AM report on Neil L. Roeth ========================== Neil writes about himself: -------------------------- I have been using Debian for about two and a half years, and have been very impressed with the quality and stability of the distribution. I used Slackware for a while before that. As a professional Unix developer, I knew I could contribute to making it even better. The opportunity came when the programming language A+ was released as Open Source software by Morgan Stanley. I have used the language for almost seven years, and now it can be a part of Debian. There have been several requests for the Debian packages, so I packaged it (see below). Obviously, there is interest in this package. I don't like to do anything without doing it well, so that means I want to maintain the package, do the uploads, take care of bug reports, etc., without having to continually bother a sponsor (though Zhaoway has been a great sponsor thus far and has not expressed any reluctance to continue). My job is developing trading applications for the finance industry. Morgan Stanley is a big company, so I rarely do anything lower level than application programming. My company is planning to move to Linux in a fairly large way, so I will likely be using Linux systems there in the near future. I am happy about that, since I believe GNU/Linux software is very high quality. Advocate: --------- Neil has been sponsored by Zhaoway. Zhaoway advocates Neil's application: Neil Roeth has packaged the A+ package, A+ is a programming language descended from the APL. It comes from Morgan Stanley under GPL at http://aplusdev.org. The packaging involves an XEmacs interface, shared libraries, and dealing with X fonts. So it's quite some work. My communication with him during sponsoring also showed that Neil is a responsible person. Identity: --------- Neil's key is signed by debian developer Dave Baker: pub 1024D/FAEEB4A9 2002-01-15 Neil L. Roeth <neil@occamsrazor.net> sig! FAEEB4A9 2002-01-15 Neil L. Roeth <neil@occamsrazor.net> sig! D7BCA55D 2002-02-09 Dave Baker <dsb3@debian.org> sub 1024g/85541C31 2002-01-15 sig! FAEEB4A9 2002-01-15 Neil L. Roeth <neil@occamsrazor.net> Philososphy&Procedures: ----------------------- Neil knows our Philosophy and agrees to it. He answered to my complete satisfaction my questions about free and non-free licences, and about the basic debian procedures. Tasks&Skills: ------------- Neil has packaged the a+ programming system (source package: aplus-fsf). This is a non-trivial package comprising a binary package for the runtime system, development package, a package for an emacs mode, documentation package. Lintian-clean, builds and installs cleanly, and well done. I could only find some minor glitches which he offered to fix immediately. Evaluation and Check In: ------------------------ I'm glad to recommend Neil Roeth as a new member to Debian. Preferred login: neil Email forward to: neil@occamsrazor.net -Ralf. --
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