Re: [Gnewsense-dev] How to get involved

[Federico Gimenez Nieto]

Hi Karl, great to see you too :),

> > For a broad overview of stuff to help with, see [1].
>
> Also CurrentProjects, but that and [1] probably both need to be
> revised.
>
Ok, i'll take a look at it.

> >
> > * Web stuff:
> > - Work on PmWiki: we have some issues with it, e.g. [2]
> > - If you have any experience with PHP and UTF-8, see [3]
> >
>
> Contacting the 'web team' would also be good, if you take an interest
> in either of these projects, or simply feel like getting involved with
> web stuff.
>
How can i contact them?

> > * Bash:
> > - Builder [6] might still need some work; [7] looks like low hanging
> > fruit.
>
> A build system always requires work :) As Sam said, 223 would be
> reasonably simple intro.
> If you want to work on anything more in depth with builder, its probably
> worth grabbing me on IRC [1]
>
I think that for now i'll focus in web stuff, but anyway i'll try builder, looks
pretty interesting.

> >
> > These are just some suggestions. You can also:
> > - Look through our bugs to see if you can pick anything up.
> > - Look through our wiki.
>
> Feel free to do some work in it, esp when it comes to documenting
> things in the project that need more explaining.
>
> > - Monitor the users and/or dev mailing lists to see if you can fix
> > anyone's annoyances.
> > - Fix the stuff that you are annoyed by yourself.
> > - Give feedback to other people.
> > - Learn packaging and provide missing packages (e.g. from multiverse).
> > - ... and so on.
>
> And work with upstreams to try and get rid of any serious nastys you
> can (Not sure if we have any of those bugs at the moment of the top
> of my head).
> >
> > [1] http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Main/HowToHelp
> > [2] http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00247
> > [3]
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-users/2009-02/msg00029.html
>
> > [6] http://www.gnewsense.org/Builder/Builder
> > [7] http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00223
> >
>
> [1] I'm around as Kamping_Kaiser or kgoetz usually, in #gnewsense and
> #gnewsense-dev .
> kk
>

Thanks a lot, cheers
--
Federico