On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 11:34 PM, Fabian Bmn wrote: > my name is Fabian, i'm 21, and i'm from Germany. > At the moment i'm a trainee for IT (Software Development). > In my free time i would like to help the Debian project, because Debian is a > good and stable solution for my needs.
Awesome, thanks for your interest! > So i would like to ask you i you have some suggestions regarding the start > in the Debian QA team. :) I've written some ideas below, if you want more specific guidance, please join our IRC channel and we can discuss it further. ircs://irc.oftc.net/debian-qa If you have some Python and Django experience, the best option would be to help developing the distro-tracker software that powers the Debian Package Tracker website: https://tracker.debian.org/ https://bugs.debian.org/tracker.debian.org If you want to work on other parts of the QA infrastructure, we have a list of projects here: https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org If you want to help out with fixing poor quality packages, you can do sponsored QA uploads of orphaned packages or sponsored NMUs (non-maintainer uploads) of packages with RC (release-critical) bugs: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.en.html#nmu https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers https://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ https://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi You can also run how-can-i-help on your system and adopt any packages you use regularly or otherwise care about: https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help There are a number other ways to help Debian, both technical and otherwise: https://www.debian.org/intro/help If you encounter any unfamiliar jargon while helping Debian, you can find the meaning of most of it here: https://wiki.debian.org/Glossary -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
