Report for new developer applicant Nicolas Bertolissio <nico.bertol@free.fr>: Summary: Accept 1. Identification & Background ------------------------------ Check with Keyid 0x7DD9018D: ID Check passed, Key signed by existing DD barbier@debian.org. $ gpg --check-sigs 0x7DD9018D pub 1024D/7DD9018D 2002-04-01 Nicolas Bertolissio <nico.bertol@free.fr> sig!3 1E161AFB 2002-07-17 Denis Barbier <barbier@debian.org> sig!3 7DD9018D 2002-04-01 Nicolas Bertolissio <nico.bertol@free.fr> sub 1024g/B2671DEC 2002-04-01 sig! 7DD9018D 2002-04-01 Nicolas Bertolissio <nico.bertol@free.fr> Applicant writes: --8<------------------------schnipp------------------------->8--- I'm an air traffic controler (one of the guys at the top of the tower at the airport). Computer has been at home for a long time (1983/84). I started with a TI/99, this switched to an Atari ST. With this one I learned 68k assembler and a bit of C (but a give up this C). About 5 years ago, my father bought a mac, 68k, so I went on 68k assembler. Then he changed for a g4 and MacOSX so I totally give up with this as I had not enought time. I bought my own PC 3 years ago, a 2 x Celeron, when Linux started to emerge in France, with the aim of installing Linux on it as I have never worked on window$ computers and collegues had lots of trouble with it. I failed with a Slink, so I put a Mandrake. Then I switched to Potato as I had dependency troubles with the rpm system. Now I'm on Sarge (with chooted sid and woody to compile/test my package). I Totally stop coding until I discovered Perl (see below) which is now the only language I am able to do something from. As you can see, my first aim at installing Linux had nothing to do with open source and free software, it was just a way to look at what dual-processing could be. So I read the docs, and discovered what free software was and I agreed with this philosophy. When I installed my Potato, I had no time to do something in return of what I had received as I had my final exams at school. Then I discovered the l10n-french list and thought I may have time to translate for Debian. I started with reviewing already translated documents and never start translating as I was already spending a lot of time with reviewing. At that time Michael Bramer (Grisu) started to flood the list with packages description to review. And they _really_ need reviewing. The mail format was not really convenient so I made a first Perl script to automate sending review to translators. But this was not enought for me and was only available for French translation. So I've contacted Michael to ask him whether I could develop a review process for the DDTS. He agreed, so I made it, and the DDTS has now a review process available for all languages. This was for me a way to give something to Debian for all the good thinks I reveived from it. I also developped an administration part for the DDTS as the growth of translators and reviewers made necessary to be able to easily modify single things as email addresses, to orphan translations, and so on. Once the review part of the server was fine, I started rewritting my script for reviewers, I improved it and make it deal with translation and bug tracking messages so it became a console-base client for the French ddts team. I advertised a bit for it on the DDTS coordinators list and received bug reports/questions from people who were not translating into French, so I thought it could be a could idea to have it available as on official Debian package. But for the really first versions, it has always been available as a (unofficial) Debian package, so people had just to install it in the usual way and use it, preventing installation error from a .tar.gz, and introduction of unstability with a non-i.deb thing in the system of possible newbies. Making it available as an official Debian package should encourage people to help l10n project, starting with short descriptions may be easier than translating the Developers' Reference from scratch. --8<------------------------schnapp------------------------->8--- 2. Philosophy and Procedures ----------------------------- Nicolas has an adequate understanding of Debian's philosophy and procedures. He provided acceptable answers to all my questions about the Social Contract, DFSG, BTS, etc. 3. Tasks and Skills ------------------- Nicolas is the maintainer of ddtc (sponsored by grisu). He also answered my other questions regarding T&S without problems. 4. Recommendation ----------------- I recommend Nicolas as a Debian developer. Account: nico.bertol Forward-Email: nico.bertol@free.fr
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