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<h1 align=center>Jobs @ Debian</h1>

<p>This list intends to list some vacant jobs within the Debian
project or jobs that need help from others.  This list is maintained
by Martin Schulze (Joey) who is biased (Caution!), of course.  Since it was originally
intended for German speaking people, several topics are held in German.

<p>Einige von euch haben vielleicht Interesse daran, ein klein wenig im
Debian-Projekt mitzuarbeiten.  Dafür gibt es natürlich vielfältige
Möglichkeiten.  Hier sind ein paar Jobs, für die ich ein paar Aktive
brauche.

<ol>

<li> <strong>Generelle Dokumentation</strong>

    <p>Es ist erforderlich, daß eine Manpage für jedes Programm
    mitgeliefert wird, das in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin oder
    /usr/X11R6/bin installiert wird.  Viele dieser Seiten sind jedoch
    ein Link auf undocumented.7.  Hier ist einiges an Arbeit
    erforderlich.

    <p><b>Infos</b>:
           <a href="http://qa.debian.org/">QA</a>

<li> <strong>Multilinguale Paket-Datenbanken</strong>

    <p>Die Beschreibungen der Pakete können inzwischen auch übersetzt
    werden.  Bei mehr als 3900 Paketen sollte die Übersetzungslast
    natürlich auf so viele Schultern wie möglich verteilt werden.

    <p><b>Infos</b>: <a href="http://ddtp.debian.org/">DDTP</a>

<li> <strong>Editor Linux-Community</strong>

    <p>Aus München haben mich mehrfach Anfragen erreicht, ob wir, das
    Debian-Projekt, nicht Artikel und Geschichten rund um Debian in
    dem System pflegen möchten.  Ich kann das aus Zeitgründen nicht
    selbst übernehmen, bisher hat sich aber auch niemand anderes
    gefunden.

    <p>Von mehreren Zeitschriften habe ich ähnliche Anfragen erhalten,
    da würde bei Artikeln sogar Honorar gezahlt werden.

    <p><b>Infos</b>:
	<a href="http://www.linux-community.de/">Linux-Community</a>

<li> <strong>Debconf Templates</strong>

    <p>Internationalisierung von debconf-Fragen.  Mit debconf sind wir
    erstmals in der Lage, Fragen zur Konfiguration auch in beliebigen
    Sprachen zu stellen.  Hier ist noch einiges an Übersetzungsarbeit
    zu tun.

    <p><b>Infos</b>: <a href="http://auric.debian.org/~grisu/debian_translation/">Übersetzung</a>
    <p><b>Koordination</b>: Michael Bramer &lt;grisu@debian.org&gt;

<li> <strong>Debian Documentation Project (DDP)</strong>

    <p>During work on our website I noticed that a lot of DDP manuals are
    dead.  Some of them are not maintained anymore, never finished,
    never started etc.  When not dropping the whole thing it would be
    a good idea to work on these manuals since they have the power to
    help people working with our wonderful software distribution.

    <p><b>Infos</b>: <a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp">DDP</a>

<li> <strong>Debian Work Needing and Prospective Packages (WNPP)</strong>

    <p>Several packages have been orphaned by their maintainers.  They
    need a new guy who will look after them.  There's also a list of
    packages that were requested by users that also need a maintainer.

    <p><b>Infos</b>: <a href="http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/">www.debian.org</a> and
           <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/wnpp">bugs.debian.org</a>

<li> <strong>Graphical Installer</strong>

    <p>Debian still lacks a graphical installer.  The new installer,
    though, uses debconf and hence a graphical installer is much
    easier than before.  Unfortunately this sub-project came to a
    stall.  Even though, Colin Watson is working on it, a lot has to
    be done.</p>

    <p><b>Infos</b>: <a href="http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/">www.debian.org</a> and
           <a href="http://svn.debian.org/viewcvs/d-i/">svn.debian.org</a>

<li> <strong>Debian-Website</strong>

    <p>The website is maintained by a few people basically.  For such a
    large project (entire source: &gt; 128&nbsp;MB, plus documentation) this is
    not enough normally.  The website could be improved in several
    ways, some of them are written down in our todo list, some are
    not.

