[Mageia-discuss] [Mageia-dev] So, you want to become a mageia packager

Mon Feb 21 19:05:52 CET 2011

Op maandag 21 februari 2011 18:42:47 schreef Eatdirt:
+> On 19/02/11 21:18, Remy CLOUARD wrote:
+> > So how to get started ?
+> > -----------------------
+> > 
+> > Well, there are several things you can already do.
+> > 
+> > First, I suggest you to join #mageia-mentoring so that you can ask any
+> > question you’d like to people who are already packagers. Don’t hesitate
+> > to ask anything, there’s no stupid question. If you don’t get an
+> > immediate answer, don’t hesitate to ping us
+> 
+> Ok, then here we go, you asked for it...
+> 
+> What's this #mageia-mentoring, IRC stuff? Is there a mentoring mailing
+> list instead, like on gmane or so?
+> 
+> I am a complete incompetent in terms of packaging, but I know how to
+> download a source.tar.gz and compile it the right way.
+> Under mandriva I am using a lot of scientific libs, like fftw, lapack,
+> blas, and fvwm2 is my computing life; that I used to compile from
+> sources too.
+> So I am happy to help in any of those if my contribution can be used
+> somehow. I am quite unreliable too in terms of freetime as it may happen
+> that I am becoming very busy sometimes.
+> 
+> cheers,
+> Chris.
+
+there was some requests to get direct communications for mentoring, hence the 
+chat channel.
+
+the idea is that all frequent questions are being put on the FAQ and all 
+things unclear on the policies (which are alot of them).
+
+if you want to become a packager, and you are assigned a mentor, often your 
+mentor will ask you to send emails to him/her.
+
+mentors and people helping out with mentoring are asked to go on that chat 
+channel. i'm on it, and it's quite busy there.
+
+the thing is that packagers need to read up on policies cause it's important 
+to follow those.
+
+even if you don't have a mentor yet, you can still make .spec files, have 
+someone comment on those and possibly others will commit and submit them for 
+you (your mentors' job), until you become a packager
+
+good luck
+