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Re: Working on Debathena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benjamin Kaduk)
Tue Feb 4 02:19:53 2020
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 23:19:42 -0800
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
To: Sharon Lin <sharonl@mit.edu>
CC: Debathena <debathena@mit.edu>, Alex Chernyakhovsky <achernya@mit.edu>
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Hi Sharon!
Also, just in case you haven't found it already,
https://debathena.mit.edu/trac/wiki has links to the "most-current" (i.e.,
laest stale) documentation that's written down. The "Developers" section
(and, most notably, "Contributing" subsection) will likely have some
helpful links in it.
We're happy to answer more detailed questions as well, though perhaps a
real-time medium is more appropriate for that.
-Ben
On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 03:55:10PM +0900, Alex Chernyakhovsky wrote:
> Hi Sharon!
>
> Our latest efforts were building Debathena for Debian buster. All of
> the packages built, but need testing and conversion to Python3. I'd
> say the easiest way to get started is to install Debian Buster in a
> VM, then add debathena.list as generated by
> https://debathena.mit.edu/sources.list/buster/development and try to
> install debathena-clients, debathena-login, and eventually
> debathena-login-graphical and debathena-workstation. Test out the
> functionality, and if you find bugs, report them on github on
> github.com/mit-athena/$package. Feel free to fork and propose fixes
> via pull requests!
>
> Sincerely,
> -Alex
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 2:20 PM Sharon Lin <sharonl@mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm a junior in 6-2 at MIT and I'd like to help out with Debathena. I spoke with the SIPB Vice Chair and she told me that the project needed new maintainers. I've noticed that there haven't been major updates for a few years - is there any documentation on how to get started with contributing, and what features/bugs are still in the queue?
> >
> > Best,
> > Sharon Lin
