Hi Maria, Francesca and everyone else On 5 April 2012 20:35, Francesca Ciceri <madame...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi María, > > welcome! > > AFAIK the Mentor Program is still running: Lisley and Helen can you > confirm? > > Yes it is, I wasn't too well for a while and then things have gone a bit mad in real life so my apologies - I should have delegated. > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 08:43:04PM +0200, María wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > Hello! My name is María and I wrote this e-mail about 5 to 6 months ago > to > > mentor...@women.debian.org but got no answer so far... I am really > > interested on debian and so I send it again to this list in case the > other > > list is not being followed or doesn't exist anymore. Sorry if I am > spamming > > your mailing list. ^-^ > > Don't worry the list is here exactly for talking about how make Debian > more welcoming and help newcomers! > > There is no way writing to any Debian list looking to get involved could be called spamming, Maria. > > I am interested in working on Debian development. I am a computer > > > scientist, but my knowledge of Linux is still limited. However, I > really > > > like gnu license and the debian social contract, so I would like to get > > > deeply involved. Right now I work at UPV modifying a hypervisor called > > > Xtratum, so I have a basic knowledge of Operating System level > programming. > > > I would like to program and fix bugs. My final goal is to be able to > help > > > with kernel maintenance and enhancement, but by now I would like to > learn > > > all the basics that may help me achieve this goal. > > > > > > Please give me some advice if possible. I am Spanish and can manage > > > English. I can also understand Catalan. I wouldn't mind helping with > > > translations and documentation, but as I already said, I am mainly > > > interested in programming and bugs. > > My suggestion is to join the QA Team [1], helping them in their > effort (fixing bugs, doing maintainance for orphaned packages, etc.). > If you want to work on bugs, you can take a look at this tutorial [2] and > read a bit about bug triaging [3]. > Another idea could be to work on bugs tagged "gift" [4] on the Bug > Tracking System > (BTS): these bugs are easy to squash and in general suitable for new > contributors to > Debian. > > 1: http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/Join > 2: http://wiki.debian.org/HowtoUseBTS > 3: http://wiki.debian.org/BugTriage > 4: http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/GiftTag > > > Another interesting thing could be to help in squashing RC-stable bugs: > bugs affecting our stable release sometimes are less actively squashed, > but are as important as the RC-bugs for the other releases. Rhonda, > AFAIK, works a lot on them: and she'll be probably happy to give you some > advice. > > If you have any doubt, don't hesitate and ask here or on our IRC chan > (#debian-women at irc.debian.org)! > > Thank you so much for giving Maria this advice, Francesca. Maria : are you happy with this advice and do you want me to continue with finding you a mentor? Kind Regards Lesley
