[pkg-gnupg-maint] Newcomer to Debian Dev and Interest in joining the team

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Hi Vijeth--

On Sun 2017-01-08 16:10:36 +0530, Vijeth T Aradhya wrote:

> I have previously contributed to GNU and Coala Python, and now I'd like to
> contribute to Debian. I'm quite new to Debian and it's development policies
> and ways.
>
> *I became interested in PGP/PKI Clean Room Project proposed by Daniel
> Pocock on his blog*. I'm interested in fixing a few easy bugs, and putting
> good amount of work in actually building something.
>
> It'd be great if you guys could help me out and get started, so that even
> newcomers like me will be able to contribute and develop the software in
> the future :)

Sorry for the delay in responding to you here!

We welcome your interest, but i'm afraid i don't have many "easy" bugs
to point you to with regards to GnuPG and debian packaging.

You can see the list of outstanding bug reports (many of which are
difficult to reproduce, or may only be relevant to much older versions)
for the GnuPG packages in debian here:

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?archive=0;dist=unstable;ordering=normal;repeatmerged=0;src=gnupg2

it's a little disheartening to see so many outstanding issues, but if
you're up for reading through them, and then evaluating a few of them,
you can follow up on the bug you picked by sending mail to
NNNNNN at bugs.debian.org (where NNNNNN is the bug number) with your
findings.  If you can identify a few that we can close, or if you can
come up with a short reproducer of a given bug report (that is, a script
which, when run from a new user account, demonstrates the bug), that
would be very helpful!

     --dkg