On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 03:44:08PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am trying to find out exactly when I joined Debian. > [...] > > 1) The date of my first upload > > Oldest signature block claiming you to be a DD seen from early 1998. > > http://web.archive.org/web/19970414141008/www.debian.org/people.html > lists some early packages. The oldest timestamp in those is: > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/m/modemu/current/changelog > -- John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 2 Jan 1996 00:02:50 -0600
Good thinking. Yes, modemu was indeed one of my early packages and it makes sense that it may have been the first. It would be nice if we maintained a list somewhere of the dates people joined -- and left -- Debian. > That matches the various biogs and SPI platforms which claim 1996. That's good. It's been the best guess I could come up with. > > 2) The date my account was created on master > > Oldest timestamp in your master $HOME looks to be 15 Jan 1997, which > is long before the first use of [EMAIL PROTECTED] that I've found. Yes, I have rarely used that email address. I have an email archived from Bruce giving my login info for debian.novare.net -- then the "hot-site backup for master.debian.org" -- dated May 24, 1997. But that's about it. > > 3) The date my key was added to the keyring > > Predates keyring changelog start in January 1998. I'm stuck. Gotcha. Signatures on keys weren't required back then, so I can't even go look at dates of signatures. > > [...] All of this predates most of the modern infrastructure: NM, > > *.qa.debian.org, etc. To make matters worse, the search tool for > > lists.d.o is returning internal server error right now, so I can't > > search some lists for my name over a specific time period. > > I'm not sure it would help. I've tried to find out when other > veterans joined and it seems unusual for a primary source like a > welcome email to be archived anywhere. Yes, I have looked for that too. I know I got a message from Bruce when my account was created. But I don't have it anywhere. Back then, at least for me, email was a much more transient thing. You'd send a message and, barring certain mailing list archives, that would be it -- mainly because it was too expensive to archive that sort of thing. I was probably still using either a 120MB or 512MB hard disk at the time. Thanks, MJ. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
