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Re: Hello, we need to package solanum, a new IRCD server.

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debian@polynamaude.com wrote:
>
>On 2021-05-27 4:27 a.m., Joaquín Rufo Gutierrez wrote:
>> Hello, we need to package solanum, a new IRCD server.
>> Git repository: https://github.com/solanum-ircd/solanum
>> <https://github.com/solanum-ircd/solanum>
>
>Let me tell you a story I learned when I was a kid.
>One day a system operator on a BBS I was using offer me to give me a
>hand installing and configuring my own BBS.
>The days passed by amd I asked this guy so often "when" that in decided
>not to help me.
>
>Maybe you shall take this into consideration as everyone is volunteer here.
>
>If you NEED so much this software then I suggest you pay someone to
>package it and as all of the community will be glad to benefit for this.
>
>Because you know, there's many and many more software I'd like to get
>packaged in Debian. This is why I've created many of my own packages and
>even my own repository to hold all those package that ain't in the
>distribution but that I like to use.
>
>You can do the same for Solanum.
>
>But don't ask me to do so....
>Because I already know that you'll be harassing to know "when", as you
>don't seem to understand some basis of how community based project work.
>
>Unless you can explain to me why should someone be bound to your own
>agenda ? Because you seem to use the "we" but reading the many
>repetitive message you sent, seems more like a big huge "I".

Please take a step back and re-read what you wrote here. You've read a
*lot* into a short message that I'm guessing may be from a non-native
English speaker. Maybe try and a be a little more welcoming, please?
Simply asking the original poster for a little more explanation of
their meaning wouldn't be hard...

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
"We're the technical experts.  We were hired so that management could
 ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs."  -- Mike Andrews

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Hello, we need to package solanum, a new IRCD server. Joaquín Rufo Gutierrez <joaquinito2051@gmail.com> - 2021-05-27 10:30 +0200
  Re: Hello, we need to package solanum, a new IRCD server. Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-27 13:20 +0200
  Re: Hello, we need to package solanum, a new IRCD server. Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-05-27 16:20 +0200
    Re: Hello, we need to package solanum, a new IRCD server. Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2021-05-27 19:20 +0200

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