On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:48:39PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Can I ask what useful things you do for the Project, apart from serving
Yeah, but I've been largely offline for most of the past two years, so most of what I did was pretty ancient. Let's see... I documented dpkg-deb (and the file format), and helped design the semantics for dpkg. I've supported a variety of small packages over the years, though nothing the size and complexity of X. I was for most of several years the gadfly advocating that KDE be relicensed under the GPL. But, you're right, I've not done much recently, because I didn't a debian machine I trusted to do package signing (and generally I've been relying on borrowed machines until last month). > In other words, I am trying to determine the labors upon which you > legitimize your self-appointed role as a moral voice for the Project > while still being too busy to put forth the sort of concrete proposals > you criticize others for not producing. I've got package changes I'd upload right now, if I could authenticate with db.debian.org. I can't, however, because I have an old pgp key, and apparently the infrastructure still hasn't recovered from the recent security outage to tell me my new password. > Frankly, I'm stumped as to how you have time to contribute to mailing > list discussions, usually to strenously advocate *not* doing something > (like clear a GR that has been stalled for over 3 years[7], as the A lot of that is because I'm rather limited in what else I can do. -- Raul