Hi! Robert Millan wrote:
> 20:43 <bartm> right, hello robert > 20:43 <bartm> still need help with grub ? > 20:43 <bartm> not yet replaced by grub2... > 20:43 <bartm> i'm not sure how I can help besides commenting on the bug report > 20:44 <bartm> or can I do the next upload, to include the good patches ? [...] > 20:50 <nyu> if you want to help, you could subscribe to > pkg-grub-devel (debian) and grub-devel (upstream) and see if you can > comment on bug reports I'm doing a few seconds of triage of wnpp bugs. If I understand correctly, the grub team, like most maintenance teams of core packages, is looking for helpers and co-maintainers. I don't see grub listed at http://wiki.debian.org/Teams so it seems possible that potential helpers exist who do not know how to get their feet wet without establishing contact first and potentially (in their eyes) having to commit to helping out before knowing what it is like. What do you recommend for such hypothetical people? Could you suggest a few words of wisdom here, for someone to digest and add to the wiki as time allows? For example: - what mailing lists should interested people subscribe to? - are there existing documents on how to test new versions of grub in qemu to test changes or triage bugs? Is there an upstream page with documentation of the boot protocol and other helpful technical background? - any confusing policies or other pitfalls for new contributors? - what kind of help is needed at the moment --- tracking upstream development, testing, forwarding bugs, finding the commit that fixes bugs known to have been fixed, backporting changes to stable, hacking on maintainer scripts, packaging snapshots for experimental, reviewing proposed changes, coordinating uploads, finding good downstream fixes to apply, or something else? Once the information for potential helpers to get started is easy to find, I think this bug can be closed. Thanks and hope that helps, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120707232755.GA5996@burratino
