Re: For Those Who Care About X (Bits from the X Strike Force)

[Brice Goglin]

Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 19:34:07 -0400, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
>
>   
>> I've never worked with a Debian project before, but I've got a knowledge
>> of C and have been inside some small parts of X code before and run a
>> Debian-based distro of some kind on all the desktops, laptops, and
>> servers that I use or manage.  I would be willing to help out wherever
>> there is a need and I'm able.  Just let me know.
>>
>> 
> Thanks for your interest.  Finding a bug (for example starting from
> http://bugs.debian.org/debian-x@lists.debian.org, or something that
> affects you) in an area you're interested in, and tracking it down or
> requesting more information from the submitter if needed, or forwarding
> the bug upstream, would probably be a good starting point.
>   

And if you want to learn a bit before jumping in, you should obviously
subscribe to debian-x@ and read what's happening (but things are calm
these days thanks to bug reporters being in vacation).

If you want to follow upstream's work, you can look at:
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] for general discussion
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] for most commits
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] for upstream bugs
There are also some specific lists such as mesa*, xorg-driver-ati,
intel-gfx, ...

Also, it might be interesting to know what hardware you own. We mostly
have some intel and ati boards on x86 architectures. It's always nice to
have somebody who can test some non-trivial driver or architecture
instead of blindly uploading :)

Brice


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Re: For Those Who Care About X (Bits from the X Strike Force)

[Julien Cristau]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 19:34:07 -0400, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:

> I've never worked with a Debian project before, but I've got a knowledge
> of C and have been inside some small parts of X code before and run a
> Debian-based distro of some kind on all the desktops, laptops, and
> servers that I use or manage.  I would be willing to help out wherever
> there is a need and I'm able.  Just let me know.
> 
Thanks for your interest.  Finding a bug (for example starting from
http://bugs.debian.org/debian-x@lists.debian.org, or something that
affects you) in an area you're interested in, and tracking it down or
requesting more information from the submitter if needed, or forwarding
the bug upstream, would probably be a good starting point.

Cheers,
Julien


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Re: For Those Who Care About X (Bits from the X Strike Force)

[Stephen Paul Weber]

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On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 05:58:42PM -0400, Denver Gingerich wrote:
> If you're interested in getting involved, here's a good opportunity.
> The Debian project is looking for people to get involved with
> maintaining parts of X.  "You don't need to know much about X to help"
> according to the announcement so it would be a good fit for anyone
> with a cursory knowledge of C.
>
> [...snip...]
>
> Help needed
> ---
> Some of the packages or areas have dedicated maintainers, and are
> maintained better than the rest.  But we need more people to handle the
> rest of the packages: we have hardly enough manpower to do basic bug
> triaging and keep up with upstream, but most bugs don't get forwarded
> upstream or otherwise addressed.
>
> We would love to hear from people interested in improving this state.
> You don't need to know much about X to help, just be willing to learn a
> bit and sometimes dig in unholy C code. :)

I've never worked with a Debian project before, but I've got a knowledge
of C and have been inside some small parts of X code before and run a
Debian-based distro of some kind on all the desktops, laptops, and
servers that I use or manage.  I would be willing to help out wherever
there is a need and I'm able.  Just let me know.

> You don't need to be a DD, anyone who's interested is welcome.  You can reach
> us on #debian-x on irc.debian.org, or on [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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