Pulseaudio mantainers

Felipe Sateler fsateler at debian.org
Mon Apr 7 13:21:02 UTC 2014


On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Bálint Réczey <balint at balintreczey.hu> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> 2014-04-04 20:32 GMT+02:00 Daniel Sousa <daniel at sousa.me>:
>> Hey!
>>
>> I'm a Debian user and I have been looking for ways to contributeto Debian
>> form some time.
>> I have just seen that the pulseaudio package needs some help in
>> how-can-i-help.
>>
>> I don't know how to use Debian's tracking system nor how the Debian packages
>> work, but I want to learn in order to help. Could you point me in the right
>> direction?
> Thank you for your interest in helping pulseaudio packaging and Debian
> in general.
> There is very extensive documentation about how Debian works as a
> project socially, and as an operating system technically at
> https://www.debian.org/devel .
>
> The bug tracking system (BTS) is documented at
> https://www.debian.org/Bugs/ and it is a good idea to start learning
> about Debian here.
>
> There are many [1] open bugs against pulseaudio and dealing with them
> is very often very hard because of the lack of relevant information.

I've been pinging bugs working from oldest to newer. A lot are from
pre-1.0 era so they are most likely fixed already. I've already closed
a bunch, but you are welcome to keep pinging the rest of the bugs.

> There is one specific [2] bug about writing a data collection script
> which would help in this area. While you learn about debugging
> pulseaudio problems you may get quite good ideas to be included in the
> script and if you decide to stay with pulseaudio bugs for some time
> please add some of the ideas to the script.

This would be very helpful indeed.

-- 

Saludos,
Felipe Sateler



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