Re: 14 years and counting!
On 1/6/24 9:53 PM, Nilesh Patra wrote:
Hi Praveen,
I stumbled across something interesting today. Your first upload to Debian[1]
unless I missed something and given that the archives are intact :)
| libdbusmenu-qt (0.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
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| * Initial release. (Closes: #579677)
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| -- Praveen Arimbrathodiyil <pravi.a@gmail.com> Tue, 04 May 2010 13:31:09 +0530
I was thinking lekhonee-gnome was my first package.
Congrats on completing uploading packages for 14 years officially!
A BIG Thank you for mentoring several of us!
I also get troubleshooting help from many of you all the time! and
taking up a huge package like gitlab means, i can't maintain it alone,
so I have to get new people all the time.
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/d-i/-/blob/master/packages/po/sublevel1/ml.po?ref_type=heads
suggests I started contributing to debian as Malayalam translator from 2006.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-malayalam/2007/05/threads.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-i18n/2006/11/msg00146.html
This patch was very crucial for Malayalam support in Debian Installer.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=404727
I even organized a Debian Developers Conference in 2006 :)
https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/debian-in-workers/2006-August/000558.html
https://wiki.fsci.in/Debian/Conf/06
We had just 2 DDs from India at that time.
[1]: tracker.d.o page is broken for some reason. The entry can be seen in
apt-get changelog libdbusmenu-qt5-dev
Best,
Nilesh
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