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  • Q: I'd like to participate. How do I begin?

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      Read http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg to get the source code and to join the mailing list. You'll also find suggestions of what you can do to help as well as links to the bug tracker for hundreds of ideas of what needs to be done...


         — Raphaël Hertzog (rhertzog) · 7 years ago
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        Talk about diverse kinds of contributions. Include URLs if relevant (we'll automatically linkify them).

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        Here's how to download and patch our codes…

        Read about our death-defying mailing list and momentous IRC channel at http://lobstermag.net.

  • Q: Other than writing code, how can I contribute?

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      Contribute translations

      dpkg comes with lots of manual pages that can be translated... all the scripts and executables are also internationalized.


         — Raphaël Hertzog (rhertzog) · 7 years ago
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      Improve the documentation

      There are several requests for new documentation in the bug tracker (they tend to be of severity minor or wishlist). Write the manual page (or extend an existing one) to fix those requests.


         — Raphaël Hertzog (rhertzog) · 7 years ago
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      Triage bugs

      We have lots of old bugs whose status are not very clear. Verify if they still apply. If yes, give a recipe to reproduce them, or even better, write a non-regression test that can be used to reproduce it (see the separate pkg-tests.git repository for those).


         — Raphaël Hertzog (rhertzog) · 7 years ago
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        Discuss documentation, testing, webmastering, and/or publicity.

        Include URLs if relevant (we'll automatically linkify them).

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        We need people to download version 0.4.5 and make sure the frobulator still frobulates correctly.

  • Q: What's a good bug for a newcomer to tackle?

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        Many projects have good small tasks that can teach newcomers how the project works. Now's your chance to share one of them!

        Include URLs if relevant (we'll automatically linkify them).

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        Someone could improve the photo upload dialog box so that it lets you resize the photo before sending it to the web.

  • Q: What is a bug or issue with dpkg that you've been putting off, neglecting, or just plain avoiding?

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      • Examples:

        I don't know how to get started with internationalizing my app.

        Bug 392 about printing was filed five years ago, and I don't even know if printing still works.

        I want help from a C coder writing a Maildir patch for Alpine.

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        If this issue was formally filed on the web, be sure to include the URL.

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