Summary: Accept Name: Jay Bonci E-Mail: jay@bonci.com Debian Account: jaybonci Forward Mail To: jay@bonci.com Initially I felt his answers were being rushed, and he wasn't taking the time to fully read and understand policy, instead just diving in to answer questions I asked. This shows heavily in his early answers. However the longer time in the NM queue has given him a chance to prove otherwise, and I now feel he has a very good understanding of policy and will make valuable contributions to Debian. Identification -------------- Key signed by existing developer: Josh Huber <huber@debian.org> pub 1024D/E0B8B2DE 2002-06-29 Jay Bonci <jay@bonci.com> Key fingerprint = 562B 35DC BE8D 7802 DB31 6423 64D8 790F E0B8 B2DE sig!3 E0B8B2DE 2002-06-29 Jay Bonci <jay@bonci.com> sig!3 6B21489A 2002-08-08 Josh Huber <huber@paradoxical.net> sub 1024g/E13C080E 2002-06-29 sig! E0B8B2DE 2002-06-29 Jay Bonci <jay@bonci.com> Passed. Background ---------- Jay wrote the following about himself: > Well I started in the industry a few years ago as a QA engineer > for Microsoft at 18. After getting out of there, and moving on, I > started my own business to do consulting work. Through a somewhat > wierd chain of events, I fell in with a website Everything2.com, > where I am currently the lead maintainer. This expanded out to do > work on the everything engine (http://sf.net/projects/everydevel), a > mature web development platform that currently powers many different > websites, and is itself extensible through different plugins. > (This is one place where the debian .deb architecture has really > helped us to ease deployment). It has definitely broadened my > experience in Free Software and has entrenched me in it and the > broad world of Perl. And, for the most part, I've loved every > minute of it (save those times that apache simply won't start, > or perl unexpectedly segfaults). > As far as my bio, I'd like you to tack on that as of now, I am an > independant consultant for VA software (that is my job). He indicated he'd like to be in involved in QA work, as well as packaging. Philosophy and Procedures ------------------------- Was able to adequately summarise the intent of the Social Contract and DFSG in his own words. Answered a series of questions on Policy, Procedure and the BTS in a satisfactory way. He agreed to abide by the DMUP. He agreed to abide the Social Contract. He agreed to uphold the DFSG. Passed. Tasks and Skills ---------------- He has packaged two Perl modules, libcarp-assert-perl and libtie-regexphash-perl, both from scratch using debhelper. These have both been sponsored and uploaded into unstable. His sponsor suggested a number of changes to the packages which he made, once they were ready I verified them independantly. He was able to justify packaging decisions he'd made, referring to policy points where proper. Both packages are lintian-clean. As an extra task, I asked him to repackage one of his packages without using debhelper. I verified his non-debhelper packages and pointed out a few problems which he duly fixed. The third and final version is lintian clean, and produces a valid Debian package, identical to the debhelper version. The non-debhelper version of libcarp-assert-perl is available from: http://jay.bonci.com/debian/files/nodh/ He has made a number of bug reports, mostly reporting simple problems with packages. Two, 175437 and 176372, had patches attached -- although the latter was not accepted. A couple of other interesting ones are 175403 and 172444. He has contributed towards the DDTP by providing Spanish translations for the descriptions of his packages. These can be seen at the following URLs. http://ddtp.debian.org/cgi-bin/ddtp.cgi?part=pdesc&package=libcarp-assert-perl http://ddtp.debian.org/cgi-bin/ddtp.cgi?part=pdesc&package=libtie-regexphash-perl He's also intending to work with Joy and the rest of the debian-www team if possible, has already submitted bugs on it and is familiarising himself with the various webtools. Has contributed a patch to the New Maintainer weekly report script to catch future DAM recommendation dates. http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2003/debian-newmaint-200304/msg00006.html He's filed a number of ITPs and ITAs which he intends to follow up on as soon as possible. libclass-date-perl (binary perl), ITP libkrb5-perl (binary perl), ITP libarray-printcols-perl, ITA libipc-sharedcache-perl (binary perl), ITA Passed. Scott -- Scott James Remnant Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange http://netsplit.com/ things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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