On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 01:33, Ivo Marino wrote: > If anyone on this list is searching for a maintainer for a package > related to Perl or PHP I'm available as contributor to the Debian > project.
While you're waiting to find a package... There's much more to being a developer than just package maintenance. One of the major items is looking after bugs. Anybody can go to http://bugs.debian.org and look at the list of bugs for their favourite perl or php packages. The maintainer of those packages will almost certainly appreciate you adding comments to the bugs, such as saying whether it works for you in unverified cases, or perhaps providing patches or idea to help fix the problem. Also, try looking at the lists of RC bugs, old bugs, or bugs tagged help. Also, there are a number of larger projects asking for help. Please see http://www.debian.org/devel/todo Becoming an official developer can take a long time, as you will see by looking at the statistics at http://nm.debian.org. I think one of the ways to speed this up is to prove that you are interested in being part of the Debian community, rather than just maintaining your own packages. -- .''`. Mark Howard : :' : `. `' http://www.tildemh.com `- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
