[Mageia-dev] New member...

Fri Jan 28 13:29:53 CET 2011

Le vendredi 28 janvier 2011 à 09:10 +0100, David Sjölin a écrit :
+> Hello!
+Hi,
+
+> My name is David (Zarniwoop), and I signed up a while back for
+> participating in the Mageia dev-team among with other teams, but since
+> then I haven't heard anything. I've now been in contact with Maertens
+> who asked me to email on the mailinglist and let you all know who I am
+> and what I hope to participate with, so here goes:
+
+Welcome on board.
+We are still quite busy producing a bootable distribution to be released
+so indeed, we couldn't start formally all teams at the same moment.
+But you can still help, it just requires to follow more what we do,
+where we work. 
+
+Derek proposed to list junior job somewhere on the wiki, and direct
+people there, so if you have others ideas on how we can help newer
+community member, do not hesitate.
+
+> My participation:
+> I haven't participated in distribution development before so I'm
+> pretty new at this, but I want to help out wherever I can. I think I
+> can be of most use with C-programming. I prefer low-level programming
+> as opposed to GUI, but am eager to learn so if I get some pointers
+> I'll try to help out wherever needed. Since I don't have any
+> experience from distro development I'm hoping someone more experienced
+> could point me in the right direction.
+
+Distribution development is usually more a integration work.
+But we still usually have bug fixes and features to code. Now, for C
+coders, I do not have much ideas ( at least, nothing "easy", because we
+have the kernel, glibc, gcc, rpm, and so on ).
+
+So far, we are not in a state where we can devote much time to give
+detailed projects nor have a complete infrastructure ( like the forge
+that we keep talking about ), so it is quite rough, but nothing that
+prevent contribution. 
+
+But if you are new, you may indeed face some hurdle that can be long
+forgotten by more experienced contributers ( like the workflow, the way
+git/svn work, where to discuss change, etc ). So if you have question do
+not hesitate, we will try to answer ( and if the answer is not clear ask
+again, I usually assume a great autonomy from most people when it come
+to find how to use stuff, but I guess that's because i forgot the time I
+started doing free software ).
+
+	 
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+