Re: A bit of history

2007-06-13 Thread Nick Phillips
On 13/06/2007, at 8:35 PM, Linas Žvirblis wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: I guess that depends on what you consider "joined". You might also consider your first posting to a Debian mailing list. Or possible, your first contribution (e.g., b

Re: A bit of history

2007-06-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:35:25 +0300, Linas Žvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >> I guess that depends on what you consider "joined". You might also >> consider your first posting to a Debian mailing list. Or possible, >> your first contribution (e.g., bug submission o

Re: A bit of history

2007-06-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:01:47 +1000, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:09:19AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: >> So, I suspsect that I crafted the modemu changelog manually and had >> either a braino or a typo. > Common in those days, ISTR. It predates dch (from de

Re: A bit of history

2007-06-13 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:35:25AM +0300, Linas ??virblis wrote: > I would define it like this: > > 1. Started using - the moment one installed his/her first Debian system. > 2. Joined community - first post to the mailing list; most probably >asking for advice or providing advice to somebody

Re: A bit of history

2007-06-13 Thread Dale E. Martin
> It's amazing how little things like dch (and all of devscripts in fact) > make maintaining packages so much easier. Our newer maintainers might be > horrified to hear that we didn't have build-depends back then; the dpkg > changelog shows they were added Christmas day (!) 1999. And apt was only >

Re: A bit of history

2007-06-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:09:19AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > So, I suspsect that I crafted the modemu changelog manually and had either a > braino or a typo. Common in those days, ISTR. It predates dch (from devscripts); I think the only alternative was the changelog mode for emacs. It's am

Re: A bit of history

2007-06-13 Thread Linas Žvirblis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > I guess that depends on what you consider "joined". You might also > consider your first posting to a Debian mailing list. Or possible, your > first contribution (e.g., bug submission or patch submission). I would define

Re: A bit of history

2007-06-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 08:12:21AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am trying to find out exactly when I joined Debian. > > This is not as easy as it might seem. > > There seem to be three possible dates: > > 1) The date of my first upload > > 2) The date my account was created on

Re: A bit of history

2007-06-12 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:11:37PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > But 2 Jan 1996 was a Tuesday and > http://archive.debian.org/dists/Debian-1.3.1/main/source/net/modemu_0.0.1-1.dsc > seems to be signed with 2048 bit RSA key E9B2C0BD, created: 1997-01-01. > > That would explain why modemu at sunsite (now i

Re: A bit of history

2007-06-12 Thread MJ Ray
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 19

Re: A bit of history

2007-06-12 Thread John Goerzen
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.or

Re: A bit of history

2007-06-12 Thread MJ Ray
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 package

A bit of history

2007-06-12 Thread John Goerzen
Hi folks, I am trying to find out exactly when I joined Debian. This is not as easy as it might seem. There seem to be three possible dates: 1) The date of my first upload 2) The date my account was created on master 3) The date my key was added to the keyring I'm pretty sure that this all w