Hi Victor, first of all thanks for your enthusiasm. Having such energy and knowledge for your age isn't normal. When I was your age, I didn't even own a laptop or knew what Debian or even packaging is. So you are way ahead of your age in this regard.
Thomas mentioned already a lot of valuable things like focusing on your code maintenance on GitHub. Now as I'm a few years older and currently in the last year of my bachelors I have also some thoughts. 1. Learn how to write (good) clean code without artificial intelligence. If your goal is to maintain packages for Debian one day you need to understand how to read and write good code. Especially clean code. When you use any AI to code, you won't learn how to read documentation, find bugs and refactor code. AI is not a replacement for our thinking. Challenge yourself and trigger curiosity. Learning by doing. The more projects you do, the better you become. 2. Take things slowly. You are 12 years young. Enjoy your youth, go play with other children and have fun. You are young only once and Debian packaging/ programming is a thing you can learn in a few years as well. Focus on school, or whatever you currently are doing. 3. Be as curious as possible. When things don't work, ask yourself "why?". Do your research take google, read the docs, try to break your code. The more you ask yourself "why is this?" the more you understand. If you keep the curiosity, I'm sure your path will lead back to Debian again in some years. That said, I'm really impressed by you that you showed up and actually used the mailing list. Now, I won't be able to unpack the attachments because of compliance purposes and to prevent any malicious code being executed on my device, but I'm sure you did great for the beginning. That's my thought on that topic. Have a great evening. Best, -- Arian Ott [email protected]
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