Re: Application for Debian Maintainer
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On 25 November 2007 at 22:20, Joey Hess wrote:
| Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > More details, if needed, are also in my sponsor email for Manuel DD
| > application.
|
| AFAIK those mails are not publically available. Could you post the
| details here please?
No prob. I'll just cut and paste. The DD email request had the 'write this
knowing that it may be public one day' so I have no issue making it public.
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On 20 November 2007 at 08:20, NM Front Desk wrote:
| Auth-Key: nmauthdab7d22b03c59cff7f2754d5781bf343
| Applicant: Manuel Prinz <debian@pinguinkiste.de>
|
| Why do you advocate this person? (please provide a 5-10 line summary).
|
| You are encouraged to take questions such as the following into account
| but you're not limited to answering these:
| - How have they contributed to Debian already?
Manuel has already been instrumental for 'pkg-openmpi', the Alioth Project I
started in order to get Debian's Open MPI packages back into shape. [ Open
MPI is the sucecssor to LAM, has wide support and active upstream
development. Our packages for it were essentially buggy and orphaned. This is
now much better. ]
Manuel has also been very helpful in testing the slurm-llnl packages (for
batch / queue management on clusters) that Gennaro Oliva is maintaining (and
which I sponsor). As these use a cluster, not everybody can or will work on
this stuff.
Manuel has prepared many of the package release which I basically only needed
to rebuild -- see http://changelog.debian.net/openmpi for details.
He knows what he is doing, he is motivated, he learns quickly, and he gets
stuff done. Also, he works in the debian-science area where we do not have
that many maintainers, so goo contributions are very welcome.
| - What do they intend to do for Debian in the future?
I believe he has a number of other WNPP / ITPs. He is a graduate student in
(IIRC) Bioinformatics, so these have a science bent and some open issues,
often with licenses.
I have no doubt that he will contribute other packages.
| - How do they interact with others, such as users and other developers?
Very well. He has responded quickly and in a friendly and constructive manner
to several bug reports, I have also seen him in polite and effective
exchanges with upstream.
So in sum: Two thumbs way up. Manuel would be a great addition to Debian.
| Please note that your answer may be cited on a public mailing list unless
| you indicate otherwise.
|
| This is an automated message from the Debian New Maintainer website.
|
| Someone (possibly you) from the IP address 38.98.147.130
| nominated the Debian maintainer with the login "edd" as an advocate
| for Manuel Prinz's application.
|
| If you want to complete the advocacy process reply to this email, answer
| the questions above and GPG sign it. Please also make sure to include the
| Auth-Key (listed above) in your GPG signed reply.
|
| If you do not want to advocate this application or do not know what it
| means, just ignore this email.
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Hope this helps,
Dirk
|
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| see shy jo
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