Report for new developper applicant Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net>
1. Identification & Background
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Applicant writes:
I am 26, I live in Perth, Western Australia. I've a BSc, majored in
Biotechnology and Environmental Science. At university I was
interested in genetics/bioinformatics and ecology and geographic
information systems.
[…]
My contributions to debian so far have been reporting bugs, sending
patches, packaging, adopting orphaned packages, helping a little bit
on #debian and less on debian-user. I've also done a bit of qa work
and some helping people on debian-mentors with packaging issues (and
contributed to the FAQ). I've contacted some people who had made
packages but didn't try to get them into debian in order to
encourage them to do so. I also wrote a patch for debtags support on
packages.d.o that jvw applied to his svn repo. I'm part of the
debian-gis, python-modules, pkg-synfig and pkg-fonts co-maintenance
teams. I am/was also part of the aborted pkg-xchat team.
My primary areas of interest are NM/sponsoring, QA and to a lesser
extent developer and other infrastructure. I plan to work on QA, NM
and sponsoring. I also plan to establish a debian-flash group at
some point. As far as packaging goes, that will generally be i18n,
gis, indymedia and flash related, although I do have a long list of
URLs of upstream projects I think should be in debian. Other than
that, I'll see where debian takes me and where it intersects with
real life.
More links of my contributions and plans can be found on my wiki
page: http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
Advocate Says:
I have worked with Paul Wise in other projects inside as well as
outside of Debian for some time now and as a result, I believe his
technical skills, his committment to Debian and to Free Software and
his excellent ability to work with others make him somebody I,
without hesitation, advocate to become a Debian developer. Paul has
several packages in the archive that I have sponsored, I can attest
that he really knows how to package well. He is active in submitting
useful bugs, often including patches. Even though he is a NM
himself, he has patiently and selflessly helped people on
debian-mentors with packaging and has contributed to the FAQ. When
he becomes a developer he will undoubtedly continue his mentor work
in sponsoring and helping new developers. He has done QA work, and I
believe that he will get involved doing more so in the future. Paul
is also interested in building a debian-flash related community and
has a handful of really good things that Debian needs that he is
working on packaging. Having Paul Wise as a Debian developer would
be a great benefit to the project, and I am looking forward to
working with him more in the future.
2. Philosophy and Procedures
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Paul has a good understanding of Debians Philosophy and
Procedures. He answered all my Questions about Social Contract,
DFSG, BTS etc. in a good way.
3. Tasks and Skills
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Paul is Maintainer of numerous packages [1], that are all in a very
good shape, few opened bugs, no bug roting in the BTS. He has also 4
packages in stable: fonttools that he recently adopted, mancala,
mapserver and nsis.
He also answered my other Questions regarding T&S without problems.
[1] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=Paul+Wise
4. Recommendation
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I recommend to accept him as a Debian Developer.
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