[Soc-coordination] Packaging-related warm-up task?

[Sylvestre Ledru]

On 07/03/2014 11:40, Leandro Doctors wrote:
> Hello Debian GSoC people,
>
> I'm considering to apply as a student for GSoC 2014 within Debian.
> My main interests are packaging and system building.
>
>
> I'm interested in these projects:
> -"Bootstrappable Debian" [0]
> -"Integrate Debian Chroot with Android" [1]
> -"Package Elementary Software" [2]
>
> Even though I am a long-term Debian and Ubuntu user, I'm new to
> packaging itself.
> So, I was thinking on a "warm-up" task, as many other projects have
> (in this case, packaging).
>
> Q1) Do you think packaging is it a good "warm up" task? If not, would
> you please suggest another one?
It would be good to understand more clearly the concepts for [0] and the
answer is obvious
for [3].
>
> Regarding packaging, I have started to re-read the packaging-related
> documentation, and I intend to start a somewhat easy packaging task.
> However, when I reviewed the work-needed-and-prospective list [3], I
> was overwhelmed. The list is simply too long!
>
> Q2) Any ideas on how to narrowing the list to a "easy" packaging tasks?
>
In the devscripts package, you will find a command called wnpp-alert
which will list
the packages which needs help.
Otherwise, you can have a look to how-can-i-help results.

Cheers,
Sylvestre