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  • Hi! Looking to contribute

    From andreimititelu@tutamail.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 21 20:20:01 2025
    Hi everyone,

    I'm Andrei, a 27 year old developer from Romania with 1.5 years of experience, plus a background in QA(2 years) and technical support(1 year). In my spare time, I enjoy volunteering, swimming, reading and hanging out with my parrot, Joselu.

    I would like to help the java team, I've started reading the wikis and the FAQ. Could you please recommend a good task to get started?

    Cheers,
    Andrei Mititelu

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Julien_Plissonneau_Duqu=C@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 22 16:30:01 2025
    Hi,

    Welcome aboard Andrei!

    If you follow the "bugs in pkg-java public packages" link from https://java.debian.net/ you will find a nice stash of FTBFS bugs (those
    with the ⛺ symbol). Working on a few of them is probably a good way to
    become familiar with the packaging and build systems as well as Debian's peculiar BTS.

    Some of these FTBFS bugs were probably resolved in a way or another but
    were never updated or closed. Outdated FTBFS reports will unnecessarily
    prevent packages from being shipped in the upcoming stable release, so
    clearing them is useful.

    I would suggest you to first try to reproduce the issue reported in the
    bug with the current version in `unstable`. Pay attention to the package version and for now skip bugs reported against experimental packages,
    bugs that are already fixed in unstable, and FTBFS on specific
    architectures.

    Try to aim for bugs that are between 3 months - 3 years old as those are
    the most likely to be outdated and/or easily resolved. Also look for
    bugs that have FTBFS in the title but are not tagged "ftbfs", they need
    tagging if they are reproducible.

    Setup (for example) sbuild in unshare mode with an unstable chroot, try
    to build a good package with it to check that it works, and then use it
    to try to build packages with open FTBFS reports to check if the reports
    are still relevant.

    Then take notes and report here or on #debian-java on IRC. Most of these
    bugs will need to be reassigned to a different (dependency) package that
    is actually the root cause of the issue, try to figure out which one and
    if the build is now successful which version of the package or the
    dependency solved the issue (by checking the changelogs or other similar resolved bug reports).

    Good hunting!

    Cheers,

    --
    Julien Plissonneau Duquène

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