On 06/10/2011 06:55 AM, Han Chang wrote:
Hi Ubuntu Server Team,
my name is Han and I'm a graduate from Boston University with a
Master's degree in Computer Science. I'm looking to help contribute to
Ubuntu and saw your page at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Mentoring and would love to get a
mentor to show me to ropes. I'm primarily looking for software
development contribution methods but am happy to start small through
packaging and bug fixes. Looking forward to hearing from you!
Cheers,
Hi Han,
Thanks for contacting the server mailing list, currently the best way to
get involved is to jump-in and start fixing simple problems till you're
ready to move onto more complex tasks. Check out the server paper-cuts
bugs page at https://bugs.launchpad.net/server-papercuts for good
starting points. If you're interested in working on any of those, you'll
probably find the new packaging guide useful
http://people.canonical.com/~dholbach/packaging-guide/singlehtml/
<http://people.canonical.com/%7Edholbach/packaging-guide/singlehtml/> as
well as #ubuntu-motu channel. Also, I'd like to encourage you to check
out Ensemble <https://ensemble.ubuntu.com/>, a cloud deployment and
orchestration tool that is getting a lot of focus during the 11.10
cycle. Writing formulas to cover your favorite open-source application
is a great way to get started, pick up any "Formula needed" bug from
https://bugs.launchpad.net/principia and check out the docs at
https://ensemble.ubuntu.com/docs/. IRC channel #ubuntu-ensemble is great
for asking questions relating to Ensemble
You can find "coding" related bugs for Ensemble at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ensemble from which you might want to start
with simpler ones such as
684573 - Fix inconsistencies in naming
781920 - Signal handling for the cli, ctrl-c should be able to interupt
754318 - Add register cleanup utility to cli
716401 - No README (documentation)
769036 - Ensemble hook cli api needs to do correct exit codes
Otherwise checkout http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-oneiric/ for a
general overview of things being worked on for Oneiric server, pick a
task you're interested in helping get-done, and start hacking. Let me
know once you have decided what you'd like to do, and I can help you
with the next step. Enjoy :)
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