On Fri, Feb 6, 2026 at 3:27 AM Faith Nyakerario <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey all, > > My name is Faith Uniter, a new Debian contributor. I recently started > learning how to report bugs using my terminal. I’m running into some > uncertainty that I’d appreciate guidance on. > > In my case, > Helping newbie developers > Helping newbie developers > > at https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/ but I’m not entirely sure how > to determine whether what I’m observing should be reported against a > specific package or treated as a more general issue. > debian-mentors is a useless list. No mentoring goes on there. The traffic seems to be bug reports. It should be called the debian-bts list or similar. (I made the mistake of trying to grow my Debian skills using debian-mentors years ago. About all that happened was, my Inbox filled with bug report spam). > Could someone please advise on: > > 1. > > How to reliably identify whether an issue should be reported against a > specific package versus a general bug? > 2. > > How a contributor can get a reported bug assigned to themselves for > follow-up and fixing? > > Any pointers to documentation, best practices, or examples would be very > helpful. > > Thank you for your time and for maintaining such a welcoming community. > Jeff
