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Re: congrats Balu for 50 packages in debian



On Saturday 04 July 2015 10:53 AM, Vasudev Kamath wrote:
> Just getting people to package things is not right. Unless you maintain
> a tool which you really use, you would not be able to give it 100% care
> it requires.
>
> Over time I've accumulated packages which I don't use myself, I didn't
> understand the problem back then when I was full of energy and free time
> but as you proceed in life you will understand what I mean.
>
> But anyway mail was not to discourage you or any one but sharing what I
> learnt hardway in my Debian life and atleast try to guide people in
> right way.
As long as you enjoy the stuff you maintain, you should do it. And you
would only enjoy it when you taste it. :-)

So I too try a similar approach, and try to package things that I use/enjoy.

And like you Bala, I too try to collaborate on the maintenance. Many of
my packages are under collab-maint. The good culture in Debian is that
you can contribute to packages even without being its maintainer. In
fact, you can contribute to Debian, even without being a DD. :-)

And yes, congratulations on this milestone.

-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."


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