The
>> >> so-called "janitorial" tasks are ok.
>> >
>> > Not Debian specific, but the TeX Live people could need help updating
>> > their TEXMF tree. From the description Karl Berry posted on the TEX Live
>> > list, I could imagine that this would be doable for a novice.
>> 
>> But probably not without an experienced person supervising, which is
>> probably a task that Karl cannot do?
>
> I think that I'll subscribe to the texlive mailing list to see how
> things are going and to get familiar with the "modus operandi" of the
> group.

For a starter, see

http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2006-June/010386.html
http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2006-June/010407.html

and Karl's answer to the second one.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)