Best Practices for Contributors Getting Started with Linux Distro Development

Thursday, 06 May 2010 00:00

Written by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier

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Best Practices for Contributors: Getting Started with Linux Distro Development ., Want to contribute to your favorite Linux distro, but not sure where to start? Don't worry. It's easier than it looks, and you'll find plenty of help. Not a developer? That's not a problem. There's enormous demand for Linux distro writers, artists, translators, advocates to work events, educators to introduce Linux to their students, students and parents to push Linux in schools, etc. If your only skill is interpretive dance, you might have a problem finding a place to contribute, but other than that you can find some way to help. Developers, of course, are very welcome too! Graduating from User to Contributor

According to Canonical, Ubuntu has more than 12 million users. Fedora and openSUSE's stats show that they also have millions of users. So does Debian, etc. The problem is that out of those millions of users, only a very small group takes the time to contribute to the projects that they use. To be sustainable, these Linux distros need more contributors to participate and help with everything from advocacy to translations. There's much work to be done, and too few hands to do it.

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