Hi,
The following will probably help you get started:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU
http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/packagingguide/C/
It's also a good idea to be present in the IRC channels of the teams you
want to work with (#ubuntu-motu for MOTU, #ubuntu-bugs for Bug Squad,
#ubuntu-devel for general development; all on irc.freenode.net), where
you can ask for help and mentoring on things you want to get involved
in.
Regards
m.
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 03:43 -0400, Tim Hull wrote:
For the past several years, I have dabbled in Linux/GNU/open
source/free software, starting in 1999 when I managed my first Linux
install, which was Debian 2.0 (now THAT was dependency hell - no apt
back then). Since then, I have always been partial to the Debian
way of doing things, as compared to the world of RPMs or building
everything from source. However, I have been frustrated by Debian's
somewhat-slow pace of development, occasional hostility towards new
users (both in the system sense and community sense), and the free
software or no software mentality some have in the world-of-Debian.
I do, however, greatly appreciate and respect the contributions the
Debian Project has made - it's truly quite amazing for an
all-volunteer project.
Now, Ubuntu has taken the Debian base and added many things to it that
I like - regular releases, support for hardware that doesn't have 100%
Free drivers, ease of use, and a general friendliness towards new
users in general. As such, I have been following Ubuntu since it
first came out. However, though Ubuntu has done a great job overall,
I still see many issues that need desperate attention - laptop
support, iPod support, and ease of application installs/upgrades
outside of distribution releases, to name a few. As a result, I have
ended up flip-flopping between Ubuntu and Mac OS X - which I actually
started using after I got sick of Windows and couldn't get ACPI going
well in the very early days of Ubuntu. On OS X, however, I sorely
miss the sense of community and the world of open source/free software
from Ubuntu.
Anyway, I am very interested in helping out with Ubuntu in any way I
can. While I can't code C very well, I have extensive experience
beta-testing software for a couple proprietary OS vendors. I also
have a large amount of general experience, and have managed to do
things as weird as putting the home partition on an HFS+ volume (to
keep files in sync with OS X). Also, I have begun filing bugs in
Launchpad for Ubuntu. However, I feel like I can do much more - as in
many of these cases, I have pinpointed the source of the problem and
feel that something could be done about it. Additionally, in using
Ubuntu I have come up with many of my own ideas for improvements.
Filing a bug in Launchpad, however, doesn't seem to result in much in
any of these areas.
How can I get involved? I've seen some things about the Bug Squad,
the Laptop Testing Team, and Masters of the Universe, and I'm not
exactly sure how it all works. In particular, I'm interested in
helping report and fix bugs (though not in the raw, in-depth coding
sense), possibly packaging some software (I noticed xcalib - a useful
CLI tool for adjusting your color profile/gamma in X using a profile -
isn't packaged), and helping identify issues with Ubuntu and possible
solutions to them (such as the afore-mentioned iPod support).
One issue of mine is that I am somewhat limited in my testing hardware
- currently I have one system - a MacBook - and have waffled between
running Ubuntu natively and on VMware in Mac OS (mostly due to power
management issues). At the moment, I don't run Ubuntu full-time, but I
hope things mature to the point where I feel I can do so without
giving up anything. Furthermore, I want to help towards that goal.
Comments, suggestions, etc welcome... I'm curious from hearing from
Ubuntu developers on this..
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