On 07/29/2010 02:27 PM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > This is my declaration of intent to become a Debian Maintainer > <URL:http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer>. > > I have read the Social Contract, Debian Free Software Guidelines and > Debian Machine Usage Policy and agree with all of them. > > Currently, I comaintain the jetty and tomcat6 packages, and participate > in the maintenance of debian-java libraries. > > My GnuPG key 25B10423 was signed by the following Debian Developers: > Steve Langasek and Loic Minier. > > I look forward to becoming a Debian Maintainer. Thanks for your attention. > Thierry is part of the Ubuntu server team. When you yahoo for some weird problem with your production machine or for some missbehaviour in a chroot or ... just anything ... you are likely to find an answer by him in some forum that helps. Amazing. That much to his T&S. I know Thierry from a recent larger Java-based packaging efforts that depended on 10+ of his Java packages in Ubuntu. So I helped sponsoring/co-maintaining that series of his packages to adopt them for Debian and we had a couple of emails exchanged over that process and afterwards. Concerning the packages we did a few updates here or there, but they were all nice. And Thierry was very constructive and stimulating during our repackaging process all the time. It felt great to have him around. I don't recall if we had declared him to be a co-maintainer of the packages we had adopted from him with his Ubuntu hat on, a few times possibly, but in retrospect and particularly now with his DM status ante portas we should always have done so. Well, there will be future versions of those packages. Gosh, I kept begging this guy to apply for the DM status for a couple of months :) Thierry, I am certain your acceptance will be one of the quickest in the DM history and I hope you will also want to proceed towards a DD status. Welcome, Steffen
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