Report for new developer applicant Steve Kemp <skx@tardis.ed.ac.uk>: 1. Identification & Background ------------------------------ Steve is sponsored and advocated by Tony Mancill <tmancill@debian.org>: ---SNIP--- Steve demonstrates both willingness and ability to make a positive contribution to Debian. He brings programming skills (he is the upstream author of the gnump3d package) and his first packaging effort is more complicated than many, including init scripts, conf files, and debconf. He has been able to make extensive modifications to his package quickly. - From my interaction with him, as his sponsor, I believe that he is eager to participate and add value to the project. ---SNIP--- Check with Keyid 0xCD4C0D9D: ID Check passed, Key signed from 1 existing DD, Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>. Output from gpg --check-sigs: pub 1024D/CD4C0D9D 2002-05-29 Steve Kemp <skx@tardis.ed.ac.uk> sig! 5C6153AD 2002-06-07 Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> sig!3 536DEB95 2002-06-19 Graeme Mathieson <mathie@wossname.org.uk> sig! 5621E907 2002-06-07 Mark Brown <Mark.Brown@aculab.com> sig!3 CD4C0D9D 2002-05-29 Steve Kemp <skx@tardis.ed.ac.uk> sub 2048g/AC995563 2002-05-29 sig! CD4C0D9D 2002-05-29 Steve Kemp <skx@tardis.ed.ac.uk> Background: Steve has a long history with computers and free software. While he started writing code in assembly, his most notable additions to the free software world may come in his work on Emacs running on Win32 and his work documenting GNU software running on this platform. Over time he found his way to GNU/Linux and Debian where's he's now interested in continuing his advocacy and development efforts. 2. Philosophy and Procedures ---------------------------- Steve has done a fantastic job of demonstrating his in-depth knowledge of Debian philosophy and procedures. He's engaged in insightful discussion of philosophical issues relating to Debian and gave carefully researched and correct answers to every policy question he was asked. 3. Tasks and Skills ------------------- Steve maintains the Debian package for gnump3d: a piece of software for which he is also the upstream author. He's been maintaining the software thoughtfully and appropriately for a good deal of time now. I'm confident in his abilities as a package maintainer. 4. Recommendation ----------------- I recommend that Steve be accepted as a developer. Account: skx Forward-Email: skx@tardis.ed.ac.uk -- B. Mako Hill mako@debian.org http://people.debian.org/~mako/
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