-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek wrote: | On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 08:07:24AM +0000, Helen Faulkner wrote: | | |>>In relation to this, I've been asked to mention an idea that I've been |>>kicking around for a few weeks, which has gotten a generally positive |>>reaction |>>on IRC. Since debian-women is all about helping women get involved in the |>>Debian project, and squashing RC bugs is an important area where the |>>project |>>definitely needs more people to get involved (and one that's close to my |>>heart as a release manager), I'd like to propose an "RC bugsquashing |>>tutorial" to coincide with the BSP this weekend. | | |>It's a great idea! | | |>What would you say the minimum appropriate level of technical skill is for |>someone to be able to get involved in this in some way or other (noting |>that I had no idea how to fix the last RC bug I looked at)? | | | Participants should know how to download, unpack, build, examine the | contents of, install, and run arbitrary packages from the Debian archive | (any branch) before trying to tackle RC bugsquashing. A basic familiarity | with the syntax of makefiles is also recommended, since both debian/rules | and upstream build scripts are likely to be written in this language.
You can find more information about downloading, unpacking, building and installing arbitrary packages in the APT HOWTO [0] [1], the online help of synaptic [2], the aptitude documentation [3] or the Debian Reference [4] [5]. For examining the contents of and running arbitrary packages you need some experience I guess. Please give pointers to more information if you can. More information about the syntax of makefiles can be found in the GNU Make Manual [6] Cheers Luk [0] /usr/share/doc/Debian/apt-howto from package apt-howto-en (or other languages: ca, de, el, es, fr, it, ja, ko, pl, pt-br, ru, tr) [1] http://www.nl.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#apt-howto [2] help menu in synaptic from package synaptic [3] /usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/index.html from package aptitude-doc-en ~ or aptitude-doc-cs [4] /usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/index.html from package debian-reference-en (or other languages: de, es, fr, it, ja, pl, pt-br, zh-cn, zh-tw) [5] http://www.nl.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#quick-reference [6] http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB2myh5UTeB5t8Mo0RAvXGAJ4u6B4l/+PvFfpzBOeoCOgwL3dK8gCgj8pq MbSHesNF+DAT96IhbKt9qDo= =REKD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
