[Pkg-octave-devel] Operation to recruit new contributors

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le mercredi 12 mars 2014 à 08:58 +0100, Thomas Weber a écrit :
> On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 10:52:47AM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> > Le mercredi 26 février 2014 à 22:59 +0100, Thomas Weber a écrit :
> > 
> > > not sure if you are aware of this:
> > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/02/msg00009.html
> > > 
> > > Do we have something that would fit this?
> > 
> > This is an interesting initiative.
> > 
> > Looking at our wiki page, the most obvious project that we can propose
> > is to package a few Octave Forge extensions (targeting the most
> > active/recent ones). It's a quite easy task given our existing
> > infrastructure, maybe too easy, I don't know. But this can be a good
> > entry point for someone who is interested in contributing to the Debian
> > and Octave communities.
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> Deadline was 10 March; we might be able to get something in if we do it
> immediately. My original thought was that packaging image-aquisition[1]
> might be reasonable. It has an extensive testsuite with a dummy driver,
> so one can package it even without specialised hardware. Of course,
> having the hardware would be good.
> As a bonus, we might want to investigate the possibilites of having
> reportbug templates[2] for this package - such a template could include
> the information asked for at [3].
> 
> Now, the main problem for me is that I don't have much time right now.
> This should be better in April, but the project might still need more
> than 15 hours.

I am ok to do (co-)mentoring if you do not have enough time. So I
suggest that you add this project to the NewContributorGame wiki page,
and we'll see what happens.

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