Christoph Pohl wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to start helping Debian, and I can code in C.
> I was thinking to "adopt" Jamin, but I am going to need a "helping hand",
> because I am completely new to all this.
Debian has a *huge* amount of quality documentation.
For packaging:
http://wi
Hello,
I would like to start helping Debian, and I can code in C.
I was thinking to "adopt" Jamin, but I am going to need a "helping hand",
because I am completely new to all this.
Thanks in advance.
Christoph
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On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:27:05 -0700, Carl Worth wrote:
> > Can you image to take a look at the Developers' Reference too? AFAIK
> > the only mentioning of teams there is in 5.12.
> Yes, definitely.
[..]
> I'm filing a bug against the developers-reference package for this
> now.
Cool!
> Thanks fo
and that makes a lot of sense there).
But now you've got me to take another look at the Developer's
Reference and it has this "gem":
Chapter 2. Applying to Become a Maintainer
2.1. Getting started
So, you've read all the documentation, you've gone through th
On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 18:12 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I ran "aptitude search '~i!~M' | head" to find a package to start
> > working on, and the first one that came up was acpi-support, so I
> > looked it up on PTS and got started.
>
> Thank
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So, I decided to stop talking about contributing to Debian and start
> *actually* contributing to Debian.
Thank you for this. Also:
> I ran "aptitude search '~i!~M' | head" to find a package to start
> working on, and the first one that cam
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there anything I can do here to move the fixes from sid to lenny? I
> know this is normally automated, but I seem to remember that lenny is in
> deep freeze so packages don't get auto-migrated anymore. (?)
Ch
On Sunday 26 October 2008, "Paul Wise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re:
Getting Started':
>On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> acpi-support, so I looked it up on PTS and got started. Maybe this
&
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So, I decided to stop talking about contributing to Debian and start
> *actually* contributing to Debian.
Excellent!
> acpi-support, so I looked it up on PTS and got started. Maybe this isn't
> the right way to
So, I decided to stop talking about contributing to Debian and start
*actually* contributing to Debian. I ran "aptitude search '~i!~M' | head"
to find a package to start working on, and the first one that came up was
acpi-support, so I looked it up on PTS and got started. Maybe this isn't
the
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 05:07:38PM -0500, Martin Stiaszny wrote:
>
> Hi. I am software developer by profession, but have never participated
> in open source development before. I think now is the time for me to
> finally give back a little bit.
>
> Specifically, xterm's scroll bars do not displ
Hi. I am software developer by profession, but have never participated
in open source development before. I think now is the time for me to
finally give back a little bit.
Specifically, xterm's scroll bars do not display properly on newer
installs, but I suspect the problem may be in the shared
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 03:55:38PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Furthermore, once you get an application manager assigned, tell him where
> you live and he can check our internal database for nearby developers.
> Of course it wouldn't be advisable for him to tell you the street address of
> the poss
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 03:22:04PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > Does my gpg key need to be signed (I live in the sticks, so to speak,
> > probably not too many Debian developers around here), how do I get the
> > 3.0 standards package to do all the things the older 2.6.x.x package
> > did,
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 03:55:38PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Furthermore, once you get an application manager assigned, tell him where
> you live and he can check our internal database for nearby developers.
> Of course it wouldn't be advisable for him to tell you the street address of
> the pos
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 03:22:04PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > Does my gpg key need to be signed (I live in the sticks, so to speak,
> > probably not too many Debian developers around here), how do I get the
> > 3.0 standards package to do all the things the older 2.6.x.x package
> > did
On 02-Feb-2001 William Burrow wrote:
> I have decided to rescue one of the orphaned packages slated for removal
> from Debian. I wonder if anyone can lend me a hand getting started.
> The New Maintainers' doc and Debian Developers' docs have been helpful,
> but I have more
I have decided to rescue one of the orphaned packages slated for removal
from Debian. I wonder if anyone can lend me a hand getting started.
The New Maintainers' doc and Debian Developers' docs have been helpful,
but I have more questions. e.g. Does my gpg key need to be signed (I
l
On 02-Feb-2001 William Burrow wrote:
> I have decided to rescue one of the orphaned packages slated for removal
> from Debian. I wonder if anyone can lend me a hand getting started.
