On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> wrote: > On 03/09/2012 11:40 AM, lina wrote: >> Anybody needs a helper, please contact me. >> >> I started using debian since 2 years ago and definitely love it so much. >> And for the last two and a half years I got lots of help from the >> debian-user list. >> I always think of doing something to return, >> Honestly speaking, in the past I was more like a trouble-maker than >> maintainer. >> anyway, I learned and made some slow progress. >> Another reason is that, how to say, I am on the edge of becoming 30, >> not sure how long I can live in this hello world, >> but (positively) possible can still work for the next 30 years? and >> hopefully next 50 years? >> so in the next 30 years or at least following years I wish I can do some >> help. >> Yesterday I checked wnpp-alert. >> Several packages gotta my interest, >> but I am not so confident after careful considerations, which involved >> the number of users and possible problems may emerge in future. >> Here, suppose someone who needs an assistant with small things, I am >> really willing to start earlier. >> >> I finished my email, thanks for your time, >> >> Best regards, >> >> lina >> > Lina, > > Thanks for your interest in Debian, and your will for contributing. > > The way it works is that you'd pick-up any package of your interest, > and start fixing it, or package the latest version, then submit your > work to debian-mentors (through the mentors.debian.net website). > > There's nobody who is going to point to you what to do, it's really > up to you to decide. Using the list of orphaned packages is a very > good idea and a very good way to start, by the way. > > If you have any question on the procedure, we welcome you to > send mails to debian-ment...@lists.debian.org (but best is that > you find your way yourself by reading all the different docs that > are available on the debian.org site). > > So in a short way: if you want to help, do not worry, we will help > you to help! :) But please pick-up something to do yourself.
Thanks for the suggestions, especially "pick-up something to do yourself." I understand now. > > Cheers, Best regards, > > Thomas Goirand (zigo) > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cag9cjmnums_llach9xxz-0akb+m6dnknjuuydpscqsghtbf...@mail.gmail.com
