Report for new developer applicant Sylvain le Gall: 0. Recommendation ----------------- 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 ------------------------------ 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: --8<-------------------------------------------------------->8--- 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 ). --8<-------------------------------------------------------->8--- 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 ---------------------------- This check was done by Rene, and Sylvain passed it without real problems. 3. Tasks and Skills ------------------- 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 ---------------------- Preferred account name: gildor Address to forward E-Mails to: sylvain@le-gall.net 5. Attachments -------------- 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 -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C
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