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
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Check with Keyid 0x0AFC7476:
ID Check passed, Key signed by two DD, Sam Hartman and Ben Pfaff.
Output from keycheck.sh 0x0AFC7476
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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:
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| 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
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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
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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
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I recommend to accept him as a Debian Developer.
Account: rra
Forward-Email: rra@stanford.edu
Marc
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