Report for new developer applicant Mark Hymers <mark.hymers@ncl.ac.uk>:
1. Identification & Background
------------------------------
Check with Keyid 0xD0EC0723.
ID Check passed, Key signed by quite many existing DDs, including
myself. Mark participated in the Debconf5 keysigning event.
Output from keycheck.sh 0xD0EC0723
Syncing Debian Keyrings with rsync from keyring.debian.org
Receiving and checking key
pub 1024D/D0EC0723 2004-04-29
Key fingerprint = A982 F04E ABCD 834C AED9 DFFD 3485 BA08 D0EC 0723
uid Mark Hymers (Debian key) <mark.hymers@ncl.ac.uk>
sig! 149CDDB2 2005-07-21 Jacobo Tarrio <jtarrio@trasno.net>
sig! 14D4060B 2005-07-16 Sven Mueller <debian@incase.de>
sig! 1880283C 2005-07-20 Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>
sig! 1CF2D62A 2005-07-19 Micah Anderson <micah@debian.org>
sig! 1E880A84 2005-07-18 Frans Pop (Debian) <elendil@planet.nl>
sig! 258D8781 2005-07-16 Michael Bramer <michael@debsupport.de>
sig! 29499F61 2005-07-17 Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>
sig!3 29F19BD1 2004-10-18 Michael Meskes <michael@fam-meskes.de>
sig! 307D56ED 2005-07-21 Noèl Köthe <noel@debian.org>
sig! 330C4A75 2005-07-19 Martin F. Krafft <mail@martin-krafft.net>
sig! 39A8CCE2 2005-07-19 Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <eugen@debian.org>
sig! 4743206C 2005-07-15 Joachim Breitner <mail@joachim-breitner.de>
sig! 52B7487E 2005-07-15 Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse@debian.org>
sig! 534584E8 2005-07-17 Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <ajk@debian.org>
sig! 551BE447 2005-07-19 Torsten Landschoff <torsten@debian.org>
sig!3 5B430367 2004-10-08 Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>
sig! 5D64F870 2005-07-15 Martin Zobel-Helas <zobel@debian.org>
sig!3 5E0577F2 2005-07-18 Martin Pitt <martin@piware.de>
sig! 5F6D8015 2005-07-15 Kalle Kivimaa <killer@killeri.net>
sig! 67209BDE 2005-07-22 Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@debian.org>
sig! 72D03CB1 2005-07-22 Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org>
sig! 78446F26 2005-07-16 Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>
sig! 808D0FD0 2005-07-19 Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>
sig! 882A6C4B 2005-07-18 Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>
sig!3 88C7C1F7 2005-07-16 Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
sig!3 88C7C1F7 2005-02-27 Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
sig! 8B8D7663 2005-07-16 Andreas Metzler (private key) <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>
sig!3 8F068012 2005-07-16 Andrew McMillan (Andrew @ Work) <andrew@catalyst.net.nz>
sig! 90788E11 2005-07-22 Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <jsogo@debian.org>
sig!2 94C09C7F 2005-07-19 Peter Palfrader
sig! 98FAA0AD 2005-07-15 Roger So <rogerso@debian.org>
sig!2 9FE8D504 2005-07-21 Tomas Fasth <tomfa@debian.org>
sig! C0143D2D 2005-07-20 Christian Perrier <bubulle@kheops.homeunix.org>
sig! C671257D 2005-07-22 David Moreno Garza (1984-08-08) <damog@damog.net>
sig!3 D0EC0723 2005-03-12 Mark Hymers (Debian key) <mark.hymers@ncl.ac.uk>
sig!3 D0EC0723 2004-04-29 Mark Hymers (Debian key) <mark.hymers@ncl.ac.uk>
sig!3 DA602822 2004-08-30 Andrew Stribblehill <ads@debian.org>
sig! DA6AE621 2005-07-20 Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
sig! E02FEF11 2005-07-19 Robert Jördens <jordens@debian.org>
sig! EA2D2C41 2005-07-18 Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
sig! F0D7D44A 2005-07-17 Jimmy Kaplowitz <jimmy@kaplowitz.org>
sig! F1BCDB73 2005-07-20 Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
sig! F2833C93 2005-07-21 Eric Evans <eevans@debian.org>
sig! 3CC88C09 2005-07-23 Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.org>
sig! 68AC5746 2005-07-24 Robert Alan Larson (Blars) <blarson@blars.org>
sig! 2FA3BC2D 2005-07-24 Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
