hi team!

[Andrea Neroni]

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Hi,
I'm graduated in physic and actually a student for the Master of science, Debian user from some years. Recently I decided to spend some of my free time
to collaborate with Debian.
I would want to join the Debian Science Team because some packages are useful in my studies and everywhere developer recommend to join a team to start contribution.
Since I'm new to this I need a bit of help for improving my knowledge of the Debian distribution and packaging/mantaining the system.

How can I collaborate with you?

Thanks for your patience and your help.


                        Andrea

[Sylvestre Ledru-6]

Hello Andrea,

Le vendredi 25 septembre 2009 à 08:01 +0000, Andrea Neroni a écrit :

> Hi,
> I'm graduated in physic and actually a student for the Master of
> science, Debian user from some years. Recently I decided to spend some
> of my free time
> to collaborate with Debian.
> I would want to join the Debian Science Team because some packages are
> useful in my studies and everywhere developer recommend to join a team
> to start contribution.
> Since I'm new to this I need a bit of help for improving my knowledge
> of the Debian distribution and packaging/mantaining the system.
>
> How can I collaborate with you?

There are different ways of doing it.

The main one is to upload and maintain new packages in the archive.
You can also help us by fixing some bugs and participate to the
maintenance of the packages you are using.
You will find some information on the debian-science policy:
http://debian-science.alioth.debian.org/debian-science-policy.html

It is also possible to contribute to the Debian-science blends by adding
new packages:
http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/

Don't hesitate if you have any questions,
Sylvestre

> Thanks for your patience and your help.
>
>
>                         Andrea
>
>



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[Manuel Prinz-3]

Hi Andrea!

Am Freitag, den 25.09.2009, 08:01 +0000 schrieb Andrea Neroni:
> I would want to join the Debian Science Team because some packages are
> useful in my studies and everywhere developer recommend to join a team
> to start contribution.
> Since I'm new to this I need a bit of help for improving my knowledge
> of the Debian distribution and packaging/mantaining the system.

Thanks for your interest in Debian Science! There are a lot of ways to
contribute, i.e. by fixing bugs or maintaining packages. You can look at
the current bugs at the Debian Science bug page [1]. Information on how
to use the bug tracking system (BTS) can be found under [2]. If you
register an account on Alioth [3], you can request to join the Debian
Science project. This will give you access to the Subversion and Git
repositories of the group, to which you can commit your fixes. Sending
them to the BTS as patches is fine, too.

If you are interested in packaging, I recommend to subscribe to the
debian-mentors mailing list. You can ask questions there and learn by
just reading. Additionally, there are three documents that are have to
read: The Debian Policy Manual [4], the Debian Social Contract [5] and
the Debian Developers reference [6]. Also, there is a Debian Science
Policy Manual [7] (which needs updates here and there, I'm working on
it). It covers some things that should help making work for the team
easier. Then, go find a package you care about. Helping with existing
packages might be easier at first. If you feel confident, create a new
package. You will need sponsoring to get the package into the archive.
The process is mentioned in the documents I cited.

If you have further questions, don't hesitate to ask us!

Best regards
Manuel

 1. http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/
 2. http://www.debian.org/Bugs/
 3. https://alioth.debian.org/account/register.php
 4. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
 5. http://www.debian.org/social_contract
 6. http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/
 7. http://debian-science.alioth.debian.org/debian-science-policy.html



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[Adam C Powell IV]

On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:31 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:

> Hello Andrea,
>
> Le vendredi 25 septembre 2009 à 08:01 +0000, Andrea Neroni a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > I'm graduated in physic and actually a student for the Master of
> > science, Debian user from some years. Recently I decided to spend some
> > of my free time
> > to collaborate with Debian.
> > I would want to join the Debian Science Team because some packages are
> > useful in my studies and everywhere developer recommend to join a team
> > to start contribution.
> > Since I'm new to this I need a bit of help for improving my knowledge
> > of the Debian distribution and packaging/mantaining the system.
> >
> > How can I collaborate with you?
> There are different ways of doing it.
>
> The main one is to upload and maintain new packages in the archive.
> You can also help us by fixing some bugs and participate to the
> maintenance of the packages you are using.

