On Mon, 2021-11-01 at 14:45 +0000, Ileana Dumitrescu wrote: > Hello everyone! I wanted to start contributing to Debian. Excellent! Welcome to the Debian community :) There are many different ways to contribute listed here: https://www.debian.org/intro/help If you find any unfamiliar language while you are interacting with the Debian community, our glossary is available on the wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/Glossary > I read about a mentors program and I wanted to know if it is still > active? While most mentoring in Debian is not one-on-one, the Debian's few mentoring programs are documented here (some pages may be out of date): https://wiki.debian.org/Mentoring Most mentoring in Debian happens via people asking questions in public on the Debian mailing lists or IRC channels or forums and the people who know the answer to those questions replying publicly. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists https://wiki.debian.org/IRC https://www.debian.org/support#web > I've been reading a lot about Debian and there's so much to learn so I > think joining a team could help too. Can I just email any team I want > to join? Contributing to a team is a great way to join Debian. The best way to join a team is to read the documentation written by the team, join their mailing list and IRC channel and introduce yourself and your interests within Debian on their mailing list and start contributing to the list of tasks the team has documented. For most teams you can contribute without being a team member yet, by sending merge requests on salsa or patches to the Debian BTS. https://wiki.debian.org/Teams > I like computer architecture and I have some sysadmin experience if > there are thoughts on where I could help out? You might enjoy helping port Debian and individual packages in Debian to different computer architectures or new hardware. Most of the discussion about architectures happens on the #debian-ports IRC channel. Most architectures have a mailing list and some have their own IRC channel. For supporting new hardware of existing architectures, the Debian Installer team is a good place to get involved. https://www.debian.org/ports/ https://wiki.debian.org/Ports https://wiki.debian.org/PortsDocs/New https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianInstaller https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller You might want to package software you use for sysadmin tasks that isn't yet available in Debian, or assist with the packaging and maintenance of sysadmin software that is already in Debian. https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers/ You might want to contribute to the configuration and software for existing debian.org services or to the management of those services. https://wiki.debian.org/Services https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DSA https://dsa.debian.org/ -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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