Hi! * Fernanda G Weiden <fernanda@softwarelivre.org> [060626 10:05]: > So I decided to send this e-mail, because I don't know how to (re)start... Well, if you want to continue package something, it's a good idea to take a look at the packages you use, first. Install the package "devscripts". It contains a script called "wnpp-alert". (If you allready know, what "wnpp" means, skip this paragraph ;) "WNPP" means "work needing and prospectiv packages. wnpp's are special categories of bugs in our bug tracking system, to coordinate who's working on what and which packages need new maintainers. The most interestings right now are the "RFA", "RFH" and "O" wnpp-bugs. RFA is a "Request for adoption": The maintainer can't continue to take care of a package. "O" means orphaned, and means the package has curently no maintainer at all, and the (allways work overloaded) qa-team takes a bit care of it. "RFH" means "request for help": The maintainer still cares about the packages, but can't take the work load alone, needs someone who helps him. If you run "wnpp-alert", the script will take a look at the packages you have installed, and then looks them up in the wnpp-bugs, listing you all packages you have installed (and therefore might have some interest in them ;) which need new maintainers: Other interesting thing (especially since we want to realease in december): Fix some release-critical bugs. Again there's a nice script, which lists you the rc-bugs for the packages you have installed. Try to run "rc-alert", and take a look for those bugs. Try to reproduce them, write to the maintainer if you couldn't reproduce it, or if you could, how exactly you could. Try to fix the problem and prepare a patch. Or: Package something new. You have something installed under /usr/local? Go, package it! Some other might be interested in them to. Or look at the "RFP" (request for packaging) wnpp bugs. You mentioned you allready had gnome and mozilla-related packages. Well, GNOME is team maintained. You could join that team. Subscribe to their lists, help fix bugs or package new GNOME stuff. Mozilla isn't team maintained; but AFAIK they have a coordination list, too. You could subscribe there, and help fixing some mozilla bugs :) Other idea would be to join the localization team of your (native) language and translate documentation, debconf messages and all that stuff, to help make your people understand Debian. And of course you can subcribe to the debian-user-fooo@lists.debian.org lists (Warning: Some have quite high traffic) and help users solving problems with Debian (and learn so where we need to improve Debian). Yours sincerely, Alexander PS: Doh, almost forgot: Welcome back :) -- http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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