    <p>It would be a good idea if somebody would see how the entire
    website could be turned into a single layout instead of three or
    more different layouts.  Reviewing, updating and creating of new
    documentation would also be helpful.

    <p><b>Infos</b>: <a href="http://www.debian.org/devel/website/todo">Todo</a>

<li> <strong>Debian Weekly News</strong>

    <p>Debian Weekly News is in need of competent writers in order to
    be able to keep the quality of the issues high and to keep up with
    what is going on in the Debian community.

    <p><b>Infos</b>: <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/contributing">contributing</a>

<li> <strong>debian-testing</strong>

     <p>This refers to doing test installations of the entire Debian
     system as well as individual packages and upgrade testing, and
     filing bugs and such well in advance of release to make sure both
     are smooth.  This is a never-ending task.

<li> <strong>Debian Quality Assurance</strong>

     <p>Dealing with wnpp bugs, dealing with orphaned packages,
     keeping the quality of Debian and its packages high, developing
     patches for serious/important/critical bugs in various packages,
     investigating bug reports the maintainer can't handle.

<li> <strong>Manpages</strong>

     <p>We need more competent people who are able to work on the
     manpages package.  This requires good knowledge of Unix, Linux
     and the kernel as well as knowledge of <a
     href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/">SUSv2</a>, <a
     href="http://www.UNIX-systems.org/version3/">SUSv3</a> and
     POSIX.  Bug reports against manpages/manpages-dev need to be
     investigated first, to find out if it's a documentation bug or an
     implementation bug.

<li> <strong>Fixing Release Critical Bugs</strong>

     <p>The list of RC bugs is growing most of the time and requires
     skilled people to work on these bugs.  Not all bugs can be fixed
     by the package maintainer on its own.

<li> <strong>Documenting FTP-master</strong>

     <p>Every once in a while, people start complaining what a lousy
     job the ftp people are doing, that they don't work on new
     packages etc. pp.  That's bullshit.  There are 10-50 new packages
     processed every week, DWN has an excerpt.  In order to make the
     process a little bit more transparent, documentation for all the
     tools available could help.<p>

     <p><b>Infos</b>: <a href="http://cvs.debian.org/?cvsroot=dak">CVS</a>.

<li> <strong>Documenting the buildd Network</strong>

     <p>The Debian project depends heavily on the network of buildd
     machines and maintainers.  For many people it is a mysterium how
     it works.  There are also complaints every once in a while.  Even
     though &lt;arch&gt;@buildd.debian.net is said to work partially,
     it's not documented, as isn't the network.</p>

     <p><b>Infos</b>: <a
     href="http://people.debian.org/~wouter/wanna-build-states">\
     wanna-build states</a> and <a
     href="http://people.debian.org/~aba/buildd/cheat.html">setting
     up</a>.</p>

     <p><b>Infos</b>: CVS for buildd/wanna-build/andrea unavailable</p>
     
<li> <strong>Security Work/Audit</strong>

     <p>The Security Team of Debian deals with security problems in a
     reasonable fashion normally.  However, many security problems are
     undiscovered and some are too difficult to deal with easily.
     Hence, patches need to be developed or backported.</p>

    <p><b>Infos</b>: <a href="http://www.debian.org/security/">www.debian.org</a>.

</ol>

<p>Please only contact Joey if you are seriously pondering to work on
one job or another.  Otherwise you would only bother Joey and keep him
from probably more important stuff than explaining stuff to you when
you won't take over some work anyway.  Feel free to send him additions
and corrections though.  Also feel free to discuss this list in public
areas.  Thanks.</p>

<p>More todo or wishlists are here:</p>
<p><ul>
<li><a href="http://people.debian.org/~aba/wishlist.html">Andreas Barth</a>
<li><a href="http://www.debian.org/devel/todo/">Debian Project</a>
</ul></p>

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