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Re: Frédéric-Emmanuel Picca DM application



On 22:54 Tue 18 Aug     , Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Hi Xavier,
> 
> On 18/08/09 at 14:45 +0200, Xavier Oswald wrote:
> > On 13:48 Tue 18 Aug     , Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote:
> > > This is my declaration of intent to become a Debian Maintainer
> > > <URL:http://wiki.debian.org/Maintainers>.
> > > I have read the Social Contract, Debian Free Software Guidelines and
> > > Debian Machine Usage Policy and agree with all of them.
> > > Currently, I co‐maintain the packages lisaac. My GnuPG key A59B1171
> > > is signed by the Debian Developer Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org>.
> > > I look forward to becoming a Debian Maintainer.
> > 
> > I have worked with Frédéric on the Lisaac package and spoken with him about
> > debian policy, and technical things thus I believe that Fréderic has the
> > technical skills necesarry to be a Debian Maintainer. He is working hard on
> > getting several things done for debian[1][2][3].
> 
> 1 package co-maintained (with 23 insts in popcon, last upload over a
> year ago), 1 package in NEW, 1 ITA. I'm all for making it easier for
> people to contribute to Debian, but are you sure that you are not
> setting the bar a bit too low here?

When he has done his first package, he did it very well. I have spoken a lot
with Frédéric about debian packaging issues and even learn things from him when
I was in NM. For my part, I think having a DM access to push him ahead is a good
thing and I believe that he will do a great job.

Maybe we could have Matthew Johnson opinion about the package he recently sponsored for
Frédéric.

Greetings,
-- 
  ,''`.  ** Xavier Oswald <xoswald@debian.org>                            
 : :' :  ** Research Engineer                                           
 `. `'   ** GNU/LINUX Debian Developer (http://debian.org)              
   `-    ** Isaac Project Developer (http://isaacproject.u-strasbg.fr/) 


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