Draft notes: * Comments that shouldn't appear in the final document are marked in the following way: ( comment -sr1) These comments usually highlight open questions. In this case I am interested in answers. (see next sentence) * Please send comments about the contents of this document via private e-mail to me. I do not want to see debian-user cluttered with many very good suggestions for this poor document. * English isn't my native language, so I am interested in suggestions regarding my style of writing. Please send these via private e-mail. * I intend to send the final document to debian-user regularly (e.g. weekly).
$Id: contributing,v 1.1 1995/10/26 22:51:42 sr1 Exp sr1 $ ------------------------ Debian GNU/Linux is developed by an open group. (Some words why Debian GNU/Linux users should contribute. -sr1) This document is intend to identify areas that need your contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ. Please sent corrections and suggestions to Sven Rudolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. 0. Contents (not yet done -sr1) 1. General Questions 1.1 What is Debian GNU/Linux The Debian GNU/Linux WWW server is at http://www.debian.org/ , the FAQ is located at http://www.debian.org/FAQ/ . 1.2 What do I need to know to become a package maintainer ? (Pointer to the documents in debian/project/standards -sr1) 1.3. Where do I announce that I want to maintain a package ? (Wasn't there an e-mail address mentioned somewhere ? -sr1) 2. Package that have no current maintainer * ghostscript, gsfonts (previously maintained by Ted Hajek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, he got an increased non-Debian workload) * elm \ * ircii \ (Carl Streeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> maintained * wenglish > these packages. Where is he ? -sr1) * unzip, zip / * perl / (J.H.M.Dassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> created a newer package, but it is declared experimental because he doesn't have the time to maintain it.) 3. Packages that the maintainer wants to give away * seyon \ (currently maintained by * mailx / Sven Rudolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ) (If you have packages that you would like to get rid of, send me an e-mail about it. -sr1) 4. Not-yet existing packages (This list was created on debian-devel a while ago. I tried to delete not-up-to-date entries, but I may have missed some. -sr1) Programming and development: * GNU Pascal. * UPS - the X-based debugger. Probably not worth building until we've switched to ELF. (There are Linux-specific patches around.) * checker (electric-fence is already available. Is checker better, worse or different ? -sr1) * vgrind (formats source code for printing) * Scheme->C * SCM - Scheme interpreter which will soon be the basis of the GNU extension language. * SLIB. * CLISP - Common Lisp interpreter * GCL - Common Lisp compiler (nee AKCL) and... * ECoLisp - a Common Lisp compiler that produces faster code but isn't as widely used as GCL * CLiCC - Common Lisp compiler that generates stand-alone apps (rather large ones, though) * GNAT (GNU Ada Translator) Mail software: * BBDB (for Emacs: Big Brother Data Base, a rolodex with hooks into VM, GNUS, and RMAIL) USENET news software: * nn. * C News (as an alternative to INN) including NOV and NNTP. * strn. System administration and tools: * sunsite:/pub/Linux/system/Status/vmstat-1.0.tar.gz. * enscript (plain text to PostScript) * mpage (something like enscript -sr1) * flexfax/hylafax (or any Fax send/receive software) * apsfilter (a printing filter) (ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de /pub/Linux/local/packages/APS). * magicfilter (another printing filter) (It is quite difficult to write a universal and easy configuration mechanism for these printing filters.) Maths packages: * Octave (the FSF's Matlab clone). * SC (the spreadsheet). * GNU calc (see the Emacs list ...). CAD: * SISCAD, a CADD package. ftp://hrz-ws26.hrz.uni-kassel.de/pub/machines/LINUX/misc/siscad * Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system, Dore'. Misc Tools: * zip/unzip * gnu-recode * quota Editors: * Lucid Emacs * MULE: MULti-lingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs (adds support for many character sets--Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, and many more) (A maintainer who uses these enhancements would be welcome.) Games: * nethack X11: * Andrew * ImageMagick (image viewer) (This package would belong into the non-free section if it provides the creation of GIF files.) * OpenWindows (at least a library package--the full OpenWindows distribution, with window manager, etc. would also be nice, but not as important) * Mosaic (This would belong into the non-free section.) 5. Beyond packages ( Some areas that need work cannot be assigned to specific packages. Therefore this section -sr1.) * internationalization / localization * documentation and translations * GNU Debian/Linux for other platforms (m68k, alpha) * ( several other things that I don't remember just now ... -sr1) -- Sven Rudolph ([EMAIL PROTECTED]); WWW : http://www.sax.de/~sr1/
