New Maintainers
This is a summary of the AM Report for Week Ending 21 Sep 2003.
6 applicants became maintainers.
Jay Bonci <jaybonci@debian.org>
Well I started in the industry a few years ago as a QA
engineer for Microsoft at 18. After getting out of there,
and moving on, I started my own business to do consulting
work. Through a somewhat weird chain of events, I fell in
with a website Everything2.com, where I am currently the lead
maintainer. This expanded out to do work on the everything
engine (http://sf.net/projects/everydevel), a mature web
development platform that currently powers many different
websites, and is itself extensible through different plugins.
(This is one place where the debian .deb architecture has
really helped us to ease deployment). It has definitely
broadened my experience in Free Software and has entrenched
me in it and the broad world of Perl. And, for the most
part, I've loved every minute of it (save those times that
apache simply won't start, or perl unexpectedly segfaults).
As far as my bio, I'd like you to tack on that as of now, I
am an independent consultant for VA software (that is my
job).
Jay maintains libcarp-assert-perl, libclass-factory-util-perl,
libgeo-metar-perl, libio-zlib-perl, libipc-run-perl,
libipc-sharedcache-perl, liblog-agent-perl,
liblog-agent-rotate-perl, libmodule-build-perl,
libmodule-info-perl, libnet-scp-expect-perl,
libpod-coverage-perl, libsub-uplevel-perl,
libtest-builder-tester-perl, libtest-mockobject-perl, and
libtie-regexphash-perl.
Adam Majer <adamm@debian.org>
Adam said that Debian was the first Linux distribution he
used. Adam is interested in Debian because "I found Debian to
be the most liberal distribution available. It contains the
greatest amount of free software and it is a dynamic
distribution. No one person dictates on what should and
should not be included. "
Adam wants to package software for Debian and to fix bugs.
Adam maintains gtml, jikes, jikes-contrib, libhoard, libjsw,
lpe, memprof, mysqlcc, xshipwars, xshipwars-images-st,
xshipwars-sounds-st, and yiff.
Quôc Peyrot <chojin@debian.org>
Ok, I'm Quôc Peyrot (Quôc is my first name just in case you
are wondering ;) ) and I am packaging with Julien Lemoine a
bunch of GPL software about automatic program transformation
(see cwi-* package); these programs are from different R&D
Laboratory (the main is CWI http://www.cwi.nl/). Unfortunately
they are often difficult to install and we found, with Julien
Lemoine, to be useful to make package in order to help other
people to use these wonderful tools. Some bugs were
encountered, fixed and reported to authors. There are a lot
of package to make to provide all their "program
transformation tool", and as I use intensively these tools we
figured out I can help maintaining these packages. I am
co-maintainer of all cwi-* package (and maintainer of
cwi-boxenv, my first package) which can be found in unstable
release.
About my how I came to Linux: in my school (EPITA, same as
Julien Lemoine) we are *nix oriented. In January 2001 I
entered in LRDE (EPITA Research & Development Laboratory)
which is clearly free software oriented. All computer are
using Debian and I have the pleasure to work in this
laboratory with some "free community renowned" men: Akim
Demaille (who maintains Autoconf, bison, a2ps ...),
Guillaume-Alexandre Duret-Lutz (who maintains automake),
Didier Verna (xemacs, curve ...). In this laboratory we are
working on Olena, a generic image processing library under
GPL liscence. As you can see, since 1 year and half, I'm
trying to be involve more and more in free software community
and as you can expect I really like free software philosophy,
and I would like to continue to increase my help in this
community.
You can see our laboratory work and member at
http://www.lrde.epita.fr (if it doesn't work try
http://www.lrde.epita.fr:800/ since we are encountered some
connection problems. and
http://www.lrde.epita.fr//cgi-bin/twiki/view (or
http://www.lrde.epita.fr:800/cgi-bin/twiki/view)
Quôc maintains cantus, gnupod-tools, gtkpod, strategoxt
Thomas Scheffczyk <scheffczyk@debian.org>
About myself: I'm 37 years old, married and have two
children. We live together in a small village near Mainz,
the capitol of 'Rheinland-Pfalz' a kind of Country in
Germany.
As I mentioned before do I work in the University of
Mainz. Because of security concerns the head office of the
university has an own network and is connected with the other
parts of the university only over a firewall system.
Christoph Martin, the debian developer who sign my key,
actually is the computer department chief here in the head
office. Starting with the first firewall years ago he
introduced debian and since then it was and is used for all
our unix systems except for the big database servers.
About six years ago I started to work with unix. At first
only as a user, later as a database-developer and about three
years ago also as an administrator. First I maintained only
single services like dhcp or dns. Later I learned to setup
and maintain complete servers. (I have to learn a lot more,
but at least now I know that and what I have to learn ;-)
Right now I'm responsible for data an network security, for
the network itself with it's switches and routers, for the
mail system and especially for our firewall systems. A
relatively new assignment are roadwarriors and their secure
connection to our network.
I think, I don't have to mention that we use debian for all
this tasks. I learned so much and took so much from the
community that I wanted to give something back to it. A
couple of months ago I noticed that the debian packet of the
mason firewall based on an old version of mason that didn't
support iptables. On the homepage of mason was a new version
available. Christoph Martin asked the maintainer of this
packet, Jeff Liquia if he has plans to update the package. He
told him that he was very busy and that mason is a low
priority thread for him. Then we asked Jeff about a NMU and
he said this would be ok. He also said that even when he has
no time to update mason he don't want to see this package
orphaned, but if we want to maintain the package it would be
perfectly ok for him.
In this situation Christoph Martin asked me, if I would like
to maintain mason. I would like. And because of this I apply
to become a debian developer.
Thomas maintains annoyance-filter, mason and udptunnel
Michael Schiansky <ms@debian.org>
back in 96 i finished my apprenticeship at siemens in Munich.
there i was taught in SCO unix and sinix. [...] since more
than a year i use debian potato, woody (as it was testing)
and now sarge.
I'm responsible admin on about 10 servers and workstation.
some of them in use for more than 1000 days. they are located
at home, at university, at client-side and at an ISP.
i want to join debian to give back something that others gave
me: a chance to get high quality software freely.
Michael maintains mp3c, tardy, and xcb
Arthur de Jong <adejong@debian.org>
I'm a software engineer at West Consulting in the Netherlands
(www.west.nl). I finished my computer science study at Delft
University of Technology (www.its.tudelft.nl) about two years
ago. During my study I first installed Linux (Slackware 1.0
I believe) around 1995. I upgraded from a.out to elf by hand
(recompiling gcc, libc and all the tools by hand), horribly
trashing my setup. I later removed it and used windows a
couple of years.
A couple of years back I was looking to reinstall Linux and
came across Debian. We already had Debian (bo or hamm, I'm not
sure) running on De Koornbeurs (a youth organisation I'm
involved with, see www.koornbeurs.nl) and were very pleased
with it. I liked the non-commercial attitude very much and was
very pleased with the technical aspects (packaging, smooth
upgrades, open structure, etc).
After using Debian some time I became more involved with it.
Reporting bugs, following debian news, occasionally helping
out on debianhelp.org, etc. I also develop software
professionally and privately and as an experiment started
packaging new stuff as debian packages.
Arthur maintains cvsd, and randomize-lines
Thanks to Pascal Hakim for compiling this listing.
--
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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