Hi Nishant, On 11/21/18 6:57 PM, Nishant Rajput wrote: > Hi! > I am Nishant Rajput, a not much of an expert programmer but a great Linux > enthusiast for more than a year , just learnt that GSoC '19 was announced. There's no hurry. I think this years GSoC organisations were only announced in February, so there is still a lot of time until then...
> Since then, actively researching and learning about Debian community and > how can i start contributing... But I'm finding it pretty intimidating to > find something i can start within WNPS as i have no professional experience > and a beginner in open source contribution, but i wish to be a part of > Debian sooner or later, so i can help those packages which in need,or > requested. Yeah, Debian is a big project with a lot of moving parts, it can be intimidating from time to time. If you want to help fixing bugs, there is a "newcomer" tag, which lists bugs that are ideal for new contributors to get involved in Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=newcomer If you want to get into Debian packaging i suggest you have a look at the Debian New Maintainer's Guide (https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/) to get an idea. On https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/requested_byage you can find a list of packages that are not in Debian yet but were requested by someone- maybe there is something there you find interesting? Another useful resource is the introduction for maintainers https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers For GSoC project ideas, as mentioned in other mails, i suggest to have a lookt at the projects of the last few years, they are listed on https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2018 and in the GSoC archive on https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/ cheers, Birger > > Can i get some help here?I wish to start learning more in Linux, and if > possible look forward to get selected for GSoC this year, if not then next. > > P.S. - > * I know C/C++ , Java , and started learning Ruby, JavaScript and Python > from Pluralsight and perhaps, will be done by them till end of Jan and > would be done with learning a VCS i.e,Git by end of the month. > * Sorry to bother if its considered a spam, but I've tried connecting to > some previous years' GSocers under Debian on LinkedIn for guidance, but > seems they're not much active. > * I'm still in process of learning about Debian, like reading some > documentations including Debian's Reference, Developers Reference, Handbook > and few other, as it's itself pretty vast and deep to explore. > * If i went wrong somewhere in deciding the learning path, i'll be thankful > for additional help. > > Thanks in advance, > Nishant >
