AM's Final Report for Joost van Baal <joostvb@xs4all.nl>
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(by Anthony Fok, November 26, 2000)
Joost van Baal has completed the new-maintainer checklist to my
satisfaction. I recommend that he be accepted as a Debian developer.
First name: Joost
Last name: van Baal
Home Page: http://mdcc.cx/~vanbaal/ , http://mdcc.cx/
Current e-mail: joostvb@xs4all.nl
Desired e-mail: joostvb@debian.org --> joostvb-debian@mdcc.cx
debian-private: joostvb@debian.org
1. Initial Contact
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Joost van Baal was assigned to me on 2000-09-03. I accepted the
assignment on 2000-09-07 and sent Joost an initial contact e-mail.
Joost replied the same day with follow-ups in the next two days and
provided me with all the needed information.
2. Idenfication Check
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Joost has provided a GnuPG-signed scanned image of his Netherlands
passport. He has also provided the following public key:
$ gpg --check-sigs joostvb
pub 1024D/969457F0 2000-01-28 Joost van Baal <joostvb@xs4all.nl>
sig! 969457F0 2000-01-28 Joost van Baal <joostvb@xs4all.nl>
sig? F7536648 2000-05-08
sig! 85417161 2000-05-24 Joost Kooij <joost@kooij.com>
sig! DA263218 2000-07-10 Thimo Neubauer <thimo@debian.org>
sig! 66468D05 2000-07-10 Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
sig! F4984AE0 2000-07-26 Dale Scheetz (Dwarf #1) <dwarf@polaris.net>
sig! 6CE5FB54 2000-07-23 David Frey <dfrey@debian.org>
sig? 3B0BB9A9 2000-08-12
sub 2048g/5550DC85 2000-01-28 [expires: 2005-01-26]
sig! 969457F0 2000-01-28 Joost van Baal <joostvb@xs4all.nl>
Joost's key has been signed by multiple Debian developers
including Thimbo, Marcelo, Dale and David.
Identification check passed.
3. Philosophy and Procedures
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I asked Joost 5 questions: list some free software licenses; name some
non-free software and explain; why there were no KDE1/KDE2; PINE; and
what the Social Contract means to him. All are answered very well.
His answer on the KDE and Qt is especially comprehensive.
> 5. What does the Debian Social Contract mean to you? :-)
I think the Debian Social Contract is a good way to make sure
the intentions of people joining Debian, and therefore the
idea behind Debian, stays somewhat the same. It is this idea
that I like about Debian. I believe it is `a good thing' to
support free and open source software.
Policy and procedures check passed.
4. Tasks and Skills
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In Joost's own words (September 2000),
FYI, I graduated at Eindhoven Technical University, as a
mathematician. Currently, I work for Origin
(http://www.origin-it.com/), and I just started the LogReport
organisation with some other people (http://www.logreport.org/).
I got a little experience in writing C and C++, a lot of
experience in hacking Perl and shell scripts. I know about
MTA's like sendmail, qmail and postfix. I know about DNS and
nameservers like Bind and dnscache.
He has found a new job: "I'm working for LogReport now.
LogReport gets funded by the NLnet foundation. I'm writing GPL'd code
professionaly; I consider myself lucky & I'm very happy with it!"
His original intent was to package blackened, an IRC client. However,
Blackened shared code with ircII and contained an obsolete ircII
license which is non-free, and Blackened upstream author is
unresponsive to help fix the problem. So, Joost may instead package
xfloatgb and aft. Also, he is hoping to package MCL real-soon-now, at:
http://members.ams.chello.nl/svandong/thesis/index.html#source
that's a a Markov Cluster algorithm in C, for the math section.
He has also submitted patches for mutt and maildrop upstream.
Anyhow, he did package blackened in June, and is available at:
deb http://mdcc.cx/debian/ potato contrib
deb-src http://mdcc.cx/debian/ potato contrib
It was quite well packaged. There were two Lintian errors:
E: blackened: unknown-control-file config
E: blackened: unknown-control-file templates
But these are Lintian's own bugs because Lintian does not yet recognize
debconf. :-)
There were some minor bugs such as postinst trying to create
/etc/irc/servers while /etc/irc directory hasn't been created yet; lack
of Build-Depends; minor typo; etc., but Joost was very quick at fixing
them. Also, this package uses some advanced features like debconf,
update-alternatives, and seems to work flawlessly. Apparently, Joost
is quite adept at building Debian packages.
Tasks and skills check passed.
5. Evaluation and Check-in
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I recommend that Joost van Baal becomes a Debian developer.
Yours sincerely,
Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>
Application Manager for Joost van Baal
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Anthony Fok Tung-Ling Civil and Environmental Engineering
foka@ualberta.ca, foka@debian.org University of Alberta, Canada
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