Adam C Powell IV wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:31 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: >> Hello Andrea, >> >> Le vendredi 25 septembre 2009 à 08:01 +0000, Andrea Neroni a écrit : >>> Hi, >>> I'm graduated in physic and actually a student for the Master of >>> science, Debian user from some years. Recently I decided to spend some >>> of my free time >>> to collaborate with Debian. >>> I would want to join the Debian Science Team because some packages are >>> useful in my studies and everywhere developer recommend to join a team >>> to start contribution. >>> Since I'm new to this I need a bit of help for improving my knowledge >>> of the Debian distribution and packaging/mantaining the system. >>> >>> How can I collaborate with you? >> There are different ways of doing it. >> >> The main one is to upload and maintain new packages in the archive. >> You can also help us by fixing some bugs and participate to the >> maintenance of the packages you are using. > > Simpler than uploading and maintaining packages is just testing them, > and filing bugs where appropriate, or making "wishlist" suggestions. A > lot of people just use packages, find something wrong, and gripe to > themselves without notifying the package maintainer. > > And there is always a need for better documentation, so if you find > something difficult, try to think of a way to explain it so the next > person has an easier time, and send it to the package maintainer.
In a parallel thread we are just looking for someone to help with the automated backporting of scientific packages for earlier releases of Debian. This would provide a considerable overview on packages in our distribution and probably lead to tons of candidates for side-projects ... or provide contacts for some scientific work. Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
