Summary report for Jochen Voss <jvoss2@gmx.de>
Identity
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Jochen's GPG key is signed by Christoph Baumann <cgb@debian.org> in
turn signed by Michael Meskes:
pub 1024D/211B1025 1999-12-27 Jochen Voss <voss@mathematik.uni-kl.de>
sig! 211B1025 1999-12-27 Jochen Voss <voss@mathematik.uni-kl.de>
sig! 133108EA 2001-03-15 Christoph Baumann <chris@mathphys.fsk.uni-heidelberg.de>
uid Jochen Voss <jvoss2@gmx.de>
Jochen would like to have "voss" as his login on Debian machines, and
have his debian mail forwarded to jvoss2@gmx.de
Philosophy & Procedures
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I asked Jochen to explain the Social Contract to me, which he did to my
satisfaction. I aslo asked him about the Developers Reference and
Debian Policy, to which he replied:
"I did never read these two texts as a whole (As I did not do with
my phone book). But I used these several times to look up some
information, and thus will have skimmed through most of the text."
After discussing packaging and licensing issues with him, I'm sure his
"skimming" has been much more than that.
Regarding licensing issues, he's very careful and I think he has a good
understanding of the DFSG. We took some time to discuss licensing
concepts (e.g., "Public Domain", something that doesn't exist in
Germany) and the difference between "linking" and "distributing" from a
licensing POV.
Tasks & Skills
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Jochen has adopted the chbg package and has done a good job with it.
He also wants to adopt some other orphaned packages and upload programs
of his own to Debian, for example "sanduhr" (hourglass), a really nice
timer integrated with GNOME. Jochen is upstream for a package that's
been in Debian for some years and that has caused much redirection of
developing time and has provided stress relief as well, namely: moon
buggy. As the moon-buggy bug package reveals, Joss is a very
responsive upstream.
Recommendation
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I joyfully recommend Jochen to be accepted as a Debian Developer.
--
Marcelo
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