On 18 Mar 2001 10:32:12 +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: > Brian Russo wrote: > > > > I have not met him in real life, or even known him long > > via irc, however my consistent image of him is not one > > of trust, nor maturity, but well.. > > I have met him in real life at a key signing party with 5 or 6 other > developers, he seemed to get along well with everyone, he gave me the > impression that he was very mature for his age and motivated to work > with the debian community. > > Im not in a position to judge his technical knowledge though.
OK. I sent a short reply to Glenn before (I was in a hurry, and this carried over to me hitting Reply, not Reply to All). Basically, I thanked him. I must admit I got a shock when I saw a thread with my name in it in the archives ... In case the rest of you are not aware, I have withdrawn my NM application. Basically, I am a) too busy, and there was b) no chance in hell of passing "elmo's fuckwit filter", and c) he ignored every single email I ever sent him. I don't get on well with Brian, because I jumped into #debian-devel, and got abused by him within 30sec of joining. Most of it about how much of a "fuckwit" I was, and how every DD was a "fuckwit" according to me, etc. Which gave me the shits, so I grew my /ignore list by one. He didn't like it ... tough; that's what you get when you're being as much of a moron as he was that night. *shrug* Basically, I said some stuff ... how to put it? I don't dispute what I said in those emails with Ben Collins; the basic gist was right, if you just cut through the random ranting abuse. While I still think what I said is entirely correct, I 'spose that was a lesson in the fact that a) email like that is memorable, and b) http://lists.debian.org - archives. If it was the me, now, writing those emails, then, I would be a lot more diplomatic. I still think what I said is more or less true; I just try and not say stuff like that to -devel much these days. I think I've matured since then. It's too bad that the flames with BenC is what everyone remembers; since I don't think it fairly reflects on me, now. Anyways, due to the reasons above, and the fact that this year of school is now head-down, arse-up, I'm too busy to be bothered with stacking Debian on my plate; besides, I'm not going to pass DAM (even being rejected would be preferable to being ignored) anyway - so what's the point? I am still looking for a sponsor for my packages, I have no intention of withdrawing them. I would like to contribute to Debian, but obviously I'm not going to pass DAM, so I withdrew (the only thing I've heard from Troup in my life was, after I withdrew, when I asked him on IRC why he stalled me, he said "you've withdrawn, now let me work on other people's apps" - I wouldn't think ignoring emails would've been so hard, but hey). Thankyou, d -- Daniel Stone Linux Kernel Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 G!>CS d s++:- a---- C++ ULS++++$>B P---- L+++>++++ E+(joe)>+++ W++ N->++ !o K? w++(--) O---- M- V-- PS+++ PE- Y PGP>++ t--- 5-- X- R- tv-(!) b+++ DI+++ D+ G e->++ h!(+) r+(%) y? UF++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
