Re: Bounty system for people helping on debian-user

From: Hodgins Family (ehodgins_at_telusplanet.net)
Date: 03/22/05

  • Next message: Pavel Novák: "/dev/null: access denied" 
    To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:08:18 -0700

    Good afternoon!

    > >
    > > I don't think you'll ever feel more helpful than explaining how
    > > something works in Debian.
    >
    > I only followup to stress this. Getting just a personal "thank you"
    > email from someone I have helped makes me feel happy. And receiving an
    > email from the BTS that a patch of mine has been accepted by the
    > maintainer really gave me the creeps. This sort of helping is really
    > cool. The feeling may fade when you're used to it, but I just want to
    > encourage people to help improve Debian by participating this way.
    >
    > J.

    I think that both of these statements should be printed out and hung up
    on the wall by all those who have been helped by Debian and Linux.

    Getting all sort of moist-eyed here, guys...

    Rob 

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