sig! 964199E2 2005-07-26 Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe@paniq.net>
sig! EFAA3331 2005-07-26 Dennis Stampfer <seppy@debian.org>
sig! E19F188E 2005-07-26 Troy Heber <troy.heber@hp.com>
sig! 1BF8DE0F 2005-07-27 Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>
sig! 0813569F 2005-07-29 Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>
sig! 7244970B 2005-07-29 Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
sig! 3FCC2A90 2005-07-31 Amaya Rodrigo Sastre <amaya@debian.org>
sig! B3C281F4 2005-08-01 Alain Schroeder <alain@parkautomat.net>
sig! DD9B9910 2005-08-02 Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
sig! 00D8CD16 2005-08-03 Alexander Schmehl (university) <schmehl@cs.uni-frankfurt.de>
sig! 99E81DA0 2005-08-03 Lior Kaplan <kaplanlior@gmail.com>
sig! DDC0B70D 2005-08-05 Kari Pahula <kaol@iki.fi>
sig! 607559E6 2005-08-07 Benjamin Hill (Mako) <mako@atdot.cc>
sig! EAF19B60 2005-08-08 Emanuele Rocca <ema@linux.it>
sig! F2CF01A8 2005-08-14 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
sig! DF81EE83 2005-08-16 Rob Bradford (robster) <robster@debian.org>
sig! C09FD35A 2005-08-23 Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
sig! 797EBFAB 2005-08-26 Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.com>
sig! 8807529B 2005-08-27 Guido Trotter <ultrotter@quaqua.net>
sig! DED45912 2005-08-28 Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>
sig! DC47CA16 2005-08-28 David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
sig! 12066207 2005-09-04 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
sig! 25BFB848 2005-09-10 Roger Leigh <rleigh@fsfe.org>
sig! 8E635A5E 2005-09-10 Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
sig! EA59038E 2005-11-29 Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>
sig! 864826C3 2006-01-08 GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.org>
sig! 7E7B8AC9 2006-03-25 Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>
sig! 19A42D19 2006-05-05 dann frazier <dannf@fc.hp.com>
sig! 3F3E6426 2006-05-12 Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
sig! 4BA401C3 2006-05-20 Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>
sig! D54F0847 2006-05-20 Mark Shuttleworth <mark@ubuntu.com>
sig! 8BB527AF 2006-05-31 Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>
sig!2 2ECF984B 2005-08-17 Alexei Nikolov (passport id) <alnikolov@narod.ru>
sig!2 5C6153AD 2005-09-03 Mark Brown <broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
sig!3 9B7C328D 2005-08-04 Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
sig!3 1CDB0FE3 2005-08-27 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
sig! 0464E7E5 2005-08-02 Philip Hands (old PGP key) <phil@hands.com>
sig! FC05DA69 2005-08-15 Anand Kumria <akumria@acm.org>
uid Mark Hymers <mark.hymers@ynic.york.ac.uk>
sig! 149CDDB2 2005-07-21 Jacobo Tarrio <jtarrio@trasno.net>
sig! 14D4060B 2005-07-16 Sven Mueller <debian@incase.de>
sig! 1880283C 2005-07-20 Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>
sig! 1CF2D62A 2005-07-19 Micah Anderson <micah@debian.org>
sig! 1E880A84 2005-07-18 Frans Pop (Debian) <elendil@planet.nl>
sig! 258D8781 2005-07-16 Michael Bramer <michael@debsupport.de>
sig! 29499F61 2005-07-17 Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>
sig! 330C4A75 2005-07-19 Martin F. Krafft <mail@martin-krafft.net>
sig! 39A8CCE2 2005-07-19 Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <eugen@debian.org>
sig! 4743206C 2005-07-15 Joachim Breitner <mail@joachim-breitner.de>
sig! 52B7487E 2005-07-15 Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse@debian.org>
sig! 534584E8 2005-07-17 Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <ajk@debian.org>
sig! 551BE447 2005-07-19 Torsten Landschoff <torsten@debian.org>
sig! 5D64F870 2005-07-15 Martin Zobel-Helas <zobel@debian.org>
sig!3 5E0577F2 2005-07-18 Martin Pitt <martin@piware.de>
sig! 5F6D8015 2005-07-15 Kalle Kivimaa <killer@killeri.net>