> The New Maintainers' doc and Debian Developers' docs have been helpful,
> but I have more
I have decided to rescue one of the orphaned packages slated for removal
from Debian. I wonder if anyone can lend me a hand getting started.
The New Maintainers' doc and Debian Developers' docs have been helpful,
but I have more questions. e.g. Does my gpg key need to be signed (I
l
On Aug 15 2000, Bruce Korb wrote:
> I would like to get the new 5.0.7 version into woody, but before I
> do anything, I have to figure out how to PGP (G??) sign my emails,
> etc.
You mean GnuPG?
> I have wandered through the G?? docs and read through the Debian
> site, but found no plain-
On Aug 15 2000, Bruce Korb wrote:
> I would like to get the new 5.0.7 version into woody, but before I
> do anything, I have to figure out how to PGP (G??) sign my emails,
> etc.
You mean GnuPG?
> I have wandered through the G?? docs and read through the Debian
> site, but found no plain
Hi,
My package is AutoGen that was previously
maintained by J. VanZandt. Last I saw of it,
it was Debian-packaged and part of potato.
It does not seem to be in the tree anymore :-(.
I would like to get the new 5.0.7 version into
woody, but before I do anything, I have to
figure out how to PGP (
Hi,
My package is AutoGen that was previously
maintained by J. VanZandt. Last I saw of it,
it was Debian-packaged and part of potato.
It does not seem to be in the tree anymore :-(.
I would like to get the new 5.0.7 version into
woody, but before I do anything, I have to
figure out how to PGP
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Igor Grobman wrote:
> It seems that noone responded to these questions yet...
>
> Some time around Mon, 27 Apr 1998 11:29:20 EDT,
> Stephen Carpenter wrote:
> > what is the proper procedure for taking over the package?
>
> Emai
It seems that noone responded to these questions yet...
Some time around Mon, 27 Apr 1998 11:29:20 EDT,
Stephen Carpenter wrote:
> I am getting started on taking over a package that someone else didn't
> want
> I have just sent in my message to new-maintainers to offi
I am getting started on taking over a package that someone else didn't
want
I have just sent in my message to new-maintainers to offically register
to become a developer
Just would like to ask (before my technical questions below)
what is the proper procedure for taking over the package?
I
On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 09:30:19PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 04:34:02AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > You don not need to repack. Just rename the tar file to
> > -.orig.tar.gz. dpkg can handle that, even if the
> > dir name inside the tar file is not correct (as lo
On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 04:34:02AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> You don not need to repack. Just rename the tar file to
> -.orig.tar.gz. dpkg can handle that, even if the
> dir name inside the tar file is not correct (as long as it extracts in a
> single directory).
Isn't that _.orig.tar.gz?
Hello, ...
i would like to get this debian directories, could you please send them to me.
Aside from that i think that the situation with all the package maintianing
packages and scripts is a bit confusing, i am using deb-make and
dpkg-buildpackage,because that were the ones described in the ho
On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 03:21:54PM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> So finally I have located a package (xdir) that nobody is working on. I
> want to build a test package and see if I am qualified enough to become a
> official Debian developer. Here is what I do -
Hello!
I am sad to say
Hi,
I have a uuencoded tar.gz file with a number of debian
directories. These are fully working live directories: No known
bugs.
email me if you wan tthis. The README is attached below (I
shall be uploading this to the developers coner withing the week.)
manoj
> So finally I have located a package (xdir) that nobody is working on. I
> want to build a test package and see if I am qualified enough to become a
> official Debian developer. Here is what I do -
>
> 1. tar zxvf the package.
> 2. cd directory_of_package
> 3. deb-make
> 4. cd debian
> 5. rm *.
[You (Sudhakar Chandrasekharan)]
>So finally I have located a package (xdir) that nobody is working on. I
>want to build a test package and see if I am qualified enough to become a
>official Debian developer. Here is what I do -
>
>1. tar zxvf the package.
>2. cd directory_of_package
>3. deb-mak
So finally I have located a package (xdir) that nobody is working on. I
want to build a test package and see if I am qualified enough to become a
official Debian developer. Here is what I do -
1. tar zxvf the package.
2. cd directory_of_package
3. deb-make
4. cd debian
5. rm *.ex
This is
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