Contributions

[Leslie Viljoen]

Daniel Holbach wrote:

>Hey Leslie,
>
>Am Freitag, den 10.06.2005, 12:26 +0200 schrieb Leslie Viljoen:
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>>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.
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>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.
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I was in there late last night but not much was happening. I'll drop in 
again
during the day sometime.

>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.
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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.

>Thanks for wanting to contribute. We really appreciate it.
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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.

>Have a nice day,
> Daniel
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