Chapter 35. Helping with Ubuntu Development

Where the previous chapter talked about developing to scratch your own itch, this chapter focuses on how to become a part of a larger team, specifically the group of talented men and women who develop and package software for Ubuntu as a whole. Ubuntu is made up of thousands of different components. These are written in several different programming languages. Every component is available as source code, which is gathered into source packages. Source packages also include other content, specifically metadata ...

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