Interested in becoming a contributor!

[Ahmed Kamal]

On 06/10/2011 06:55 AM, Han Chang wrote:
> Hi Ubuntu Server Team,
> my name is Han and I'm a graduate from Boston University with a 
> Master's degree in Computer Science. I'm looking to help contribute to 
> Ubuntu and saw your page at 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Mentoring and would love to get a 
> mentor to show me to ropes. I'm primarily looking for software 
> development contribution methods but am happy to start small through 
> packaging and bug fixes. Looking forward to hearing from you!
>
> Cheers,

Hi Han,
Thanks for contacting the server mailing list, currently the best way to 
get involved is to jump-in and start fixing simple problems till you're 
ready to move onto more complex tasks. Check out the server paper-cuts 
bugs page at https://bugs.launchpad.net/server-papercuts for good 
starting points. If you're interested in working on any of those, you'll 
probably find the new packaging guide useful 
http://people.canonical.com/~dholbach/packaging-guide/singlehtml/ 
<http://people.canonical.com/%7Edholbach/packaging-guide/singlehtml/> as 
well as #ubuntu-motu channel. Also, I'd like to encourage you to check 
out Ensemble <https://ensemble.ubuntu.com/>, a cloud deployment and 
orchestration tool that is getting a lot of focus during the 11.10 
cycle. Writing formulas to cover your favorite open-source application 
is a great way to get started, pick up any "Formula needed" bug from 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/principia and check out the docs at 
https://ensemble.ubuntu.com/docs/. IRC channel #ubuntu-ensemble is great 
for asking questions relating to Ensemble

You can find "coding" related bugs for Ensemble at 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ensemble from which you might want to start 
with simpler ones such as
684573 - Fix inconsistencies in naming
781920 - Signal handling for the cli, ctrl-c should be able to interupt
754318 - Add register cleanup utility to cli
716401 - No README (documentation)
769036 - Ensemble hook cli api needs to do correct exit codes

Otherwise checkout http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-oneiric/ for a 
general overview of things being worked on for Oneiric server, pick a 
task you're interested in helping get-done, and start hacking. Let me 
know once you have decided what you'd like to do, and I can help you 
with the next step. Enjoy :)
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