On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 06:11:30PM -0500, Jake Spieker wrote: > 2. What does becoming a debian maintainer entail?
A fair bit. Peruse the debian-mentors FAQ at http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html for a bit of an idea of some of the basics (but be warned that what's in there is really only the tip of the iceberg). > Would I need to know any programming/scripting? If you want to maintain packages, you'll almost certainly need some level of scripting ability, and (depending on the package) probably some level of programming knowledge (unless you maintain only documentation-type packages). There are plenty of things that don't require programming skills, though. > How much time is involved? As much time as you're willing to commit. As a rough guide, I spend roughly 60 hours a month on my involvement with Debian. That's more than just package maintenance, though -- it includes my involvement with mailing lists, sponsorship, working as an AM, and package maintenance. If you add the time I've committed to upstream maintenance of software that I also package (libapache-mod-auth-mysql and IRM, for the terminally curious), that hour count roughly doubles (though I get paid for my work on IRM, so it probably doesn't really count). - Matt
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