Report for NM applicant Thorsten Sauter <tsauter@gmx.net> 0. Recommendation ----------------- Thorsten makes an outstandingly good candidate and I am convinced he will make an even better Debian Developer. Account: tsauter Redirect email: tsauter@gmx.net 1. Identification & Background ------------------------------ Check with key-id 07447252 ID check passed; key signed by 1 current developer, Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org>. $ gpg --check-sigs 07447252 pub 1024D/07447252 2001-10-21 Thorsten Sauter <tsauter@gmx.net> sig!3 07447252 2001-10-21 Thorsten Sauter <tsauter@gmx.net> sig!3 89BF7E2B 2002-11-17 Daniel Kobras <kobras@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> sub 1024g/6BD5DCE1 2001-10-21 sig! 07447252 2001-10-21 Thorsten Sauter <tsauter@gmx.net> 1 signature not checked due to a missing key Thorsten's reasons for applying: ----8<---- Well, I'm working now since eight years with linux (starting with kernel 1.3.25), and doing more and more work with it. I'm working currently as sysadmin and advise many unix-based systems. I have used many different linux distributions starting with suse, then redhat and finally I have stopped on debian. Debian is a very good distribution, ready for bussines and ready for desktop. I'm using debian now on over 25 machines, at home and at work, and I have become more and more familiar with the concepts and ideas behind debian. Now it's time to give something back to the community. Not only with blank sayings, but with real work. Thats my intend to do for debian. I have also started my own development project (called grdesktop), which is of course published under the GPL, and is a little piece, which I can do for all the people around the world which spend their time for free software. Btw grdesktop will currently checked from the gnu-team to become offical GNU software. Now, back to debian. As you can see I spend many time to package useful (hope so) package for the debian distribution, and I write bugreports however I found a bug. Often, if is possible for me, with patches attached. I'm also help the debian-boot team to create the new debian-installer, maybe not enough, but I'm working on it. I'm testing parts of the installer, and write some new code, in the hope it will be integrated into d-i. Why getting an offical DD state. Now, it help me to package my software easier, because I can now test it on all the different machines, and I can upload the software faster, if a bugreport was posted. ---->8---- His advocate, Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>: ----8<---- I sponsor him with 3 packages. Its normal to find things in packages from new maintainers, but he was really fast at fixing them. Now I have a hard job to find anything in new packages that he can fix, ie. his packages are in a good state normally. So I think he has the needed skills to start with the NM process. ---->8---- 2. Philosophy and Procedures ---------------------------- Policy: Thorsten explained the DFSG and the Social Contract well, and agrees with them. He also agreed to abide by the DMUP. Procedures: The applicant passed the procedures questions (27 in all, derived from Joerg's templates) in remarkably short time. 3. Tasks and Skills ------------------- Thorsten is the maintainer of 7 packages in Debian: three to do with systrace, plus libpgp-adodb, xmms-kjfol, grkesktop (he's also upstream) and idesk. He has experience with plain packages, both with and without the use of debhelper, and with a dpatch-based package (idesk). However, more importantly he's a co-maintainer for cdrom-checker, debian-installer-utils and lvmcfg, each of which is a component in the Debian Installer (d-i) project. Thorsten wrote cdrom-checker and lvmcfg himself. A couple of the d-i team said this about Thorsten: ----8<---- From: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org> He's done some good cleanup on a lot of the code and is able to work on his own. Among the things he's done is work to get LVM working with d-i and other various partition/mkfs related stuff. His code seems to be of good quality. If his policy and packaging skills are as good as his d-i hacking skills, I'm sure he'll make a fine developer. ----8<---- ----8<---- From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Sure. He already got write access to the d-i CVS, and made a few d-i modules himself; lvmcfg and cdrom-checker. He is also working quite a lot on debian-installer-utils. debian-installer-utils contains among other things one of the partitioning tools we are working on. lvmcfg is related to this, creating LVM volumes. cdrom-checker check a CD for md5 sum inconsistencies. I haven't checked is code in any detail, but the little I have checked looked solid to me. He is one of the few active developers on d-i at the moment. ----8<---- -- Andrew Stribblehill <ads@debian.org> Systems programmer, IT Service, University of Durham, England
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