Report for new developer applicant Sylvain le Gall:
0. Recommendation
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I recommend to accept Sylvain le Gall as new Developer of the Debian
Project. I was AM for the second part; everything including P&P was
done by Rene.
1. Identification & Background
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Check with Keyid 0xFB0DFE9B
ID Check passed, Key signed by at least one existing Debian Developer.
pub 1024D/FB0DFE9B 2003-01-30 Sylvain LE GALL <sylvain.le-gall@polytechnique.org>
Key fingerprint = ECF0 A05D A5D0 40B5 82BB 8A2C 8ABD 9BA1 FB0D FE9B
sig! 5DF03167 2003-07-14 Jerome Marant <jmarant@nerim.net>
sig!3 E0BA04C1 2003-06-05 Ralf Treinen <treinen@debian.org>
sig!3 F2C423BC 2003-06-09 Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@bononia.it>
sig!3 03F35988 2003-06-13 Xavier Roche <roche@httrack.com>
sig! 29499F61 2003-06-15 Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>
sig!3 9AACBFB8 2003-05-26 Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>
Also, his is a version 4 key and thus valid according to the definition for
new keys in the Debian keyring.
Applicant writes:
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Actually i am 25 years old. I am french and i have studied for the 4
last years at Ecole Polytechnique and ENST in Paris. I am a programmer.
I begin to be interested in computer science when i was 7 years old...
But i did not understand anything, my first try was only to play games
and try to break the password on my father's computer ( i don't remember
if i succeed ). I begin to program by just copying program from a
book...
I begin with a Macintosh, then a Amstrad PC 1512. I bought my first
computer in 1993... I begin to play with programmation and MS DOS (
Quick Basic / ASM on DOS 6.22 Win 3.11 ). I try Turbo Pascal and Borland
C++. I stay for a long time on Borland C++, Delphi and Power Builder. In
1998 i give a try to a redhat. At this time, i was not able to
understand all the concept lying behind GNU/Linux and the try was short.
I switch back to Win 98. In 2000, i meet some guies who use Debian
Linux. They explain me the philosophy of Free Software and i give a try
to Suse. I was very happy with it. It only takes me a long time to made
all my hardware to work with Suse. I finally find my way in the Linux
Kernel to made all my hardware work, when after a upgrade of my Suse,
she never wakes up...
And then comes debian. There was a mirror at my school, i download the
first CD. Install it and it was the beginning of the disappearance of
all other OSes from my computer. It is about two year that i don't use
anymore Windows.
The reason i came to debian and free software is the essence of the free
software ( to my mind ) : open source and free right to use. Open
source from my point of view is something NECESSARY. Nobody can ever
become a good programmer, without reading the code of other people...
The free right to use is also something very interesting. I was tired of
trying to get "illegal" crack et al. I was not at ease with this sort of
permanent outlaw... Debian is indeed the best choice for a programmer.
If i am accepted in Debian, i will try to give a hand to the Debian
Ocaml Task Force. I found that Ocaml is a great programming language and
Debian is one of the better distribution which support it. I want to
package library and program to make student use debian ( trying to
develop ocaml application as a student with debian is easy... compared
to developping the same under windows, redhat or something like that ).
I think making the life of computer science student easier is a part of the
Social Contract. Moreover, i write my self some programs ( in order to
integrate some of my package in debian ) and i give it back to the
upstream ( mldonkey contains 3 programs to manage mldonkey files with
debconf ).
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Searching Google for him returns his savannah membership (where he is
member since 2002-11-21, and working with two OCaml-groups), and some
discussions about OCaml, and code written by him.
His advocate, Stefano Zacchiroli (zack), writes:
| Sylvain has done a great job packaging mldonkey. He got in touch with
| upstream proposing patches and also wrote from scratch a set of tools
| (written in OCaml) to better interact with mldonkey. He has also
| promptly performed the modifications I suggest to him on the package.
|
| I think he can do a lot for debian mainly, but not limited to, for the
| efforts related to maintaining OCaml related programs and libraries.
2. Philosophy and Procedures
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This check was done by Rene, and Sylvain passed it without real problems.
3. Tasks and Skills
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He answered my questions regarding T&S without real problems.
Sylvain is maintainer of a lot of packages. I selected three of them,
headache, mtink and unison, for my review. I found some small glitches,
but no major problems, and the glitches are pending for fixing, or are
already fixed now.
4. Account information
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Preferred account name: gildor
Address to forward E-Mails to: sylvain@le-gall.net
5. Attachments
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GPG Key with ID 0xFB0DFE9B
Recommendation of the advocate and logs of the discussions with applicant.
[only in the version for DAM/FD]
Cheers,
Andi
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http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/
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