[Thanka dev day]

jiu · 2009-03-27 19:53:15

Hi everyone,

Today is thank-a-dev day! (see http://thankadev.wordpress.com/)

So although I don't follow developpement things very closely, my perception is that Jan (JGC) is doing a heck of a lot of work adapting and packaging some of the central packages that make up Arch Linux. he's also been working on the hard graphical bits that have seen massive changes recently (x.org, the intel driver). I'm also a gnome user so I profit from Jan's efforts in many ways.

Thanks a lot for all that Jan!

kgas · 2009-03-27 20:20:00

yeah!. I would like to thank all the developers and in particular the Arch Linux. Because of this open source philosophy a separate kind of community flourished and thriving.

Cerebral · 2009-03-27 20:23:31

I agree - three cheers for the devs. I know how time-consuming and difficult that work can be, so huge kudos to you guys.

brisbin33 · 2009-03-27 21:12:36

woot! fourth one to thank-a-dev... at first i wanted to single someone out but i'll go with the 'thanks everyone' approach. since joining the dev ML, i'm starting to get a feel for how much work actually goes into maintaining such a great distro and you guys seem to have developed (pun!) very efficient means for getting the jobs done.

kudos to you! keep it up.

Rasi · 2009-03-27 22:14:03

Yea, thank you dave!

X/ax · 2009-03-27 23:10:14

Thanks @ all devs... I don't really know some, but I owe a lot to them!

Zariel · 2009-03-27 23:54:02

Thanks for all the great work you guys go!

droog · 2009-03-28 00:39:42

Thanks for all your work everyone.

My latest problem was with moc, so thanks snowman for the quick fixes.

Diaz · 2009-03-28 00:45:31

i just know that arch is the best and there is a reason for it, the developers behind it.
Thank you all and i hope you can all continue to be happy with us. xD

I wish i knew you all better, but time is not enough, maybe someday...

kudos.

jiu · 2009-03-28 04:00:51

Guys, you're missing the point!

The idea is to pick one person.

Of course it's not necessarily an educated guess -- and there's probably others who deserve just as much congrats as Jan -- but you have to pick one person that you particularly want to thank.

droog · 2009-03-28 05:13:51

jiu wrote:

Guys, you're missing the point!
The idea is to pick one person.
Of course it's not necessarily an educated guess -- and there's probably others who deserve just as much congrats as Jan -- but you have to pick one person that you particularly want to thank.

hurr? Not everyone here speaks perfect english...

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mantus · 2009-03-28 17:27:56

I will rebell like others have

a late big HOORAY for the awesome-o work all the devs do. Please keep up the awesome-o job you all do

After i changed to Arch i have not looked back.

Last edited by mantus (2009-03-28 17:30:29)

haxit · 2009-03-28 18:06:01

Thanks for all your work!!

1000th Post!

Last edited by haxit (2009-03-28 18:06:40)

moljac024 · 2009-03-28 21:07:26

haxit wrote:

Thanks for all your work!!
1000th Post!

You just thanked the devs only to get that 1000th post

Oh, thanks devs!

haxit · 2009-03-29 15:29:22

moljac024 wrote:

haxit wrote:
Thanks for all your work!!
1000th Post!
You just thanked the devs only to get that 1000th post
Oh, thanks devs!

Pshh, no! I have the most respect for them.

heazky · 2009-03-29 16:38:16

Thanks to all the devs for their great work . Once you go Arch, you don't look back to other distro's...

test1000 · 2009-03-29 17:18:43

Thanks to all the people using their time to make a better archlinux!

mrunion · 2009-03-30 00:24:04

Thanx, devs!

Nezmer · 2009-03-30 17:21:26

jiu wrote:

Guys, you're missing the point!
The idea is to pick one person.

I agree .
I had a look at the packagers of the packages I use everyday .

And the winner is ........... "Unknown Packager" .
I have a lot of development versions installed (for multimedia) and a couple of packages from community didn't show the actual packager . I run my own kernel too .

Now to the serious answer :
The winner is ............... "Allan McRae" (python , openssh , evince , brasero , smplayer)

Special thanks :
Jan de Groot (hal , dbus , xorg-server)
Andreas Radke (pidgin , thunar , cups)
Ronald van Haren (awesome , stardict)
==========================================

If I had enough scripting capabilities , I would have created a script that shows the top packagers of explicitly installed packages .

Pierre · 2009-03-30 17:45:23

I like the script idea. One could setup a cron job which automatically sends a "Thank you" mail to those maintainers. :-)

CheesyBeef · 2009-03-30 18:04:01

Thank you developers! You have made my time of using Linux over the last year wonderful. I really appreciate your hard work

Specifically, I want to thank

Jeremy White (founder of codeweavers, contributor to wine)
Jan de Groot (xserver, hal, dbus)
Linus Torvalds (Linux! Thanks for continued support and development)
Dana Jansens (Openbox, obconf)

Really, I can't express how much I appreciate any and all Linux developers. Thank you very much.

Nezmer · 2009-03-30 18:43:09

Pierre wrote:

I like the script idea. One could setup a cron job which automatically sends a "Thank you" mail to those maintainers. :-)

You can add it to pkgstats' statistics too (developerstats ) . Core packages should be excluded of course .

thunderogg · 2009-03-30 18:45:32

So I'm gonna thank you, Pierre. I guess you are behind the KDE packages. If I'm right, you were the one who made it possible to try out KDE 4.2 before it even was released from KDEs own site. That was awesome!

So here is my unscripted thanks: Thank you dev!

dunc · 2009-03-30 19:07:28

Argh. Thanks to various real life things, I haven't been keeping up with Arch lately. I missed Bug Day, and I missed this too.

Anyway, my sincerest thanks to all the Arch devs. Without you guys, I'd have to use some other, rubbish, distro.

Edit: Added commas around "rubbish" in case I was misunderstood.

Last edited by dunc (2009-03-31 01:50:08)

haxit · 2009-03-30 19:17:20

I think its wrong just to pick one. They all work so hard! Its bad for their self-esteem. Your know devs are humans also.

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