On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 10:24 PM Lou Poppler wrote: > I would like to help. ... > Please suggest any debian lists or IRC channels or webpages I should look at, > or other steps to make myself useful. Thanks.
The general page for how to help Debian is here: https://www.debian.org/intro/help More specifically, you could: Join the #debian-cd, #debian-boot, #debian-buildd, #debian-ftp, #debian-ports (introduce yourself here at minimum), #debian-release and #debian-toolchain IRC channels (and maybe #debian-devel). There isn't really a mailing list for i386, so maybe use debian-devel or debian-amd64. Help test the installer: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCD/ReleaseTesting Install and enable popularity-contest on your i386 machines and submit to the Linux hardware database. Encourage other i386 users to do the same. https://popcon.debian.org/ https://wiki.debian.org/Hardware/Database https://linux-hardware.org/ Create install wiki pages for the hardware you own: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn Help maintain the installer and documentation: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ Create a new i386 page in the Ports area on the wiki based on the template: https://wiki.debian.org/Ports https://wiki.debian.org/PortTemplate Maintain the other documentation about the i386 port: https://www.debian.org/ports/i386/ https://wiki.debian.org/i386 Create a scheme to tag i386-specific bugs (maybe user debian-devel, usertag i386) and maintain the installer usertags for debian-boot and the port usertags. Work on fixing the bugs tagged i386. https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=debian-b...@lists.debian.org&tag=i386 https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Debbugs/ArchitectureTags Work on increasing the amount of software that builds and works on i386: https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/ftbfs.cgi?arch=i386 https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=i386 https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/testing/index_suite_i386_stats.html https://ci.debian.net/status/ Follow #debian and #debian-next and help out any i386 users asking questions (although there aren't (m)any in practice). -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise