Report for NM applicant Scott Kitterman <scott@kitterman.com>: 1. Identification & Background ------------------------------ First name: Scott Last name: Kitterman Key fingerprint: 7523 647B 95E5 0475 47EC 2BBA 1DA8 DA33 DDCD 686A Account: kitterman Forward email: debian@kitterman.com Scott's key is signed by three Debian Developers; the key ID is 0x1DA8DA33DDCD686A; ID check passed. Output from keycheck.sh: pub 1024D/DDCD686A 2006-12-19 Key fingerprint = 7523 647B 95E5 0475 47EC 2BBA 1DA8 DA33 DDCD 686A uid Donald Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> sig!3 DDCD686A 2008-05-28 Donald Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> uid Donald Scott Kitterman <scott@kitterman.com> sig! B2CFCDD8 2009-06-11 Philipp Kern sig!3 5E0577F2 2009-05-27 Martin Pitt <martin@piware.de> sig!3 DDCD686A 2006-12-19 Donald Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> sig! 0E1FAD0C 2009-05-28 Jo Shields <directhex@apebox.org> uid Donald Scott Kitterman <ubuntu@Kitterman.com> sig!3 DDCD686A 2006-12-19 Donald Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> sub 2048g/2963D4D5 2006-12-19 sig! DDCD686A 2006-12-19 Donald Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> 13 signatures not checked due to missing keys Let's test if its a version 4 or greater key Key is OpenPGP version 4 or greater. Good! Check for key expire stuff Valid "e" flag on key 0x1DA8DA33DDCD686A, no expiration Valid "s" flag on key 0x1DA8DA33DDCD686A, no expiration 2. Background ------------- Scott writes about himself: | I am a system engineering consultant by trade. I'm 47 years old and | live outside Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. I've been | interested in computers since I was in Junior High School (~13 years | old), back when that meant typing on a teletype connected to a distant | mainframe through an acoustic coupler. I used to be able to whistle | the first bits of the connect sequence for a 110 baud modem. | | My first significant exposure to free software was the Mozilla suite | starting just before 1.0 was released (mid 2002). Around the same | time I started learning about FOSS and community based development | techniques in general. I work as a consultant and could see that this | new (to me) way of developing software could have benefit to my | customers. In 2003 I got involved in a work project that required me | to do some programming (the first I'd done since I was in college ~20 | years before). After some research, I decided to use Python and have | used it since for quite a number of things. | | My first deep involvement in an open source project was with the | Sender Policy Framework (SPF) project: http://www.openspf.org/. I've | been involved with the project since 2004, including being a member of | the SPF Council (the governing body for the project). I maintain a | number of related packages in Debian as well as doing upstream | development and maintenance work. | | As I learned more about free software, I became more and more | concerned about continuing to base my business around Microsoft | Windows and proprietary software in general. I believe that free | software is the right thing to do, I also believe it works better. | Personally the former is important to me, professionally, the latter | is critical. Eventually I concluded that proprietary software (due | to security, licensing, and performance reasons) represented an | unreasonable business risk. I set up my first mail server in 2005 | (Debian Sarge). | | I am active in both Debian and Ubuntu development. In Debian my | primary focus has been in the Debian Python teams. I hope to continue | to help improve this area. I'm currently working on updating Debian's | Python policy to deal with Python 3 and to improve the robustness of | the Debian Python stack. 2a. Advocation -------------- Scott was advocated by Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> who said the following about him (back in 2007): | Scott is a Debian Python Modules Team and Python Applications | Packaging Team member. He maintains SPF (Sender Policy Framework) | related stuff in Debian. As Ubuntu MOTU he really tries to merge | Ubuntu changes back to Debian, he wrote a wiki page about our team | and tries to convince Ubuntu guys that contributing to Debian is a | really good way to develop their distro. Of course today Piotr still wants to see Scott to be a DD as soon as possible. 3. Philosophy and Procedures ---------------------------- Scott 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. Scott committed to uphold the SC and DFSG in his Debian work and accepts the DMUP. 4. Tasks and Skills ------------------- Scott currently maintains klamav, postfix-policyd-spf-perl, pydkim, pymilter, pymilter-milters, pypolicyd-spf, pyspf, pysubnettree, python-dns, python-ipaddr and stepic. He also co-maintains python-defaults and pyyaml. He was mentioned in at least 165 Debian changelog entries since 2007. Over at Ubuntu he is a MOTU since 2007, a core-dev since 2008 and after being a member of the Ubuntu Universe Release Team, he's now a member of the merged Ubuntu Release Team and a Package Adminitrator. He has strong reviewing skills and regularily sponsors package uploads there. 5. Recommendation ----------------- Scott demonstrated a strong commitment to the Debian Project, patiently waiting for quite some time, and thus I heartly recommend to accept him as a Debian Developer. Kind regards, Philipp Kern
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