>>> 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.
Thanks all for reply! I will register myself on Alioth and stay some time on mailing list like developer and mentors for learning from much skilled people! I read the backporting thread... not very sure on how can I help you but if you think there is a task that also a newbe can do, I'm here. (I consider myself a quite good user, but I have no experience as a maintainer... :-( ) Andrea ________________________________ Da: Steffen Moeller <[email protected]> A: Adam C Powell IV <[email protected]> Cc: Andrea Neroni <[email protected]>; [email protected] Inviato: Venerdì 25 settembre 2009, 14:53:04 Oggetto: Re: hi team! Adam C Powell IV wrote: Steffen
