Debian related information

Debian QA work

See portofolio and BTS. About 1300 items reported to BTS by 2009-12.

Debian package maintenance

See Developer information. I have LowThresholdNmu and participate in collab-maint, so use Debian git repository for submitting patches to packages:

    debcheckout PACKAGE
    cd PACKAGE
    git checkout -b my-fixes master

    #  edit & commit cycle
    $EDITOR ...
    git status
    git add <changed files>
    git ci -m "MESSAGE"

    #  When ready, make a patch (set)
    git  format-patch --signoff -M

    #  Submit all git 000-* patches
    #  to Debian BTS http://bugs.debian.org/PACKAGE
    #  or send to PACKAGE@packages.debian.org

You a re a developer Debian, or otherwise and deal with bug reports, you may find Colin Watson's blog "about how to treat bugs reports" interesting.

Helping packages

The following list is only an excerpt.

Debian project

External Projects

IRC/Bug reporter nick: jaalto

Contributed patches and fixes to numerous Open Source projects during past years, those of Emacs, XEmacs, Perl Language itself, Git, Bzr, Quilt, Parted, Splint, GNU gdb, GNU binutils, GNU groff, GNU Bash etc. Check Google and Gmane lists for "Jari Aalto".

Personal

Open Source Author, Developer, Package porter/maintainer, Project Manager since 1994 at Sourceforge, Savannah, Ubuntu Launchpad, Cygwin. See http://bazaar-vcs.org/JariAalto for more information.

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