<warning> Compliment ahead! </warning> Op 08-06-2007 om 08:57 schreef David Härdeman: > On Thu, June 7, 2007 20:14, Joe Rodriguez wrote: > > I would like to learn how to join this team. I use the debian installer > > quite a bit at work for our automated installs and would love to help > > the team develop this quicker. Please let me know what I need to do to > > help. > > There's no formal process but you've already taken the first step - > mailing this list. > > In addition you also have the IRC channel (#debian-boot on irc.debian.org) > which in my experience has the most activity from late evening into late > nights (CET). > > There's also the wiki page - http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller which > contains lots of information (with a varying degree of completeness). > > You might find http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Contrib especially > interesting. > > Basically (this is what I did at least), you check out debian-installer > from SVN (see http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/svn), build > some images, hack on it, break it, fix it, build new images, test, create > patches, file bug reports on the relevant packages with patches attached, > discuss with people here and on IRC, etc. > > Just, think of what you would like to fix/improve/implement in > debian-installer and then dive right in. > > That's the development part of it, there are of course other things which > need to be done as well, for example bug triage > (http://wiki.debian.org/ProcessingInstallationReports) and translations > (http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/l10n-stats/). > > -- > David Härdeman
Good text! David, Thank you for taking time to (public) welcome a new develloper. Have fun with handling this compliment! Cheers Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
