Report for new developer applicant Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>: This application report is based on a test for task-based NM checks. I asked Russ only a few questions, but he needed to show his skills by doing some more practical things like doing bug triage, preparing QA uploads and managing a library transition. 1. Identification & Background ------------------------------ Check with Keyid 0x0AFC7476: ID Check passed, Key signed by two DD, Sam Hartman and Ben Pfaff. Output from keycheck.sh 0x0AFC7476 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ pub 1024D/0AFC7476 1999-02-10 Key fingerprint = 18CF B0C8 368A 36A8 86F5 66A2 F985 E340 0AFC 7476 uid Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> sig!3 0AFC7476 1999-02-10 Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> sig!3 3C86260F 2005-06-10 Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> sig!2 797E641D 2004-07-27 Ben Pfaff <blp@stanford.edu> [...] 11 signatures not checked due to missing keys Let's test if its a version 4 or greater key Key is ok Applicant writes: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | I am a senior systems administrator and technical lead for Unix | infrastructure services at Stanford University, from which I also have | master's and bachelor's degrees on computer science. My day to day | responsibilities include running the campus Kerberos authentication | servers, web authentication servers, and Usenet news servers and assisting | with, overseeing, or otherwise fiddling with the campus e-mail, AFS, and | web servers among others, as well as doing technical strategic planning, | projects, and tools development. [...] | I currently maintain eleven packages for Debian and co-maintain four more | with Sam Hartman. My initial goals for my involvement in the Debian | project are to contribute back to Debian those packages that we needed at | Stanford but were not already in the archive (provided that they're | generally useful) and to help improve the AFS- and Kerberos-related | packages in Debian. I am also very interested in (and very impressed by) | the core Debian packaging infrastructure and would like to help improve | it, particularly in the areas of package checking (lintian, linda) and the | qa.debian.org tools. I've submitted one additional check to lintian and | some improvements to debarchiver so far and hope to find time to do | considerably more. Given my experience with porting random Unix software, | I'm also planning on helping with orphaned packages and general bug | squashing. 2. Philosophy and Procedures ----------------------------- Russ has a very good understanding of Debians Philosophy and Procedures. He answered all my Questions about the Social Contract, the DFSG and Debian's standard procedures in a good way. He also helped to sort the a2ps bug reports and prepared a QA upload for mmm-mode. 3. Tasks and Skills ------------------- Russ is (Co-)Maintainer of the Kerberos 5 packages and helpers and also maintains some Perl libraries. He answered my questions regarding his skills without problems and managed and still cleans up the C++ transition for mpich. 4. Recommendation ----------------- I recommend to accept him as a Debian Developer. Account: rra Forward-Email: rra@stanford.edu Marc -- BOFH #198: Post-it Note Sludge leaked into the monitor.
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