Bug#248397: GRUB 2 RFH
Hi!
Robert Millan wrote:
> 20:43 <bartm> right, hello robert
> 20:43 <bartm> still need help with grub ?
> 20:43 <bartm> not yet replaced by grub2...
> 20:43 <bartm> i'm not sure how I can help besides commenting on the bug report
> 20:44 <bartm> or can I do the next upload, to include the good patches ?
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> 20:50 <nyu> if you want to help, you could subscribe to
> pkg-grub-devel (debian) and grub-devel (upstream) and see if you can
> comment on bug reports
I'm doing a few seconds of triage of wnpp bugs.
If I understand correctly, the grub team, like most maintenance teams
of core packages, is looking for helpers and co-maintainers. I don't
see grub listed at http://wiki.debian.org/Teams so it seems possible
that potential helpers exist who do not know how to get their feet wet
without establishing contact first and potentially (in their eyes)
having to commit to helping out before knowing what it is like.
What do you recommend for such hypothetical people? Could you suggest
a few words of wisdom here, for someone to digest and add to the wiki
as time allows?
For example:
- what mailing lists should interested people subscribe to?
- are there existing documents on how to test new versions of grub in
qemu to test changes or triage bugs? Is there an upstream page
with documentation of the boot protocol and other helpful technical
background?
- any confusing policies or other pitfalls for new contributors?
- what kind of help is needed at the moment --- tracking upstream
development, testing, forwarding bugs, finding the commit that
fixes bugs known to have been fixed, backporting changes to stable,
hacking on maintainer scripts, packaging snapshots for
experimental, reviewing proposed changes, coordinating uploads,
finding good downstream fixes to apply, or something else?
Once the information for potential helpers to get started is easy to
find, I think this bug can be closed.
Thanks and hope that helps,
Jonathan
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