To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: long term goals of debian membership From: Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.san-francisco.ca.us> Date: 05 Dec 2000 12:16:52 -0800 >>>>> "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 -- Evan Prodromou evan@prodromou.san-francisco.ca.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org