Re: [Savannah-hackers-private] Volunteering

[Svetlana Tkachenko]

Hi Gabriele

I also hope you and your family are safe and well.
Thank you for the follow-up.

> > I would (ideally) like to focus on:
> > 
> > · Administer the savannah servers and services.

I am not 100% sure about this, but I understood that these activities will be 
difficult to start right now because the potential mentors are busy evaluating 
new project submissions (the ones you are referring to in the next paragraph). 
To my knowledge, the best way to help with this is by helping out with these 
submissions queue, and then checking this again in about a month's time to see 
if someone is available to help you learn the GNU Savannah internals.

> > · Improve the GNU Savannah wiki.

Where would you like to improve the wiki? 

In my opinion, for example, it is not translated. Personally I see this an 
important issue. Would you be able to assist with configuration of 
internationalization for the wiki?

> > Additionally, I may be glad to evaluate and approve non-gnu projects 
> > submitted for hosting, and perhaps - eventually - be able to develop new 
> > features for the savannah environment.

I am not an expert in this, but I believe one of the best ways to get involved 
in this activity is by subscribing to savannah-register-public@gnu.org, and by 
creating an account at GNU Savannah; in this case you will receive 
notifications of new "Register New Project" submissions, and will be able to 
download the archives and comment on the submission. Where required, you could, 
for example, ask the author to
* correct mistakes in their submission (commonly the files are missing 
copyright headers)
* clarify the dependencies and their licensing
* clarify anything else that seems missing or vague about their project meeting 
the criteria for being hosted at GNU Savannah

The official documentation about this kind of volunteering is located here:
http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/HowToBecomeASavannahHacker/

Regards,
Svetlana