Hi, I've been thinking about ways to make contributing to Debian easier. I sometimes run into the situation where someone asks me "I'd like to contribute to Debian, what could I do?", and I have problems directing him to things where he could actually help.
So I worked on two things: == "Help Debian!" web page == I think that we need a page that gives an overview of how a newcomer could help. And a sexy one. Christian Perrier's slides from FOSS.in[0] are a very good basis, but we need to work on converting this into something suitable for a web page. I started writing some stuff on http://wiki.debian.org/HelpDebian/Start . Feel free to improve that, or to point me to pages I could use as a basis. The plan is to move this to a separate, stable, web page, with pics, etc. There's also a few notes on http://wiki.debian.org/HelpDebian . [0] http://www.perrier.eu.org/debian/talks/foss-in-2007/contributing.pdf == "gift" usertag == Some projects (Gnome, KDE) use a special tag to indicate bugs that are suitable for new contributors (see [1]). Debian could use something similar. I thought of using the "gift" tag for this, but don't hesitate to propose something better. We can start with a usertag, and, if it gets widely used, ask for a "normal" tag. I wrote some documentation on http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/GiftTag . Please review it, and start adding the "gift" usertag (user: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to your bugs! [1] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove = Summary = How can you help? - Review/Improve the wiki pages - Provide feedback - Add the usertag to your bugs Thank you, and merry christmas :-) -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
