Looking for a mentor

2009-10-29 Thread David Farning
Hello mentors, I am looking for a mentor to help me get started packaging the Sugar Learning Platform[1] for Ubuntu. About a year ago I started by forming the ubuntu-sugarteam[2]. Due to the lead packager getting a new job and conflicts with upstream, the team petered out. I am taking another s

Re: Steps to become MOTU

2009-10-29 Thread Charlie Smotherman
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 09:58 -0400, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: > Matthias, > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > > [...] > > > Thank you! At time people aren't very happy about my patches, because my > > lack of C skills. > > I'm in the same boat. I'm not great at C,

Re: Steps to become MOTU

2009-10-29 Thread Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
Matthias, On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: [...] > Thank you! At time people aren't very happy about my patches, because my > lack of C skills. I'm in the same boat. I'm not great at C, but I manage. And obvious, practice counts for a lot -- your skills will keep improvi

Re: Steps to become MOTU

2009-10-29 Thread Matthias Klumpp
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:52:32 +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote: > The process > people usually follow to become Ubuntu developers is quite simple: > > * work on Ubuntu, get patches reviewed and uploaded by existing > Ubuntu developers (sponsoring: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sponsor

Re: Steps to become MOTU

2009-10-29 Thread Matthias Klumpp
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:52:32 +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote: > The process > people usually follow to become Ubuntu developers is quite simple: > > * work on Ubuntu, get patches reviewed and uploaded by existing > Ubuntu developers (sponsoring: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sponsor

Re: Steps to become MOTU

2009-10-29 Thread Matthias Klumpp
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:01:45 -0500, Charlie Smotherman wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 14:14 +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote: >> Hello! >> How is the plan to make the sponsoring-process more transparent going on? > > Please contact huats < christophe.sauth...@gmail.com > he is the person > you need t

Re: Steps to become MOTU

2009-10-29 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Matthias, Am Mittwoch, den 28.10.2009, 14:14 +0100 schrieb Matthias Klumpp: > How is the plan to make the sponsoring-process more transparent going on? > I sent my application nearly half a year ago and I know that there are > several other people who want to become MOTU (and have the necess