On 11.10.2021 2.05, Petru Ciobanu wrote: > I'm using net-vpn/openfortivpn almost everyday and I would like to start > contributing to Gentoo. If possible, I would not mind to start looking > after it, alone or to co-maintain it with someone who knows more > about maintaining a package. Also, I would not mind some hits on where > to start, but I'm sure I can find enough information on Gentoo docs. >
Hey, thanks for your interest! I see there's a lot to do with openfortivpn. First, there's a version bump available, and a relatively simply-looking bug you could try to fix with the version bump, https://bugs.gentoo.org/766357 Then you can call for a stabilization of a newer version, net-vpn/openfortivpn StableRequest: version 1.16.0: slot(0) no change in 161 days for unstable keyword: [ ~amd64 ] and after stabilization is done, you can attempt to remove the older versions. Please see https://devmanual.gentoo.org/keywording/index.html#moving-from-arch-to-arch for stabilization guide. We prefer getting pull requests through Github, see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Github for a general guide into that. If you use IRC, you can join #gentoo-dev-help on Libera.chat network to get more guidance. You can contribute to maintainer-needed packages without having to become the maintainer. We do allow regular users to become maintainers of packages they're interested in via the proxy-maint project, https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers but we'd first like to see some successful contributions and consistency from you. As said, you can freely contribute to maintainer-needed packages without having to become the maintainer. -- juippis
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