AM report on Alastair McKinstry
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Alastair about himself:
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I have been using Linux since the pre-1.0 days, and am a software
developer, recently for 3Com (doing kernel development for Linux:
porting Linux to a new processor, on a project that got canned; doing
firmware/driver development). Before that, I was a developer for
Digital/Compaq, doing sysadmin software and kernel development; due to
conflict of interest concerns I did patches (fixes), etc. for Linux
but no big apps. I also did contract work and development, mostly
involving deploying Linux (e.g. in small colleges; fixing X, writing
patches so it works on old, installed hardware, etc).
I am interested in a number of fields: i18n and l10n into Irish and
other celtic languages. I am the developer of ispell modules for
Irish, Scots Gaelic and Manx Gaelic, localisation to Gaelic, etc.
Identity:
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Key signed by Debian member Nikita Schmidt.
pub 1024D/905138F4 2001-10-25 Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org>
sig! 905138F4 2001-10-25 Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org>
sig! B0A5FFDC 2002-01-25 Nikita Schmidt <cetus@snowball.ucd.ie>
sub 1024g/260F4374 2001-10-25 [expires: 2004-10-24]
sig! 905138F4 2001-10-25 Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org>
Advocate:
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The application is advocated by Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>:
Alastair has packaged an Irish dictionary for ispell. There were some
bugs in the initial packagaging, but he promptly corrected those when
I pointed them out. He is also going to look at generating aspell
dictionaries from the same source. I think he has the necessary
skills to become a fine DD.
Philosphy and Procedures:
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Alastair knows our philosphy and agrees to it. He answered my questions
on my favourite case study and on debian procedures to my complete
satisfaction.
Tasks and Skills:
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Alastair is upstream author and maintainer of the debian package
(through the sponsorship of Tollef Fog Heen) of the ispell-ga package
(source package spell-ga). This package provides an ispell dictionary
for the irish (gaellic) language. The package is generally well done,
I just had a minor remark since the copyright file did not contain the
standard phrase referring to the location of the full GPL text.
Evaluation and Check in:
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I'm glad to recommand Alastair McKinstry as a new member to Debian.
Preferred login: mckinstry if >8 characters OK
amck otherwise
Email forwarded to: alastairmck@eircom.net
-Ralf.
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