Report for new developer applicant: Jarno Elonen
1. Identification & Background
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Jarno was advocated by Riku Voipio:
I know Jarno Elonen personally, he worked as my boss at my previous
workplace. I hold great respect to both his open source vision, as
well as to his programming and Unix/Linux skills. He has
participated debian's kde and openoffice work and his packages (Agi
studio, soikko, nagi that I plan to sponsor ) have been well done,
and all packaging-related problems in those packages have been
quickly resolved. I believe Jarno would be great value to the
project as a developer.
GPG Keyid: F512B8CB
Jarno's key is signed by Riku Voipio.
Background:
Jarno says about himself:
I'm a programmer and have done mostly computer game development - in
a very broad sense - for living. I'm pretty fluent in wide variety
of aspects in software development and have had a chance to do
pretty much anything from sound and graphics design to scripting,
GUI programming, webmastering, video codec design and project
management.
Even after having been a founder in two companies, however, I still
dislike business world in principle. In addition to being greedy and
competitive by definition, it all feels kind of shallow: do boring
and questionable things to get a product sold for a couple of months
and then just forget about it - keeping all the copyrights and code
for yourself, "just in case" or "to protect the owners'
value". While I like the work itself, I loathe wasting and
competition. A human life is short and I know I can contribute more
that that. Until the business culture changes radically or I give up
IT for something completely different, "Sustainable Software" on my
free time is the way to go about it.
Some of my activities:
+ Finnish translations of a few programs
+ Packaging and fixing applications (KDE apps,
OpenOffice, video and graphics stuff)
+ Upstream development: http://agistudio.sf.net/
+ Open *Content* projects like
http://sanakirja.sf.net/ (an ambitious Finnish<->English lexicon project)
Creative Commons @ Finland (discussing, maybe scripting, coming up)
+ Webmastering EFFI.org (Electronic Frontier Finland)
+ Debian specific development:
http://elonen.iki.fi/code/dpkg-merge/
http://elonen.iki.fi/code/parse-apt-files.inc
2. Philosophy and Procedures
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Jarno shows a very personnal and deep understanding of Free Software
and Debian philosophies. He was able to answer all my Questions about
Social Contract, DFSG, BTS etc. to my satisfaction.
I am confident in Jarno's knowledge in both philosophy and policy.
3. Tasks and Skills
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Jarno is Maintainer of agistudio and nagi. Both are very well
packaged. He also answered my other Questions regarding T&S without
major problem. Jarno proved he is able to maintain packages and to
contribute to Debian.
4. Recommendation
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I recommend that Jarno be accepted into the Debian project as a
developer.
Account: elonen
Forward-Email: elonen@iki.fi
Cheers,
Benjamin
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