DBA looking to contribute

[Josh Gray]

In my professional life I am a Database Administrator. I'd like to dedicate
some time (8hrs a week maybe) to contributing to Ubuntu. I have had some
small amount of development experience in c++ and Java mainly from College
(5 years ago), and the odd "for fun" style project where I'd pick up
ruby/python/java for a week or so, then promptly loose motivation and forget
it.

Suffice to say I am not going to be hacking device drivers or anything cool
like that, but I would like to find a way to contribute to Ubuntu that uses
my expertise in databases, and peaks my interest in programming.

If you have any advice on how I could help, or what I should be doing I'd
love to hear it.

Thank You,

Josh Gray
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[David Henningsson]

Post by Josh Gray
In my professional life I am a Database Administrator. I'd like to
dedicate some time (8hrs a week maybe) to contributing to Ubuntu. I have
had some small amount of development experience in c++ and Java mainly
from College (5 years ago), and the odd "for fun" style project where
I'd pick up ruby/python/java for a week or so, then promptly loose
motivation and forget it.
Suffice to say I am not going to be hacking device drivers or anything
cool like that, but I would like to find a way to contribute to Ubuntu
that uses my expertise in databases, and peaks my interest in programming.
If you have any advice on how I could help, or what I should be doing
I'd love to hear it.

Hi Josh, and first and foremost, a warm welcome to Ubuntu! :-)

If you want to make use of your expertise in databases, here are a few
things you could do:

1) Go to answers.launchpad.net for your particular database, and look
for questions that you could possibly answer.

2) You can also triage bugs for that database. (
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage ) Given you have some
programming expertise, you might also be able to fix some of the bugs?

3) Make or improve Ensemble recipes for setting up your database easy in
Ubuntu.( https://ensemble.ubuntu.com/ )

Hopefully some of the above will fall into your taste :-)

// David

[Josh Gray]

Thanks for the tip. I think I'll see if I can't find something to triage in
postgres

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:08 PM, David Henningsson <

Post by David Henningsson

Post by Josh Gray
In my professional life I am a Database Administrator. I'd like to
dedicate some time (8hrs a week maybe) to contributing to Ubuntu. I have
had some small amount of development experience in c++ and Java mainly
from College (5 years ago), and the odd "for fun" style project where
I'd pick up ruby/python/java for a week or so, then promptly loose
motivation and forget it.
Suffice to say I am not going to be hacking device drivers or anything
cool like that, but I would like to find a way to contribute to Ubuntu
that uses my expertise in databases, and peaks my interest in programming.
If you have any advice on how I could help, or what I should be doing
I'd love to hear it.

Hi Josh, and first and foremost, a warm welcome to Ubuntu! :-)
If you want to make use of your expertise in databases, here are a few
1) Go to answers.launchpad.net for your particular database, and look for
questions that you could possibly answer.
2) You can also triage bugs for that database. (
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/**HowToTriage<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage>) Given you have some programming expertise, you might also be able to fix
some of the bugs?
3) Make or improve Ensemble recipes for setting up your database easy in
Ubuntu.( https://ensemble.ubuntu.com/ )
Hopefully some of the above will fall into your taste :-)
// David

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[Daniel Holbach]

Hello Josh,

welcome to Ubuntu and thanks for your interest in helping out.

Post by Josh Gray
If you have any advice on how I could help, or what I should be doing
I'd love to hear it.

If you have interest in "making things work again" and fixing small
bugs, you might be interested in checking out

http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/

to get an idea of how Ubuntu development is done, how we work with
Launchpad and how the basics of packaging work.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask either here or in
#ubuntu-motu on irc.freenode.net

Thanks again for your interest, have a great day,
Daniel