1. Identification & Background ------------------------------ KeyID is 0x:EDD88CEA, and it is signed by an existing developer, Lars Wirzenius <lars@debian.org>: pub 1024D/EDD88CEA 2000-07-24 Kalle Kivimaa <kalle.kivimaa@iki.fi> Key fingerprint = BBA5 52BA 160D 5688 61D5 0AD4 7579 1CA6 EDD8 8CEA sig! E0442D74 2002-05-19 Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> Kalle has been involved in the community for a while, I will quote his history in full: > I decided to apply for a DD when I last ran into serious problems > trying to install something on my laptop running Sid (aptitude was > depending on something that was not in Sid but was in Woody). I hang > around in an IRC-channel with Lars Wirzenius and when I once again > complained about quality control he basically said "either put up or > shut up" so I decided to put up. I also would like to get JSPWiki > (http://www.jspwiki.org) into Debian as I find it a very good > Java-based WikiWiki-engine (and I'm involved in its development). > > I've been using Debian exclusively since 2001 (before that I used > Debian in 1998 and 1999 but decided to change to SuSE because I wasn't > satisfied with the quality of stable/testing/unstable for personal > desktop usage) and I find it a very good choice for server usage. I > would like to help making it even better as a server platform and a > good contender for various more desktop-oriented distributions. > > Couldn't I do all that without being a DD? More or less yes. I could > file bug reports (with patches) and try to find sponsors (Lars seems > to agree to sponsor C software) for various orphaned packages. On the > other hand, as a DD I could start to figure out with Lars how to make > testing distribution a viable choice as a desktop platform (security > issue being the biggest problem in my opinion). > > I have been more or less exclusively Linux user since 1994 (used > Windows mainly for games and some work-related issues) but I haven't > been too active in the actual free software community. Me and a couple > of others started Patchbot project last spring but it sort of fizzled > out. Currently I'm involved in developing JSPWiki and trying to create > a sort of SourceForge type of environment for creating and running > various (live-action) roleplaying games (Ropemylly, using JSPWiki as > the engine). 2. Philosophy and Procedures ----------------------------- Kalle displayed a very good grasp of Debian's philosophy and procedures. He answered pretty much all of my questions perfectly on the first try. 3. Task and Skills ----------------------------- Kalle has maintained several packages in Debian for a while now, including libgnu-regexp-java, and he was working on packages for jspwiki which looked good. His answers to my Task and Skills questions were excellent. 4. Recommendation ----------------- I recommend Kalle become a Debian developer. Account: killer Forward-Email: killer@killeri.net
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