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We are always looking for new
contributors and volunteers:
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strongly encourage participation by
everyone Requirements: interest in
If you haven't already; you should read the sites linked on the Debian startpage: This
Free Software and some free time
will help you to get =
better understanding of who we are and what we re trying
accomplish As
potential Debian contributor; please pay particular attention
these tWO pages:
Debian Free_Sofware Guidelines
Debian
Contract
Alot 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 what's
going on in the community. The Debian Project News, also published on the debian-news Iist. summarizes
ecent discussions from
Debian-related mailing lists and blogs and provides links to them:
prospective developer; you should also subscribe t0 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-deve_
(technical development topics) , debian-project (discussions about non-technical
ssues in ine
project) . debian-release (coordinating Debian releases_
debian-qa (quality assurance).
MailingList Subscription
Tip: If you want t0 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 MailingList Archives
read the messages of our lists in
web browser
Contributing
Are you interested in maintaining packages? Then please have
look at our
Work
You dontt need t0 be an official
Needing_and Prospectve Packages list. Here you"Il find packages in need of .
(new)
Debian Developer (DD) to contribute.
maintainer
Taking over an abandoned package is
great way IO get started as
Instead, an existing DD can act as
Debian maintainer: Not only dces it help our distribution, it also gives you an
sponsor and help t0 integrate your work
opportunity
learn from the previous maintainer:
Into the project
Here are some other ideas howyou can contribute t0 Debian:
us to write our documentation:
Help
maintain the Debian website: produce content; edit or translate existing text:
Join our translation team:
Improve Debian and join the Debian Quality Assurance (QA)Tean
Of course, there are plenty of other things you could do and we're always looking for people t0 offer legal support or join our Debian
Publicity_Team: Becoming
member of
Debian team
an excellent way to gain some experience, before starting the New Member
process. It's also
good starting point
you re looking for
package sponsor: So, find
team and jump right inl
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