Dean, the full story is like this:
I hang around at the freaking Web, diaspora in this case,
and someone posted he could teach others how to package.
I had different things to do (probably something with C) but thought:
What the hell, let's have a quick look in IRC.
As soon i logged in i was asked "Hey ho, ya wanna package".
I said something like "oh, ah, uh, not really, just a bit of sneaking".
Then i read a few how-to's, tried a bit, and got a lot of help.
Now i got a couple of packages build, some are fubar, some work (but already done by others), some i am still working on.
Oh, during that i also wrote more than just a few sentences at
wiki.debian.org/Diaspora
That is all which happened.
It ain't a big thing.
(Sure i am a little bit proud. But, like said, i didn't do much, nor do i understand much of what is going on. I am also proud to be the guinea-pig for refracta, and a forum member of forums.debian.net - i kinda contribute, i guess. Best of all: julian67 did never give me the business, which i don't fully understand ....).
Did that make a bit of sense?
During my weekly visit at the real-realists-forums i read some stories, and what is said there is not true. They seem to be most busy when being able to speak about others (the pope himself says he knows what i wanted to do for long? Huh? From where does he know that? God spoke to him? If i dare asking. I sure did never say or want that ... ha ha ha. Very good.).
(i didn't plan this nor would i want to do it. It is a **** lot of work, and you get nothing for it, only a few bug reports and shouting users).
Well: i guess no one can stop people talking about others.
As far it is me:
To ban someone and delete all of his posts (or posts which _might_ be by him) immediatly,
but talk about him all the time,
that really is a shame and very sad behaviour.
(Not only for a forum which neither wants to ban nor to delete posts, but in general. Very bad style).
I will get over it.

Not sure why i explain it to you, cause you know me well enough (that i don't care much for official honor-medals. Do what i do, like that, and need no confirmation

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If the end result of this whole thing is that diaspora is in Debian, then it is a good thing. If not it was a bit of fun anyway.
PS: I really should stop visiting there. Either there is nothing at all, or only nonsense.
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nadir on Sun Dec 30, 2012 2:24 am, edited 2 times in total.