Summary for David B Harris <dbharris@eelf.ddts.net>
Part of this report is based on Brandon L. Griffith's report from back
in August 2001 (see [1] for the summary). There were some
complications with the ID check and David decided to drop out at some
point; he has done lots of work in the meantime though, and recently
decided to go through NM again. As I said, my report is partly based
on Brandon's. That is, I took his P&P, and asked for more P&P as well
as T&S, etc.
Identity
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David's key (0x59DDCB9F) has been signed by Jeff Bailey and Lukas Geyer.
pub 4096R/59DDCB9F 2003-12-31 David B Harris <dbharris@eelf.ddts.net>
Key fingerprint = CC53 F124 35C0 7BC2 58FE 7A3C 157D DFD9 59DD CB9F
sig!3 D0980A99 2004-01-08 Jeff Bailey <jbailey@debian.org>
sig!3 7F9DA3B2 2004-01-08 Lukas Geyer <lukas@debian.org>
sig!3 59DDCB9F 2003-12-31 David B Harris <dbharris@eelf.ddts.net>
Background
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David writes, "I'm currently living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I'm
23 years old, and a systems administrator by heredity and trade. I've
worked professionally for 5 years, and unprofessionally (typically at
night, when nobody else was around) for a couple of years before that.
I was first introduced to Debian via 2.1 (though it's possible I might
have been introduced to it much earlier via a set of Infomagic CDs),
and since the release of 2.2 I've taken a more active role in the
Debian community as a whole. For the past two and a half years, I've
been more involved with the packaging side of things. I currently
either maintain or comaintain the following packages: gmrun, ipband,
sopwith, snac, shaper, gqmpeg, dpatch, alsa-{driver,modules,oss,utils}.
I've been using and operating computers since I was a young boy - I
believe I was around four when I was allowed to play with a parent's
mainframe login, and I was around five or six when I received my first
personal computer, an Atari. These days I tend to stick with commodity
hardware, as it's plentiful, cheap, and powerful (enough)."
Philosophy & Procedures
-----------------------
David understands Debian's philosophy and agrees with it.
Tasks & Skills
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David is the co-maintainer (with Jordi Mallach and Steve Kowalik) of
various ALSA packages (alsa-driver, alsa-lib, alsa-modules-i386,
alsa-oss & alsa-utils) and of dpatch (with Joerg Jaspert and Gergely
Nagy). He also maintains gmrun, gqmpeg, ipband, shaper, snac and
sopwith. David has various sponsors over the years, I got in touch
with Jordi Mallach and Luca Filipozzi who both recommended him. He
has been part of the Debian community for a long time, and is quite
helpful on IRC (where he is known as ElectricElf).
Recommendation
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I recommend that David be accepted as a Debian maintainer.
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint-discuss/2001/debian-newmaint-discuss-200108/msg00012.html
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Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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