Hello, In last days, and thanks to the discussions with my mentors, through IRC, mumble, and emails, I got a good start with the project.
First I successfully setup a Debian chroot environment in order to test, package and develop. [1] Next, I've tried to build an app[2] using only the packaged android-SDK, this process helped me to spot multiple bugs that I that I reported (problems about JDK[3], Gradle[4], aapt[5], fastboot[6]...). Reporting this bugs helped either open discussions about them and explain the issue and try to understand them, or, fix them by committing patches to my fork on gitlab[7], review them, then push them to Alioth[8]. While working on all of this, I also learned many things about Debian developing[9] and maintaining[10] and more understanding the manuals that I've already read and put this knowledge to practical cases. This few days my experience with Debian has grown a lot ! and I feel more excited than ever to work on this project ! [1]: http://aallam.com/debian-chroot-in-ubuntu/ [2]: https://github.com/guardianproject/ripple [3]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826761 [4]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826870 [5]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827056 [6]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826991 [7]: https://gitlab.com/Aallam/debian_android-sdk-meta/commit/a2a8ab7e1a715d3f8a878de11f4e9bb25564bae6 [8]: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/android-tools/android-sdk-meta.git/commit/?id=347f2b5d5f82b5f796d82cc0affa13d094f302d7 [9]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer [10]: https://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals *Mouaad AALLAM*