sig! 67209BDE 2005-07-22 Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@debian.org>
sig! 72D03CB1 2005-07-22 Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org>
sig! 78446F26 2005-07-16 Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>
sig! 808D0FD0 2005-07-19 Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>
sig! 882A6C4B 2005-07-18 Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>
sig! 8B8D7663 2005-07-16 Andreas Metzler (private key) <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>
sig!3 8F068012 2005-07-16 Andrew McMillan (Andrew @ Work) <andrew@catalyst.net.nz>
sig! 90788E11 2005-07-22 Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <jsogo@debian.org>
sig!2 94C09C7F 2005-07-19 Peter Palfrader
sig! 98FAA0AD 2005-07-15 Roger So <rogerso@debian.org>
sig!2 9FE8D504 2005-07-21 Tomas Fasth <tomfa@debian.org>
sig! C0143D2D 2005-07-20 Christian Perrier <bubulle@kheops.homeunix.org>
sig!3 D0EC0723 2005-03-12 Mark Hymers (Debian key) <mark.hymers@ncl.ac.uk>
sig! E02FEF11 2005-07-19 Robert Jördens <jordens@debian.org>
sig! EA2D2C41 2005-07-18 Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
sig! F0D7D44A 2005-07-17 Jimmy Kaplowitz <jimmy@kaplowitz.org>
sig! F1BCDB73 2005-07-20 Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
sig! F2833C93 2005-07-21 Eric Evans <eevans@debian.org>
sig! 3CC88C09 2005-07-23 Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.org>
sig! 68AC5746 2005-07-24 Robert Alan Larson (Blars) <blarson@blars.org>
sig! 2FA3BC2D 2005-07-24 Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
sig! 964199E2 2005-07-26 Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe@paniq.net>
sig! EFAA3331 2005-07-26 Dennis Stampfer <seppy@debian.org>
sig! E19F188E 2005-07-26 Troy Heber <troy.heber@hp.com>
sig! 1BF8DE0F 2005-07-27 Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>
sig! 0813569F 2005-07-29 Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>
sig! 7244970B 2005-07-29 Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
sig! 3FCC2A90 2005-07-31 Amaya Rodrigo Sastre <amaya@debian.org>
sig! B3C281F4 2005-08-01 Alain Schroeder <alain@parkautomat.net>
sig! 00D8CD16 2005-08-03 Alexander Schmehl (university) <schmehl@cs.uni-frankfurt.de>
sig! DDC0B70D 2005-08-05 Kari Pahula <kaol@iki.fi>
sig! 607559E6 2005-08-07 Benjamin Hill (Mako) <mako@atdot.cc>
sig! EAF19B60 2005-08-08 Emanuele Rocca <ema@linux.it>
sig! F2CF01A8 2005-08-14 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
sig! DF81EE83 2005-08-16 Rob Bradford (robster) <robster@debian.org>
sig! C09FD35A 2005-08-23 Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
sig! 797EBFAB 2005-08-26 Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.com>
sig! 12066207 2005-09-04 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
sig! 25BFB848 2005-09-10 Roger Leigh <rleigh@fsfe.org>
sig! 8E635A5E 2005-09-10 Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
sig! EA59038E 2005-11-29 Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>
sig! 864826C3 2006-01-08 GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.org>
sig- 864826C3 2006-01-08 GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.org>
sig! 7E7B8AC9 2006-03-25 Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>
sig! 19A42D19 2006-05-05 dann frazier <dannf@fc.hp.com>
sig! 3F3E6426 2006-05-12 Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
sig! 4BA401C3 2006-05-20 Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>
sig! D54F0847 2006-05-20 Mark Shuttleworth <mark@ubuntu.com>
sig! 8BB527AF 2006-05-31 Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>
sig!2 2ECF984B 2005-08-17 Alexei Nikolov (passport id) <alnikolov@narod.ru>
sig!2 5C6153AD 2005-09-03 Mark Brown <broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
sig!2 5B430367 2006-01-13 Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>
