Report for new developer applicant Kevin Glynn <kevin.glynn@gmail.com>
1. Identification & Background
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Key fingerprint = 917A 0D1F 6785 C087 2A13 4C13 10FA AB98 0EA8 4A2B
uid Kevin Glynn <glynn@info.ucl.ac.be>
sig!3 6783ED5E 2004-08-19 Frederic Peters <fpeters@entrouvert.com>
sig!3 0EA84A2B 2004-04-29 Kevin Glynn <glynn@info.ucl.ac.be>
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sig! 0EA84A2B 2004-04-29 Kevin Glynn <glynn@info.ucl.ac.be>
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Applicant writes:
I have been running Debian GNU/Linux unstable since the end of 1997
on a variety of servers, workstations, and laptops. Since that
time I have been working in research groups at the University of
Melbourne (static analysis of Haskell programs) and the Université
catholique de Louvain (development of Oz, peer to peer networking
library for Mozart/Oz). In this time Debian has been invaluable to
me, providing up to date and stable versions of nearly all the
software I rely on for my research.
At UCL I was / am one of the upstream developers of the Mozart/Oz
system. When the previous maintainer, Marco Kuhlmann, put the
Debian Mozart packages up for adoption in 2004 I took them over,
with the help and encouragement of Pierre Machard, my sponsor.
So, why do I want to be a DD:
I want to pay back to Debian for the great help it has given me
in both my personal and professional life.
I am really interested in how the Debian project has succeeded
socially, technically, and politically. I want to be a part of
it to help make sure it continues to succeed at all three levels.
I want to improve Debian's support for the areas I am interested
in (advanced programming languages, advanced networking /
distribution models)
Advocate Says:
In July 2004, I was doing QA work and I discovered that mozart package
was in bad shape. I saw that upstream provided a Debian package. At that
time, I sent an email to Kevin (17 July 2004)[1] in order to know
whether he was interested in maintaining this package. Since 2004, I am
Kevin's sponsor. Kevin did a regular work on mozart's packaging and had
learnt how to work in our project.
Kevin is interested in becoming a Debian maintainer[2]. He plans to
maintain mozart and possibly other packages.
He did regular work on mozart since July 2004. He reply quickly to bug
repports and emails. Currently, the major issue of mozart is to add
support for amd64. Kevin is already working on the next release.
Each time I reviewed Kevin packages, I did never found any major issue.
I strongly believe that Kevin has the required background to become a
Debian Developer.
[1]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2004/07/msg00082.html
[2]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2004/07/msg00083.html
2. Philosophy and Procedures
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Kevin 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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Kevin is Maintainer of mozart[1], that is in a very good shape.
All being in stable.
He also answered my other Questions regarding T&S without problems.
[1] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=glynn@info.ucl.ac.be
4. Recommendation
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I recommend strongly to accept him as a Debian Developer.
Account: keving
Forward-Email: kevin.glynn@gmail.com
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