Re: [Lxr-dev] Welcome to a new developer

[Jan-Benedict G. <jb...@lu...>]

On Mon, 2004-07-05 08:28:05 -0400, Dave Brondsema <da...@br...>
wrote in message <40E...@br...>:
> Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> >On Mon, 2004-07-05 09:51:27 +0100, Malcolm Box=20
> ><ma...@br...>
> >wrote in message <40E...@br...>:
> >
> >So "Thanks for the good work, Dave!" as in No News Are Good News.
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> Thanks!  It's nice to hear some feedback; it was a little weird making=20
> so many changes as a newcomer without hearing any response.

Well, that's the downside of free software: since you normally don't
earn money for the code, nor hear any comments (except criticism if you
broke something), you get little to no feedback most of the time.

So a hint for all hackers: try to find our which sites actually do use
your software. Place some nice version string or the like into the code
and see if you can find them with google:) However, if you work on code
that's little used (eg. LXR. I'm working for example on porting Linux to
the VAX, ...) you'll find a hard time to find any traces. In that case,
just be happy that it works for you!

MfG, JBG

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