sig!3 9B7C328D 2005-08-04 Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
sig! FC05DA69 2005-08-15 Anand Kumria <akumria@acm.org>
uid Mark Hymers <mark@hymers.org.uk>
sig- 7E7B8AC9 2006-03-25 Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>
sig! 3F3E6426 2006-05-12 Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
sig! 4BA401C3 2006-05-20 Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>
sig! EA59038E 2006-05-20 Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>
sig! D54F0847 2006-05-20 Mark Shuttleworth <mark@ubuntu.com>
sig- 8BB527AF 2006-05-31 Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>
sig! 8BB527AF 2006-05-31 Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>
sig!3 D0EC0723 2006-05-01 Mark Hymers (Debian key) <mark.hymers@ncl.ac.uk>
sub 1024g/4D95F70C 2004-04-29
sig! D0EC0723 2004-04-29 Mark Hymers (Debian key) <mark.hymers@ncl.ac.uk>
Let's test if its a version 4 or greater key
Key is ok
Check for key expire stuff
Key has no expiration date set, nothing to check.
Applicant writes (in July 2005):
8<--------------------------------------------------------------------
I originally started using GNU/Linux with a boxed set of RedHat 5.2 in
order to create a firewall/NAT router when I lived at home with my
parents and had dial-up connectivity. Shortly after going to University
to study medicine, I started helping with the LinuxFromScratch project
(http://www.linuxfromscratch.org) which I got involved with in order
to improve my knowledge of how the various components of GNU/Linux
systems fitted together. After helping out with editing the LFS book
for a while, I started the Beyond LinuxFromScratch project (as can be
seen in my original forward to the document
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/preface/preface.html)
which was designed to help people move forward from the base +
development system of LFS and improve their knowledge of what packages
were available. I stood down from editing BLFS for three principle
reasons. First, I had started using Debian on most of my machines and
so was spending less time testing the *LFS instructions. Second, I was
unable to devote that much time to the task at that moment in time due
to excessive amounts of University work and third, I was getting to the
point where 'just' writing documentation was becoming routine and I
wanted to start dealing with code a lot more.
My introduction to the ideals of Free Software came about towards the
beginning of my period working on LFS when I first read the GNU
manifesto and started to read and compare the various major licenses
(the GNU GPL and LGPL, the modified and original BSD licenses) and
started to understand the differences between free software, open source
and the concept of 'copyleft'. During the time I was editing LFS,
somebody pointed me at the DFSG as another standard of 'freeness'.
As I mentioned above, I started using Debian whilst still editing the
LFS book. I liked the package management system and the ease with which
I could have systems which mixed a stable base with a more up-to-date set
of other packages. At the time I was using mutt as a news reader and
found that creating my own local patched mutt-nntp package by following
the new maintainer guide and developers reference was useful, rather
than just compiling and installing to /usr/local as I retained the
integration the mutt package has with the system. At the current time,
I maintain debian systems at my parents house, several development boxes
at home and two of our main lab servers use Debian, with the rest
scheduled to move sometime before the end of the year. I also admin a
Mac OS X cluster and desktops which will hopefully move to Debian once
we have evaluated alternatives for the various scientific software which
is needed. This will involve a new LGPL/GPL'd application for medical
imaging data analysis which is my main work task starting from the end of
August.
