Re: long term goals of debian membership

[Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.san-francisco.ca.us>]

>>>>> "MS" == Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:

    MS> I think I joined by uploading my first package (make)
    MS> -- after arranging with its previous maintainer, of
    MS> course. However, when I came up with the radical idea of
    MS> creating a package to create kernel images programmatically
    MS> (rather than creating each image semi-manually), I was told to
    MS> get my image packages ratified by Simon Shapiro, the then
    MS> kernel-image maintainer.

Heheheh. It's so good to hear these stories from some of you newer
people.

I remember when I first started as a Debian developer. We used to have
to encode our packages as pictograms on stone tablets, and send them
by ox cart through the mountains and down to the river, where they
were then transferred to woven-reed rafts and floated downstream to
the Nile delta.

I became maintainer for my first package by killing the previous owner
with a flint knife in hand-to-hand combat.

These NMs have it so easy.

~ESP

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Evan Prodromou
evan@prodromou.san-francisco.ca.us