Simpler than uploading and maintaining packages is just testing them,
and filing bugs where appropriate, or making "wishlist" suggestions.  A
lot of people just use packages, find something wrong, and gripe to
themselves without notifying the package maintainer.

And there is always a need for better documentation, so if you find
something difficult, try to think of a way to explain it so the next
person has an easier time, and send it to the package maintainer.

-Adam
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[Steffen Moeller-3]

Adam C Powell IV wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:31 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
>> Hello Andrea,
>>
>> Le vendredi 25 septembre 2009 à 08:01 +0000, Andrea Neroni a écrit :
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm graduated in physic and actually a student for the Master of
>>> science, Debian user from some years. Recently I decided to spend some
>>> of my free time
>>> to collaborate with Debian.
>>> I would want to join the Debian Science Team because some packages are
>>> useful in my studies and everywhere developer recommend to join a team
>>> to start contribution.
>>> Since I'm new to this I need a bit of help for improving my knowledge
>>> of the Debian distribution and packaging/mantaining the system.
>>>
>>> How can I collaborate with you?
>> There are different ways of doing it.
>>
>> The main one is to upload and maintain new packages in the archive.
>> You can also help us by fixing some bugs and participate to the
>> maintenance of the packages you are using.
>
> Simpler than uploading and maintaining packages is just testing them,
> and filing bugs where appropriate, or making "wishlist" suggestions.  A
> lot of people just use packages, find something wrong, and gripe to
> themselves without notifying the package maintainer.
>
> And there is always a need for better documentation, so if you find
> something difficult, try to think of a way to explain it so the next
> person has an easier time, and send it to the package maintainer.

In a parallel thread we are just looking for someone to help with the automated
backporting of scientific packages for earlier releases of Debian. This would
provide a considerable overview on packages in our distribution and probably
lead to tons of candidates for side-projects ... or provide contacts for some
scientific work.

Steffen


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[Andreas Tille-5]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 08:32:03AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> Simpler than uploading and maintaining packages is just testing them,
> and filing bugs where appropriate, or making "wishlist" suggestions.  A
> lot of people just use packages, find something wrong, and gripe to
> themselves without notifying the package maintainer.

If you have a look at the tasks pages

    http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/

you see several "yellow" buttons, which can be considered as a todo
hint:

   - Screenshots of packages
   - Translations of package descriptions
   - Debtags

Everything is quite easy to do and might be a very good start to
learn what we are dealing with in Debian Science.

Kind regards

         Andreas.

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[Andrea Neroni]

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>>> The main one is to upload and maintain new packages in the archive.

>>> You can also help us by fixing some bugs and participate to the
>>> maintenance of the packages you are using.
>>
>> Simpler than uploading and maintaining packages is just testing them,
>> and filing bugs where appropriate, or making "wishlist" suggestions.  A
>> lot of people just use packages, find something wrong, and gripe to
>> themselves without notifying the package maintainer.
>>
>> And there is always a need for better documentation, so if you find
>> something difficult, try to think of a way to explain it so the next
>> person has an easier time, and send it to the package maintainer.
>
>In a parallel thread we are just looking for someone to help with the automated
>backporting of scientific packages for earlier releases of Debian. This would
>provide a considerable overview on packages in our distribution and probably
>lead to tons of candidates for side-projects ... or provide contacts for some
>scientific work.

Thanks all for reply!

I will register myself on Alioth and stay some time on mailing list like developer and mentors for learning from much skilled people!
I read the backporting thread... not very sure on how can I help you but if you think there is a task that also a newbe can do, I'm here. (I consider myself a quite good user, but I have no experience as a maintainer... :-( )

Andrea

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Da: Steffen Moeller <steffen_moeller@...>
A: Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@...>
Cc: Andrea Neroni <hellnote01-debian@...>; debian-science@...
Inviato: Venerdì 25 settembre 2009, 14:53:04
Oggetto: Re: hi team!

Adam C Powell IV wrote:


Steffen