Summary report for Sebastien Chaumat <Sebastien.Chaumat@ens-lyon.fr>
Identity
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Sebastien's GPG Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>:
pub 1024D/9925DC13 2001-03-10 Sébastien Chaumat (SEb) <Sebastien.Chaumat@ens-lyon.fr>
sig! 9925DC13 2001-03-10 Sébastien Chaumat (SEb) <Sebastien.Chaumat@ens-lyon.fr>
sig! 6E8169D2 2001-03-12 Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>
Sebastien would like to have "schaumat" as his login on Debian
machines, and have his debian mail forwarded to
Sebastien.Chaumat@ens-lyon.fr
Philosophy & Procedures
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Sebastien is very enthusiastic about Debian and it's philosophy. He
agrees with the Social Contract, and from my email discussion with
Sebastien I think he understands it. Also from my email discussion I
think Sebastien understands the procedures related to Debian
Maintainership. His intented work on Debian overlaps between
philosophy and skills. He's written "replicator", since he's a Physics
PhD Student and network admin at Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon.
"When I started 3 years ago there weren't any Linux servers here nor
any support for Linux. I managed to convince people to try Debian.
They did but they had one condition for the large scale deployment:
they wanted an automatic installer." He's very ambitious, as he
explains in the future he'll have the power to decide what technologies
get deployed at his institution, which is well placed in the French
Educational and Research system.
Regarding licensing issues, I think he's got a good grasp of it. Like
many developers, he used a very broad interpretention of a rather
focused point when confronted with one of my questions, but, in my
opinion, he's eager to consider other people's point of view and is
able to argue in favor of his own views.
Tasks & Skills
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Like I said, Sebastien has developed "replicator", and he's already
using it on a "on medium scale (nearly 40 installed computers)
installation" and is looking forward to use it to install a larger
organization. Replicator can be found at sourceforge[0]. He would
like it to become part of Debian proper, as he has not only ideas for
future development, but also would like make additions and
modifications to Debian's infraestructure (e.g., debconf and policy).
I revised the packaging (and design) of replicator, and I think it
suffices for this part of my report.
Recommendation
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I strongly recommend Sebastien to be accepted as a Debian Developer.
[0] http://replicator.sourceforge.net/
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