Summary for Wesley Terpstra <wesley@terpstra.ca> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ In summary, Wesley writes: I was introduced to *nix via the internet which my highschool Enligh teacher got me using about 9 years ago. Shortly thereafter, I switched from TC++ to gcc and have never switched back. Since then, I've been developing on linux for 8 years. I ran ygdrasil and slackware intermittently for a year and a half. Then I switched to debian and have run it since - about 6 years. I love free software. However, I am more of the Open Source is useful camp than the information belongs to the world camp. I am a programmer by trade and I love writing software. Being able to access the source code of software that I am compiling against is invaluable. The reason I would like to volunteer to assist the debian project is because I run it! Often software I am looking for has not been packaged. I could request that it be packaged, but I have a lot of experience building .debs and it usually faster to just package them myself. These packages I build generally float around in use by myself and my friends when others could benefit. Finally, I've been goaded by my friends into getting off my ass and going through the NM process. :-) ID ^^ Wesley's key is signed by Randall Donald <rdonald@debian.org> dsilvers@ennui:~$ gpg --check-sigs terpstra pub 1024D/718A9256 2002-01-07 Wesley W. Terpstra <wesley@terpstra.ca> sig! 718A9256 2002-01-07 Wesley W. Terpstra <wesley@terpstra.ca> sig! 6C27DEAB 2002-01-23 Randall Donald <rdonald@debian.org> sub 4096g/53443178 2002-01-07 [expires: 2004-01-07] sig! 718A9256 2002-01-07 Wesley W. Terpstra <wesley@terpstra.ca> Philosophy and Procedures ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Wesley has answered many questions relating to policy, the BTS, NMUs, The DFSG etc. He has demonstrated knowledge of the debian list server. He and I also had a debate about whether upstream packages should contain debian packaging rules or not -- I believe he has now taken this to the debian-devel list for further discussion. Tasks and Skills ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Wesley worked on the packaging for State Threads: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/state-threads/st-1.3.tar.gz He also did a lot of packaging work for a now defunct company (Javien) deb http://www.javien.org/debian woody|potato main deb-src http://www.javien.org/debian woody|potato main His packaging was to a high standard, save a couple of cosmetic errors which he has demonstrated an ability to take bug reports and correct problems. Recommendation ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I therefore recommend that Wesley be made a Debian Maintainer. Debian Login: terpstra Forwarding Address: wesley@terpstra.ca
Attachment:
pgpTSmqF1BgJB.pgp
Description: PGP signature