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We are always looking for new contributors and
volunteers:
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interest in Free Software and
some free time:
If you haven't already; you should read the sites linked on the Debian start page: This will help you to get a better
understanding of who we are and what we're trying to accomplish: As
potential Debian contributor, please pay particular attention t0 these tWo pages:
Debian Eree_Software Guidelines
Debian Social Contract
A lot of our communication happens on the Debian mailing_lists
If you want to get a feeling for the inner workings of the Debian project, you should at least subscribe to debian-devel
announce and
debian-news:
Both lists are low-volume and document whats going on in the community: The Debian Project News; also published on the debian-news list, summarizes
recent discussions from Debian-related mailing lists and blogs and provides links t0 them:
prospective developer; you should also subscribe to debian-mentors: Here you can ask questions about packaging and infrastructure projects as well as other developer-related
issues_
Please note that this list is meant for new contributors
not users
Other interesting lists are debian-devel (technical development topics) , debian-project (discussions about non-
technical issues in the project) , debian -release (coordinating Debian releases), debian-qa (quality assurance).
MailingList Subscription
Tip: If you want to reduce the number of mails you receive, especially on high-traffic lists_
we offer email digests as
summary email instead of individual messages_
You can also visit
the Mailing_List Archives to read the messages of our lists in a web browser:
Contributing
Are vou interested in maintaining packages? Then please have
look at our Work-Needing and Prospective Packaqes
You don't need to be an official Debian Developer