[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug#814426: sympa: New upstream version available (6.2.12)

[Jérôme Lebleu]

Hi Jonas,

On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 13:45:22 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> Quoting Jérôme Lebleu (2016-06-25 11:22:11)
> [...]
>> I've just never contributed yet and I'm not a Debian developer too - 
>> but after reading https://www.debian.org/devel/join/ it seems that 
>> it's not required and even a good gateway, or I'm wrong?
> 
> Correct: You need no formal membership of Debian to contribute.
> 
> At a minimum you can propose patches by email. Slightly easier (for us 
> to handle, but slightly more cumbersome for you) is if those emails are 
> bugreports that you file.  Most convenient and fun - both for us and and 
> you - is that you a) subscribe to our mailinglist and b) join our team 
> by creating an account at Alioth and request membership to our Alioth 
> group. Basically that grants you write access to our git.
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Anyway, if you have some time to guide me or give me advices on how to 
>> contribute and help you... I'll be most grateful!!
> 
> Here are some pointers to get you started: 
> https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-sympa/ 
> https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/FAQ 
> https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/SSH#Logging_in_for_the_first_time 
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sympa-devel 
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/sympa 
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/sympa.git
> 
> (hmm, which reveals: We really could use a nice wiki intro page for our 
> team at the Debian wiki...)
> 
> NB! Don't try make sense of Alioth web interface - use it *only* to 
> become member of our team, and then avoid it as much as possible, 
> instead using the alternative debian subdomains wiki, anonscm, lists!

Thank you for all of this information, links and others! :-)

I've subscribed to the pkg-sympa-devel mailing list and created an
account at Alioth (I think I understood what you mean by "don't try make
sens of Alioth web interface"...!).
I'll wait until Emmanuel has time to push his 6.2 branch in order to see
if I can help - and how, and proposing you a first patch by email before
requesting membership to your Alioth group.

Anyway, I'm already delighted with our few exchanges and impatient to
start contributing!

Jérôme

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