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Debian to accept non-packagers as Debian Developers
- geekam 16y agoWhat does this mean to a person like me who is just aspiring to be a Linux developer/user and is looking for a good distro to start?
- davidw 16y agoMy advice: get Ubuntu or Debian, and help fix bugs. Report them, investigate them, discuss them with the developers. Propose improvements, with patches. Don't get bent out of shape if they reject your ideas, but try and learn from it.
- geekam 16y agoThanks. That was helpful. Who can help on how to get started with Linux programming? Is there any one for newbies and beginners?
- davidw 16y agoWell, "Linux programming" is a very broad subject. Do you want to do GUIs with Tcl/Tk, kernel modules in C? Scientific applications in Fortran?
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- geekam 16y agoI wanted to get into Kernel programming but I do not have infrastructure nor knowledge. I am really fond of FOSS and was hoping that I could devote some time to solve bugs too (other than creating FOSS myself) and get into the FOSS world.
- mpk 16y ago'Linux programming' is fairly vague, but whatever you end up doing (C#/Mono, C/kernel, erlang, LISP, etc it's all there), you definitely want to learn (bash) shell programming and either Perl or Python because that's what most distros use for automation. You can't really get a firm grip on any distro without learning that part.
- LogicHoleFlaw 16y agoThis sounds like a generally positive, inclusive sort of resolution, but what greater context does it take place in? I admittedly don't know much about what being a Debian Developer means.
- SkyMarshal 16y agoIt sounds like they're trying to formally recognize people who contribute to Debian in other ways than coding by broadening the criteria for Debian Developer status. If that's correct, I'd say it's a nice gesture.