Report for new developer applicant Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@connexer.com>:
1. Identification & Background
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Key fingerprint = 5F7F F3A8 09F5 ED55 3350 5031 8EA3 B90C B2B9 7BB1
uid Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@familiasanchez.net>
sig! A3F9E30E 2005-10-10 Michael C. Schultheiss <schultmc@debian.org>
sig! 2B46A27C 2006-05-21 Branden Robinson <branden@deadbeast.net>
sig!3 B2B97BB1 2005-10-01 Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@familiasanchez.net>
uid Roberto C. Sanchez <sanchezr@ieee.org>
sig! A3F9E30E 2005-10-10 Michael C. Schultheiss <schultmc@debian.org>
sig! 2B46A27C 2006-05-21 Branden Robinson <branden@deadbeast.net>
sig!3 B2B97BB1 2005-10-01 Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@familiasanchez.net>
sub 1024D/42B5A9F6 2006-07-15 [expires: 2007-07-15]
sig! B2B97BB1 2006-07-15 Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@familiasanchez.net>
sub 1024D/A7C89464 2006-07-15 [expires: 2007-07-15]
sig! B2B97BB1 2006-07-15 Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@familiasanchez.net>
sub 2048g/D27DA3A2 2005-10-01
sig! B2B97BB1 2005-10-01 Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@familiasanchez.net>
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Applicant writes:
In the fall of 2002, I took a software engineering class and my team project
involved writing code to run on the university's Linux cluster. I
installed on
my laptop Red Hat 8.0, which had just been released, and began exploring with
Linux. A friend of mine, who worked in the computer science department
technical support, convinced me to switch to Woody, which had also recently
been released. He walked me through the installation and introduced me to
the
Debian way of doing things. I was struck by how much more well considered
the
Debian way of doing things was compared to the Red Hat way and the way
of other
distros I have since examined.
After that first machine, I eventually converted my other older
computer at home
from Windows 98 to Debian Woody and enlisted it as a web/mail/file server and
router/firewall. I eventually stopped using Windows on my laptop and the two
new computers I have acquired since then have run Debian exclusively.
I personally benefit a great deal from Debian in that I get a well tested and
well put together operating system. It is also free, which is truly
wonderful.
I would like to do something to help contribute to it. I would like to
help by
packaging useful applications and also by helping in the QA process. I
believe
that the best way to ensure the place of free software is to make certain
that
it is of superior functionailty and quailty than its proprietary
counterparts. To do this, it takes people willing to hepl improve the
software, which I would
like to do.
I have also written two small HOWTO documents, on customizing Debian packages
and seting up a Debian package repository. Both have been well received and
are on my website.
I also intend to become an independent consultant specializing in Linux
deployments sometime in the future. Becoming a Debian developer will
certainly
help me understand much more completely what makes a software
distribution work
together.
I earned my BS in Computer Engineering in 2004. My honors thesis was titled,
"Improving Computational Efficiency in Context-Based Reasoning
Simulations." I
am currently working on my MS in Computer Engineering and doing research in
large scale distributed simulations.
I also did some (small work) whith Roberto and sponsoring his packages and in
the pkg-nx team.
2. Philosophy and Procedures
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Roberto 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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Roberto is Maintainer of several packages in Debian, for example
ddccontrol, releaseforge and toshutils moste of them sponsored by me
during his NM process.
He also answered my other Questions regarding T&S without problems.
4. Recommendation
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I recommend to accept him as a Debian Developer.
Account: roberto
Forward-Email: roberto@familiasanchez.net
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