Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Potential new developer

[Hugh Mayfield]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, Micha?~B Mas?~Bowski wrote:

> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:36:20 +0200
> From: "[utf-8] Micha?~B Mas?~Bowski" <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Potential new developer
>
> > > We don't have many todo items specific to C right now. Taking on
> > > Epiphany [1] is a bit heavy for a beginner. :)  But learning the basics
> > > of patching a package [2] is certainly useful in order to solve many of
> > > our bugs [3].
> >
> > What skills are needed?  I'll learn whatever is most in demand.
>
> Some Debian packaging is needed, the wiki link that Sam posted should be
> a good introduction to it.  Debian development documentation has much
> more details.
>
> POSIX sh and make are often needed, build systems, packaging scripts and
> some Debian tools that we adapt use them.
>
> We use the Bazaar version control system for our source repositories,
> you might use also other VCSes to access upstream or Debian repos.
>
> Knowing the programming languages used by a project is not always
> needed.  Fixing the IceDove bug??[0] shouldn't require much more than
> patching a configuration file and rebuilding the package.
>
> [0] https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?39512

OK, I'll find out what that all means and work on becoming proficient at 
it.  Thanks for your thoughts.  :-)

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