On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Richard Winters <r...@mmogp.com> wrote: > > I'm not a 'debian' maintainer or developer...total newbie to alioth -> but > I'm a c++ developer with over 10 years experience. I'm experienced with > linux and more specifically debian development (just not officially). > > That said I'd love to get involved with Debian development -> I love debian > and live by it. Anyone willing to lemme help out would be great. I check on > alioth often...projects never seem to be posted for help...as a newbie I'm > confused how to get started -> I've read documentation yet most of these > emails looking for helping or specifying a package to be orphaned require a > dev or maintainer....some of the packages I've looked into helping out with > either dont have a buglist or are severely old and have dozens of helpers > already. > > I offer my help here because I tend to need the ICU packages for building > various things...if its gonna be orphaned I'd rather help out... >
Take a look at the how-can-i-help package to identify potential areas where you can contribute. For example, % how-can-i-help --show newcomer,RFH % how-can-i-help --old | less More details can be found in "man how-can-i-help". You can install this by "apt-get install how-can-i-help". raju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CABpbYaeBavGAkiY1HzO_a3majhfZgQU2m3Z=0wbth3w56ya...@mail.gmail.com