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  • Interest in helping out

    From Mae Miller@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 21 04:10:01 2023
    Hi, I'm a longtime linux user but I'm getting oriented to the debian
    community and I was wondering what projects needed new eyes?

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    Mae Miller (it/she)

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  • From Mae Miller@21:1/5 to Paul Wise on Mon Aug 21 13:20:02 2023
    Paul Wise <[email protected]> writes:

    On Mon, 2023-08-21 at 02:04 +0000, Mae Miller wrote:

    Hi, I'm a longtime linux user but I'm getting oriented to the debian
    community and I was wondering what projects needed new eyes?

    Pretty much every aspect of Debian (and FOSS) needs contributors.

    We document most of the different ways to help Debian here:

    https://www.debian.org/intro/help

    We document the different QA activities Debian has/needs here:

    https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org

    Probably the most impactful QA service is the package tracker,
    since package maintainers often consult it before uploading.

    https://tracker.debian.org/ https://qa.pages.debian.net/distro-tracker/contributing.html

    If you have any particular interests or skills you want to learn
    about or use then we can probably give more specific advice.

    --
    bye,
    pabs

    https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

    Thank you! I'll have a look at the distro tracker. Also, salsa is giving
    me an error about pending admin approval to create a salsa account, do you know how
    I'd go about getting that approval?

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 22 13:30:01 2023
    Thank you! I've added myself to a few mailing lists but are there any in particular you recommend? Just in case I missed any.

    And that does sound really interesting! Are autoupkgtests pretty
    ergonomic to write or do they take a bit of wrangling?
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  • From John Scott@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Aug 23 15:50:01 2023
    On Tue, 2023-08-22 at 11:22 +0000, [email protected] wrote:
    Thank you! I've added myself to a few mailing lists but are there any in particular you recommend? Just in case I missed any.

    Don't overwhelm yourself, I'm sure "a few" is plenty for now. Make sure you've subscribed to [email protected] though, it is very helpful for beginner questions and answers. I've also seen you around on IRC, which is a very good idea; in my
    experience IRC, especially on the #debian-mentors channel, is a very relaxed forum for discussion and is a good place to ask quick questions.

    And that does sound really interesting! Are autoupkgtests pretty ergonomic to write or do they take a bit of wrangling?

    It kind of depends. An autopkgtest is typically in the form of a shell script, but it can be written in any language you are comfortable with. Typically the tests (like the kind that I really love) that get multiple packages talking to each other will
    take a little bit of work, but will be all the more rewarding.

    Let's move this conversation to [email protected] or onto the #debian-mentors IRC (my nickname is 'pert', we've already chatted a little bit there), which would make a more appropriate venue, and work on identifying packages you are
    interested in. Hope to see you there.

    P.S. This is totally unrelated, but I happen to be a happy Posteo customer too: you should look into having Posteo publish your OpenPGP key for you (you don't have to enable inbound encryption), which will make it easier for people to find and
    authenticate it. You will have to tweak your key though, I'll send you directions privately on how to do that momentarily.

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    Homepage: [johnscott.me](https://johnscott.me)<br>
    Contact info: [as a vCard](https://johnscott.me/me/me.vcf) and [as an LDAP directory entry](ldap://johnscott.me/CN=John%20Scott,DC=johnscott,DC=me)

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