Re: [Debian account] I request your attention
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:40:42PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote:
> On 01-08-01 Eray Ozkural wrote:
> > it is almost impossible for me to conduct my contributions to debian. I
> > already maintain several packages and plan to do more work in the future
> > (which you can see on wnpp) and I demand recognition of my contributions as
>
> Hm, you demand something from volunteers for contributions that you
> also did voluntarily? Sorry, but please get real. You can't demand
> anything from a volunteer and everyone in debian is a volunteer.
No, one can't demand anything from a typical volunteer, but Eray's
expectations seem valid. As has been noted[*], there have been applicants
who have `jumped the queue'. All Debian users as well as developers ought
to be able to expect a certain level of fairness and openness. In fact,
all of you developers agreed at some point to the Debian Social Contract,
stating at points "We Won't Hide Problems" and "We Will Give Back to the
Free Software Community". These are things we _should_ be able to demand
from Debian volunteers.
All Eray wants to do is make Debian better than it is. The powers that
be have kept up quite an effectual wall to his goal, seemingly for no
reason. Why wouldn't he be upset?
Eray wrote:
> If there are people who are familiar with my contributions among those who
> are reading this message, I request their help in resolving the odd situation
> that I am facing. If you do not know about my contributions and my situation
One of my responsibilities is the maintenance of a Debian beowulf cluster.
As I am subscribed to debian-beowulf, I see Eray's name constantly. His
work has made mine much easier than it could have been. I hope he isn't
ignored.
[*] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0108/msg00011.html
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