Package: how-can-i-help
Version: 6
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
Thank you for the wonderful package. I do see that esp. for newbies
it's a bit of a daunting package.
For e.g. the only hints provided are :-
$$ how-can-i-help --help
Usage: how-can-i-help [options]
-h, --help show help
-v, --version show version
-a, --all show opportunities for
contribution to all packages
-o, --old show old opportunities for contribution
-q, --quiet do not display header and footer
Using -a is a bit of a waste as it just gives a pointer to -old apart
from giving the wiki link.
how-can-i-help -a
====== How can you help? (doc: http://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help ) ======
----- Show old opportunities as well as new ones: how-can-i-help --old -----
What would perhaps be more useful is to have something like :-
$how-can-help --gift
This way a newbie contributor can start in a jiffy. Also it should
have some difference in the bandwidth used as well.
This could be used a bit positively perhaps, to nudge new contributors
to get into Debian.
Just my 2 paise.
I did two invocations but neither worked :-
$how-can-i-help --gift
$how-can-i-help | grep gift
$
In fact the first one showed me the following :-
$ how-can-i-help --gift
/usr/bin/how-can-i-help:71:in `<main>': invalid option: --gift
(OptionParser::InvalidOption)
Looking forward to it becoming a possible option to be parsed :)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-updates'), (1,
'experimental'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages how-can-i-help depends on:
ii ruby 1:1.9.3.4
ii ruby-debian 0.3.8+b2
ii ruby-json 1.8.0-1+b1
how-can-i-help recommends no packages.
how-can-i-help suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Regards,
Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
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