Re: For Those Who Care About X (Bits from the X Strike Force)
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On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 05:58:42PM -0400, Denver Gingerich wrote:
> If you're interested in getting involved, here's a good opportunity.
> The Debian project is looking for people to get involved with
> maintaining parts of X. "You don't need to know much about X to help"
> according to the announcement so it would be a good fit for anyone
> with a cursory knowledge of C.
>
> [...snip...]
>
> Help needed
> -----------
> Some of the packages or areas have dedicated maintainers, and are
> maintained better than the rest. But we need more people to handle the
> rest of the packages: we have hardly enough manpower to do basic bug
> triaging and keep up with upstream, but most bugs don't get forwarded
> upstream or otherwise addressed.
>
> We would love to hear from people interested in improving this state.
> You don't need to know much about X to help, just be willing to learn a
> bit and sometimes dig in unholy C code. :)
I've never worked with a Debian project before, but I've got a knowledge
of C and have been inside some small parts of X code before and run a
Debian-based distro of some kind on all the desktops, laptops, and
servers that I use or manage. I would be willing to help out wherever
there is a need and I'm able. Just let me know.
> You don't need to be a DD, anyone who's interested is welcome. You can reach
> us on #debian-x on irc.debian.org, or on debian-x@lists.debian.org.
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Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma
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