Bug#766923: low-hanging-fruit bug user tag for new comers first contributions

Laura Arjona Reina <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <0c8495ea-03ff-137e-ac56-5859b4e08c60__36642.1503866606$1527857171$gmane$org@debian.org>
Hello Ken

El 01/06/18 a las 05:31, Ken escribió:
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> 
> (4) Then I decided, working on www is even less mission critical than changing code, right?  Then I found this on "how-can-I-help --old"
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/766923 - www.debian.org: Who's using Debian page - 2014 update
> 
> It has one comment and ends thus - "We have authored a set of procedures and a template for email outreach. Comments, suggestions, and interested parties are welcome."
> 
> Silly me, I cannot find the "set of procedures for email outreach" posted on the bug.  

Not silly, it's our fault.

We have this wiki page: https://wiki.debian.org/WhoUsesDebian
and some more info here:
https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/tree/master/english/users

But we failed to include that info in the bug report (fixing it now by CC'ing
the bug address).

> And there has been no activity on this bug since 2014.

Depending on the skills, time and motivation of the contributor(s) willing to
help updating /users, the process has been more or less automated (e.g. others
use a script to produce the mails, I write them manually with a Thunderbird
template, etc.).

We've been updating the /users section in several batches since some years. I
sent my last mails about this in 2016, and couldn't find the time to put on this
task since then. I guess the other contributors also prioritised other tasks
when contributing to Debian.

If you want to help with the Who's using Debian section update, feel free to
send a mail to the bug ([email protected]), and we can try to resume the
work together.

About general info/guidance for newcomers, we have www.debian.org/intro/help as
has been pointed out already, and also https://wiki.debian.org/Welcome/

In the Debian Project News (https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/ ) we usually
have a section "Help needed" linking to the packages that need help, the
newcomer bug list, and specific help for teams that told us to publish an
announce about help needed.

Thanks!
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