Report for new developer applicant Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org>:
1. Identification & Background
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Applicant writes:
I am a french molecular biologist living in Japan. I was lucky to
be put in contact with many different computers in the 80s, so
although I welcomed Win95 when it was released, it was natural for
me to leave it for Linux later when the novelty passed but the bugs
stayed (However, kept a dual boot for games). I quickly ended up
using Debian because at this time, RedHat Package Management was
just a hell.
Having Internet and an Unix computer at home, I started to learn
things without a real strategy, in a process that could be called
"serendipitous procrastination", in parallel to my studies in
molecular biology. I finally used many of the computer things I
learnt in a research which was made "in silico" using Debian and
Free Software, which was published in a world-class journal at the
end of my Ph.D. thesis.
I am greatly indebted to all the persons who made their works
available at no charge on Internet, for I would never be able to
develop my bioinformatic skills and my experimental skills at the
same time without their generosity. Now that after using Debian for
many years I became able to create simple packages, I would like to
contribute back to the community.
Thanks to its members, I quickly found a home for my work in the
Debian-Med project. Since February, I am developing a strategy for
making Debian the best distribution for bioinformatics and systems
biology. As our human resources are too small for working on all
topics at the same time, I decided to focus on a simple task first,
multiple sequence alignments.
I created six packages and updated two, all containing multiple
alignment software. This already makes Debian the distribution
offering the best choice in this field. However, it seems that the
use of the new packages is done at the expense of some old,
non-free ones. This shows that for the moment my work is useful to
users we already had, but did not help to get new users.
The next step in short term is to add value, for instance by
packaging a recently developed meta-aligner which needs the output
of many different programs. Each of them is easy to install from
the source, but it makes really sense to use Debian to install all
of them in one single command. Once enough work will be done, I
will advertise it through a news release that can be relayed on
Usenet, blogs, and other communication media.
This work is modest, but I hope that it can attract users and
developers. The next fields I want to improve in Debian are the
sequence manipulation software packages (EMBOSS and Staden), and
then systems biology (biological networks). The complexity of each
task, and the expected reward, is increasing...
2. Account Data
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Account: plessy
Forward-Email: charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org
3. Philosophy and Procedures
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Charles has a good understanding of Debian's philosophy and procedures
and answered all my questions about the social contract,
DFSG, BTS, etc. in a good way. Charles committed to uphold the SC and DFSG
in his Debian work and accepts the DMUP.
4. Tasks and Skills
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Charles has a good understanding of the technical side of Debian.
Charles is maintainer of several scientific/biology packages. All
packages are in good shape. Charles also answered my other
questions regarding T&S without problems and provided patches for
RC bugs.
5. Recommendation
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I recommend to accept Charles as a Debian Developer.
Christoph
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