Dougal Ballantyne wrote:
Hi,
I am a long time Red Hat Linux/RHEL/CentOS user and would like to try and start putting back into CentOS. Where is a good place to start?
Depends on what you want do do. Helping out on the users list is good. Examining the bugs collection is good, especially if you find something you can fix. Offering a hand when volunteers are needed is very good. Finding what happened to the s390 port and getting involved is good, it seems to have stalled a few times. Writing documentation is very good (but best done by people who have a talent for clear writing).
Using another distro is good: SUSE, Debian and others have different ways of doing things, and sometimes their ways are better. There's nothing wrong with arguing for their better ideas to be incorporated in RHEL (or Fedora which is the more likely way into RHEL).
RH has just announced RHEL 5.3. Getting involved in testing and fixing the about-to-be CentOS 5.3 is very good.