Per Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 8. Publicise more clearly the places where new people could help > > out. I'm commonly asked by people how they could get involved in > > Debian, or what tasks most urgently need help, and those are quite > > difficult things to answer. A more focussed set of web pages and/or > > wiki pages targeting these questions would be a great thing to > > have. > > A new usertag was introduced into the BTS a while ago, the > gift tag. [0] [1] Being a newbie in Debian, the BTS and > contributing to the free software community I thought this > was a great idea. It seems that the gift tag isn't used that > much though [2]. It would be great if the gift tag gained > popularity. > > There exists pages on w.d.o that targets how to get started > with help out. [3] [4] Perhaps there is a need for a more > clean path to finding out how to get started, a start would be > to put links on the frontpage of w.d.o and [5] to get directly > to the help guide [4]. As it is now, the path there is quite > long and IMHO you need to know what you are looking for. > > [0] http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/GiftTag > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/12/msg00679.html > [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED];tag=gift > [3] http://debian.org/devel/join/ > [4] http://wiki.debian.org/HelpDebian > [5] http://debian.org/devel/
Excellent info, thanks. [4] is very useful. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]