Contributing to Debian Astro
Like Debian itself, Debian Astro is a volunteer project that is
developed in the open. Our packaging code is organized in
git repositories
and contains mainly code under a
DFSG-free
license.
We appreciate contributions of any type: bug fixes, new packages,
documentation, art work and so on.
Feedback
You can give us feedback on our
debian-astro mailing list.
The list is used for both user and developer discussion.
To submit bug reports the simplest way is though the
reportbug
program. The program will collect all information and finally inject
the report into our bug system.
Bug fixes
If you are interested in contributing bug fixes, you may pick up one
from our
bugs list. You may send the fix directly back to the bug. The
submission will be reviewed and then merged into the package.
Packaging
If you feel that a package is missing in Debian Astro, you can
package it yourself. You may also contribute to an existing package.
In these cases, you should join our
debian-astro mailing list
.
To get write access to our repositories, you need to
create an account
on the "Salsa" computer that hosts our repositories. Once you got
your account, you can
request a membership in debian-astro.
We have no dedicated team policy yet and mainly adopt the general
Debian Science Policy.
There are already some packaging tutorials as well, for example for
packaging astropy affiliated packages. We also have a
New Maintainer's guide
that describes all steps to create a new package.
Once you have your package ready, we can upload it for you to Debian
until you get your own permission to do so.
Meetings
We had our first Debian Astro Sprint at the DebCamp 2015. The report
is
here. The
plan is to have the next sprint 2016 in Germany (Heidelberg or
Potsdam).
Our meetings are open, so feel free to join us!
Further links
The following links provide some nice statistics about the packaging
of the Debian Astro Pure Blend:
