So you want to help Tails by working on Debian. Welcome aboard! Please read-on.
Foreword
Our relationship with upstream statement defines our relationship with Debian.
Tasks
- Work on the Debian bugs that affect Tails.
- Work on our tickets about Debian work.
- Help maintain backports for Wheezy:
- i18nspector
- liferea
- monkeysign
- pidgin
- poedit
- redmine
- ruby-libvirt
- ruby-passenger
- ruby-rjb
- seahorse-nautilus
- Xorg stack (at least the foundations and the major drivers)
- Help maintain packages:
- libgsecuredelete
- mat
- nautilus-wipe
- OTR-related packages (pidgin-otr, libotr, and more) in the Debian OTR Team
- torsocks
- vidalia
- Help with distribution-wide improvements:
- Set up automated QA of Debian Live development branches, and/or change the workflow of this project so that one can backport improvements into the stable branches.
Want more?
You might want to subscribe to the tails-dev mailing list.
Talk to us
If you want to talk in public with other Tails developers and users:
- you can subscribe or write to the tails-dev@boum.org mailing-list; any message sent to this list is stored in a public archive, so beware of what your email content and headers reveal about yourself: location, IP address, etc.;
- you can join our #tails and #tails-dev chatrooms; note: only a few Tails core developers hang out there, so email is preferred for anything that might be of interest for the larger Tails development community;
- for translation-related matters, you can subscribe or write to the tails-l10n@boum.org mailing-list; any message sent to this list is stored in a public archive, so beware of what your email content and headers reveal about yourself: location, IP address, etc.
For matters that need to be hidden from the public eyes, email the private development mailing list: tails@boum.org; to achieve end-to-end encryption, encrypt such email with our OpenPGP key.
