On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 7:02 PM Antonio Terceiro wrote: > I'm planning a talk titled "I'm a programmer, how can I help Debian?" in > which I intend to present contribution opportunities for people who are > programmers, but are not necessarily interested in packaging.
There are a number of non-packaging tasks for coders listed here: https://www.debian.org/intro/help > to present several Debian infrastructure services and tools that could > receive contributions, highlighting a few where contributions could have > a larger impact in the community (IMO). Pretty much every Debian service needs help, please emphasise that in your talk. > If that's you, please reply to this message and provide some information > about your service or tool. Package names are enough for tools in the > archive, otherwise links/wiki pages/etc are appreciated. Please also > mention a contact point (IRC channel, mailing list etc). As per the previous discussion on mentoring for infrastructure projects I'm willing to attempt to help folks contribute to pretty much any area of Debian infrastructure. The debian-mentors list and channel are appropriate for this. https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/29bd183f-1d7d-4d90-7262-7095ab377...@freesources.org https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#Infrastructure_Projects Some more specific examples I would like to see: The Debian wiki needs the MoinMoin 2.0 release to happen: https://github.com/moinwiki/moin/milestones The Debian derivatives census needs both coding and non-coding contributors. https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusQA Porting the PTS patches panel changes to tracker.d.o: https://bugs.debian.org/779400 Removing hard-coding of architectures, suites, codenames etc from Debian services. https://wiki.debian.org/SuitesAndReposExtension There are a number of things that would be useful to have in check-all-the-things, some of which there are half-completed branches for, or are just ideas (for eg sandboxing or machine-readable output). https://github.com/collab-qa/check-all-the-things/ https://github.com/pabs3/check-all-the-things/ -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
