Debian Jr.

Infrastructure

• Website: https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr

• Mailing list: https://lists.debian.org/debian-jr

• Alioth Project: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debianjr

• Documentation: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianJr/

• Blog: https://syn.theti.ca/category/jr/

Interacting with the team

• Email contact: <debian-jr AT lists DOT debian DOT org>

• Public IRC channel: #debian-jr on irc.debian.org (OFTC)

Usual roles

• People working on Debian Jr. are listed in the Project member list at Alioth.

Task description

The Debian Jr. team looks after the interests of child users of Debian and produces Debian Jr. Pure Blend.

Get involved

• Use the packages included in 'junior-*' metapackages and file bugs as needed.

• Get involved with upstream projects: Tux Paint, your favourite kids' game, etc. Make artwork, sounds, translations for them.

• Add or adopt a package to maintain in Debian that kids enjoy using.

• Look over the Debian Jr. tasks to see if we've listed anything else you'd like to do.

Documentation

• Packaging

  • For the basics, see the packaging-tutorial package

    • sudo aptitude install packaging-tutorial

  • Team documentation and current packaging practices.

• Overview of team packages

  • Packages overview

  • Debian maintainer dashboard for the team

  • List of all Git repositories owned by the debian-jr team