a different take: why not look for existing abandoned projects that need a new maintainer. every year we have thousands of new ideas that will never survive in

a different take: why not look for existing abandoned projects that need a new maintainer. every year we have thousands of new ideas that will never survive in the long run so why not help out on something that already has a user-base but doesn't see updates? maintaining an existing system, and making it better might not give you the same glory as inventing something new, but imvho it should. e.g.: slide #46 and #47: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/packaging-tutorial/packaging-tutorial.en.pdf https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/packaging-tutorial/packag... https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ https://wiki.debian.org/Teams https://wiki.debian.org/Teams