[Trisquel-devel] How to contribute

[Andrew Lindley]

Hi Massimo, Welcome

There's no volunteers programme or anything like that.  For my own 
part I've found there's plenty to do that really requires little more 
than than a bit of appication and being prepared to find out for 
yourself.  For example, there's value in triaging bugs in the issues 
database and turning them into smart bug reports.  A surprising 
number of bug reporters haven't bothered to search upstream or the 
web and often things can be flagged to be put into upstream status 
after just doing a basic search.

  If you hanker for a bit of actually fixing bugs then there are bugs 
which can be fixed with no more than a plain text edtior, reading 
this [1], learning git, a bit of bash, command line and some sed.  
Assuming you know the basics of testing your patches yourself, which 
if you've got COBOL experience from the workplace will be second 
nature to you.  Reading package maint-guide is helpful for the detail 
of the full manual package creation and maintenance process if you 
need to do more advanced things.

Generally my approach is derived from the advice in maint-guide that 
you need the commitment to work it out for yourself and keep trying 
until you get it right.  It is self evident that the actual Trisquel 
developers have even less time than the Debian ones to teach people 
the ropes.  Just persisting with what you can do wih your own 
resources and being prepared to do the reading is more than most do.

[1] https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/package-helpers