1. Identification & Background
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KeyID is 0x:EDD88CEA, and it is signed by an existing developer,
Lars Wirzenius <lars@debian.org>:
pub 1024D/EDD88CEA 2000-07-24 Kalle Kivimaa <kalle.kivimaa@iki.fi>
Key fingerprint = BBA5 52BA 160D 5688 61D5 0AD4 7579 1CA6 EDD8 8CEA
sig! E0442D74 2002-05-19 Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>
Kalle has been involved in the community for a while, I will quote his
history in full:
> I decided to apply for a DD when I last ran into serious problems
> trying to install something on my laptop running Sid (aptitude was
> depending on something that was not in Sid but was in Woody). I hang
> around in an IRC-channel with Lars Wirzenius and when I once again
> complained about quality control he basically said "either put up or
> shut up" so I decided to put up. I also would like to get JSPWiki
> (http://www.jspwiki.org) into Debian as I find it a very good
> Java-based WikiWiki-engine (and I'm involved in its development).
>
> I've been using Debian exclusively since 2001 (before that I used
> Debian in 1998 and 1999 but decided to change to SuSE because I wasn't
> satisfied with the quality of stable/testing/unstable for personal
> desktop usage) and I find it a very good choice for server usage. I
> would like to help making it even better as a server platform and a
> good contender for various more desktop-oriented distributions.
>
> Couldn't I do all that without being a DD? More or less yes. I could
> file bug reports (with patches) and try to find sponsors (Lars seems
> to agree to sponsor C software) for various orphaned packages. On the
> other hand, as a DD I could start to figure out with Lars how to make
> testing distribution a viable choice as a desktop platform (security
> issue being the biggest problem in my opinion).
>
> I have been more or less exclusively Linux user since 1994 (used
> Windows mainly for games and some work-related issues) but I haven't
> been too active in the actual free software community. Me and a couple
> of others started Patchbot project last spring but it sort of fizzled
> out. Currently I'm involved in developing JSPWiki and trying to create
> a sort of SourceForge type of environment for creating and running
> various (live-action) roleplaying games (Ropemylly, using JSPWiki as
> the engine).
2. Philosophy and Procedures
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Kalle displayed a very good grasp of Debian's philosophy and
procedures. He answered pretty much all of my questions perfectly on
the first try.
3. Task and Skills
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Kalle has maintained several packages in Debian for a while now,
including libgnu-regexp-java, and he was working on packages for jspwiki
which looked good. His answers to my Task and Skills questions were
excellent.
4. Recommendation
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I recommend Kalle become a Debian developer.
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Forward-Email: killer@killeri.net
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