[php-maint] Contributing

[Billy Brawner]

Thanks for the tips! Last night I read the Debian Constitution and Social
Contract, and I used to have to help my girlfriend write legal philosophy
papers and analyze international law essays. I think I will be just fine
with these :P Where can I find the source for the maintainer scripts though?

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 7:56 AM, Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org> wrote:

> Hi Billy,
>
> then I would suggest several things:
>
> 1. Start by reading this:
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/
> 2. if you don't run screaming, then you can read on maintainer scripts
> (src:dh-php, src:php-defaults) like phpenmod, phpdismod and possibly
> write some documentation on how they can be used. Improvements are
> always welcome (althought I would suggest discussing bigger changes
> first here).
> 3. if you are still not running, screaming, then continue to
> debian/rules in src:php7.0 package.
> 4. now I am sure you are running, screaming :).
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>
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> On Mon, May 23, 2016, at 14:39, Billy Brawner wrote:
> > Hi Ondřej,
> >
> > I guess I was a little confused, and didn't elaborate very well on what I
> > was looking for. I am a Debian user, so I would like to start helping
> > with
> > packaging the interpreter for Debian, to get a feel for how it works,
> > with
> > the end goal of contributing to it.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Billy
> >
> > On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 7:34 AM, Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Billy,
> > >
> > > first of all - you have reached a mailing list dedicated for packaging
> > > PHP in the Debian distribution.
> > >
> > > The summary of PHP mailing lists for the PHP interpreter itself can be
> > > found here:
> > >
> > > https://secure.php.net/mailing-lists.php
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > --
> > > Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>
> > > Knot DNS (https://www.knot-dns.cz/) – a high-performance DNS server
> > > Knot Resolver (https://www.knot-resolver.cz/) – secure, privacy-aware,
> > > fast DNS(SEC) resolver
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> > > všeho druhu
> > >
> > > On Sat, May 21, 2016, at 23:26, Billy Brawner wrote:
> > > > Hi everyone, I'd love to contribute to the development of the PHP
> > > > interpreter. I myself am a PHP developer by trade though I must admit
> > > > that
> > > > I'm not very familiar with how it works behind the scenes. I figure
> that
> > > > contributing to it is a good way to get started right? Any
> suggestions on
> > > > where to begin?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Billy
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