At the present time I maintain kst and ifrit in Debian and am in the
process of packaging dssi. kst is a scientific data plotter for KDE
which has plugin and real-time support for various instruments. I first
came across it when preparing some data plots at work and realised that
it wasn't in Debian. ifrit is another plotting package but is used for
3d rendering of volumes, surfaces and particles. ifrit is based on VTK
and Qt and has been an interesting lesson in dealing with upstream (to
do with licensing issues during my initial pre-packaging audit; now all
dealt with) and other Debian developers; i.e. the vtk Debian maintainer
(see bug #271779) and the buildd maintainers (see bug #273375).
dssi (ITP: #280165) is slightly more complicated and I have been
working with the rosegarden4 maintainer (who wishes to build-dep on it)
in order to make sure that the packages can exist in a sane way when the
API changes (for instance when version 1.0 is released instead of the
current 0.9). In fact the major delay at the moment for dssi packages
is waiting for feedback from package maintainers who will depend on
dssi. Test packages have been available at mentors.debian.net for a
while and I'm about to update them with regard to libjack dependencies
in sid and, given that there are no objections to the package structure,
upload them. I want to be careful with this package as causing problems
could well cause other packages to break.
I intend my future involvement in Debian to be in a couple of major
areas. First, I met Andreas Tille at Debconf5 and discussed the
Debian-Med project with him. Part of Debian-Med is to do with medical
imaging (MRI, fMRI, MEG, EEG etc) which happens to be my main research
interest (http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-med/imaging)
The first package I'm looking at is the Amide DiCOM viewer
(http://amide.sourceforge.net/) which I am currently performing a
license audit on. Another interest of mine in Debian is the multiarch
proposal as I have an amd64 box at home and a large number of ppc64
boxes at work. I hope to contribute to the discussion and the
implementation of multiarch having talked to Tollef about it at both
Fosdem and Debconf this year. I started creating and incorporating
some multiarch patches for base and required packages
(http://62.3.98.42/~mark/debian/multiarch_patches/) but these got out
of date as I was managing them manually. I now intend to start using
tla or baz to manage these changes and am currently working my way
through the tla tutorial so that I fully understand revision control.
8<--------------------------------------------------------------------
From Google, I can see that Mark has been active in Linux from Scratch.
He has also participated on many technical mailing lists, asking and
answering questions and reporting bugs in what I consider good and
considerate style.
2. Philosophy and Procedures
-----------------------------
Mark Hymers has a good understanding of Debians Philosophy and
Procedures. He responded to all my Questions about Social Contract,
DFSG, BTS etc. with what I can only describe as excellent answers,
and clearly demonstrated his interest and understanding of the issues.
3. Tasks and Skills
-------------------
Mark Hymers maintains the following packages in Debian:
ifrit - a powerful tool for visualizing 3-dimensional data sets
kst - a KDE application used for displaying scientific data
zope-ldapmultiplugins - LDAP plugin for Zope/Plone
zope-ldapuserfolder - LDAP user and group source for Zope/Plone
and comaintains the following Debian package:
freeradius - a high-performance and highly configurable RADIUS server
He has been sponsored by Wesley Landaker and Stephen Gran.
I reviewed the kst and ifrit packages in April, and found them to be in good
shape.
He also answered my other Questions regarding T&S in an
outstanding manner.
4. Recommendation
-----------------
I strongly recommend to accept him as a Debian Developer.
Account: mhy
Forward-Email: mark.hymers@ncl.ac.uk
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