Hi Andreas, Thanks for your response! I read through the Med Group Policy and MoM documents.
I'm still a bit confused about where I should go about adding tests to the package as per the bug that I chose, and submitting them. Should I ask through the MoM list serv? ( Before seeing the documents you linked above, I had downloaded the source of the package ProDa and created a folder called Debian/Tests/Control as per some Debian documentation. Reading the Med Group Policy document, it seems like that's not how I am supposed to do it?) Thanks Rafiya On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 5:35 PM Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: > Hi Rafiya, > > thanks for your interest in Debian Med. > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 07:21:41PM +0000, Rafiya Javed wrote: > > Hope this email finds you well. I'm an applicant to the Outreachy summer > > internship program, and came across a couple of project ideas for Debian > > that listed you as a mentor. > > I take the freedom to forward my answer quoting your mail to the Debian > Med mailing list since all our communication will happen there anyway. > > > I'm pretty interested in contributing to the Debian Med project. I was > > wondering if you're still looking for applicants for that and if so, I > just > > wanted to let you know that I'll get try to tackle this bug: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848332 > > Fine. Please observe this thread[1] which bug might be taken by some > other Outreachy applicant. > > > Also - about me: I'm actually an MD that defected from the world of > > medicine, and I'm doing a CS masters. I'm not exactly a PhD in > > bioinformatics (in case that's what's required for this) but I have a > > strong technical background (BS physics, did computational neuro research > > during med school) and I think I have a good feel for the nature of > > healthcare/biological data. > > Sounds good. > > > I've never contributed to Debian (or understood the package manager) > > before, so I expect that the initial setup will take me the most time. If > > you have any tips, I am all ears :) > > For this purpose we have the Debian Med policy document[2] and the > Mentoring of the Month project[3]. Please have a look there and do not > hesitate to ask here. (The please ask here advise is valid for any other > reader here.) > > > Thanks! > > Rafiya > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2017/03/msg00035.html > [2] https://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html > [3] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM > > -- > http://fam-tille.de >
