Does anybody know of any small packages that may not require too much programming/scripting skill? Any body want any help with something? I don't have whole lot of time, nor do I have the resources to try a package on a different architecture.
Jake On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 11:57:48 +1100, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 07:28:42PM -0500, Jake Spieker wrote: > > I would like to do something small if possible, and as I understand > > it, there is a way so that I can help someone? I don't think I have > > the ability to do a package on my own. Other thoughts? > > You could act as a co-maintainer of a package, handling (for instance) bug > reports and testing prior to release. You could be a wandering minstrel of > bug fixing, randomly picking interesting looking bugs and trying to > reproduce them and giving aid to the maintainer and submitter all at once. > > As an example of this, take a look at http://bugs.debian.org/287160 -- even > after I've managed to read the bug report properly, I still can't reproduce > the problem on my system (I have to send a followup to say that, BTW). > Finding bugs like this, going through the report, and making a report along > the lines of "I can reproduce this bug, here's all the useful info" or "I > can't get this bug to appear either, and I tried this, this, this, and this" > are both quite useful -- it gives the maintainer and submitter both more > information. > > - Matt > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
