Hello, >> I already downloaded and analyzed the source code so I want to start >> working on it. Also, what does maintaining means? Just correcting >bugs >> or improving it? Like UI or something? > >Maintaining a package is to do all the work of taking a non-Debian work >and making it a Debian package, conforming with Debian policy, >receiving >and addressing bug reports on the package, advocating for its users, >and >so on.
Have in mind you don't need to be a programmer to do such work; many packages just need lintian cleaning (debian/*) and bug fixing, which can often be either easily fixed or forwarded to upstream :-) Cheers! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
