Wayne E. Nail posted on Sun, 13 Apr 2025 12:07:18 -0400 as excerpted: > Note that I am not a coder (which should be obvious) but I have been > using Pan since before Charles Kerr descended from the heavens to rescue > it.
Familiar not-a-coder territory, but between some early first-year-level training, my ASD OSD, two decades on Gentoo, and closely following upstream and gentoo level git-stream development of a number of packages, I seem to be more comfortable with dev-speak than most non-devs. But if you're pre-Charles-Kerr you beat me by a year or two -- he was I think relatively new as lead dev by the time I got interested enough in pan to adopt it as my first closely-followed-upstream on Linux. > My primary claim to fame is that I declared Duncan to be the > Instutuional Memory of the project ;-) I've not formally thanked you yet, so thanks. (I've always been a bit superstitious/humble about accepting such things, until well after they likely applied and I finally decided it was safe to accept the reality. Pre-turn-of-the-century back during my decade on MS, it took me /years/ to dare call myself a power user, lest I trigger the fateful folly of accepting it, then quickly demonstrating my foolishness with an fdisk of the wrong drive or the like. (I was near MSMVP by the time MS pushed me to Linux with eXPrivacy.) And I dared not call myself a an experience Linux admin until /after/ the requisite run-an-untested- script-as-root, with a typoed thus empty variable in an rm -rf $emptyvar/* brown-bag. (Worse, I was forced to admit in Linux kernel dev company that a brown-bag error and recovery had delayed my kernel bug track-down and fix test that they were waiting on!) After that, catching it in-process with that sinking feeling, recovery from backup, and followup brown-bag admission in kernel-dev company, I decided I must now be safe to call myself an experienced Linux admin, even if only for my own systems.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
