<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Daniel Holbach wrote: <blockquote cite="mid1118402585.29634.4.camel@localhost.localdomain" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hey Leslie, Am Freitag, den 10.06.2005, 12:26 +0200 schrieb Leslie Viljoen: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I'd like to be able to contribute to Ubuntu by improving some of the packages and rebuilding them. I know how to apt-get source <package> and modify it and rebuild it with dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> you should absolutely join the MOTU crew to accomplish this. If you're on IRC, join #ubuntu-motu on irc.freenode.net - we can really need "additional hands on deck" and the people in there will help you to get accustomed to the packaging tools. </pre> </blockquote> I was in there late last night but not much was happening. I'll drop in again during the day sometime. <blockquote cite="mid1118402585.29634.4.camel@localhost.localdomain" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> General documentation on packaging is of course Debian's New Maintainer Guide and the Debian Policy - but some of us are already working on another Maintainer Guide. </pre> </blockquote> Great! I'd like to see the draft when it is done because I have some comments on the Debian version. I am busy reading it and there are bits that are unclear - I suppose because I am an absolute newbie in the process and once you have been doing it for a while you write a doc that takes some things for granted. I think it's important to have a doc that can make any competent programmer a contributor in double-quick time so that programmers that want to get involved can be productive as soon as possible. I'm sure I'll have some suggestions as soon as I get through the guide. I have contacted the maintainers for the ddclient package and submitted my ideas - from their README I am sure they will include the modem info in the next release. I suppose there is an Ubuntu person who will see the new release and include it. <blockquote cite="mid1118402585.29634.4.camel@localhost.localdomain" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> Thanks for wanting to contribute. We really appreciate it. </pre> </blockquote> I just hope I can give enough time to be useful! My daughter is 5 months old and so I am most productive at 1am. <blockquote cite="mid1118402585.29634.4.camel@localhost.localdomain" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> Have a nice day, Daniel </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>