Hello,
here comes the report for new developer applicant
Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>:
1. Identification & Background
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Check with Keyid 0xEA7CF5AD:
ID Check passed, Key signed from 97 existing DD.
Output from keycheck.sh 0xEA7CF5AD
Syncing Debian Keyrings with rsync from keyring.debian.org
Receiving and checking key
pub 1024D/EA7CF5AD 2005-04-09
Key fingerprint = 96F7 A8CC A87F 0EB8 3497 01B2 5A0A 399A EA7C F5AD
uid Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
sig! 52B7487E 2005-07-15 Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse@debian.org>
sig! 4743206C 2005-07-15 Joachim Breitner <mail@joachim-breitner.de>
sig! F1BCDB73 2005-07-15 Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
sig! 98FAA0AD 2005-07-15 Roger So <rogerso@debian.org>
sig! 5F6D8015 2005-07-15 Kalle Kivimaa <killer@killeri.net>
sig! 5D64F870 2005-07-15 Martin Zobel-Helas <zobel@debian.org>
sig! 258D8781 2005-07-16 Michael Bramer <michael@debsupport.de>
sig! 8B8D7663 2005-07-16 Andreas Metzler (private key) <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>
sig! 14D4060B 2005-07-16 Sven Mueller <debian@incase.de>
sig! 534584E8 2005-07-17 Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <ajk@debian.org>
sig! 29499F61 2005-07-17 Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>
sig! F0D7D44A 2005-07-17 Jimmy Kaplowitz <jimmy@kaplowitz.org>
sig! E06B3F97 2005-07-18 Mattias Nordstrom <nordstrom@realnode.com>
sig! 1E880A84 2005-07-18 Frans Pop (Debian) <elendil@planet.nl>
sig! 882A6C4B 2005-07-18 Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>
sig! EA2D2C41 2005-07-18 Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
sig! 2EDFE670 2005-07-19 Jarno Elonen <elonen@debian.org>
sig! 551BE447 2005-07-19 Torsten Landschoff <torsten@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! 808D0FD0 2005-07-19 Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>
sig! 1CF2D62A 2005-07-19 Micah Anderson <micah@debian.org>
sig! E02FEF11 2005-07-19 Robert Jördens <jordens@debian.org>
sig! C0143D2D 2005-07-20 Christian Perrier <bubulle@kheops.homeunix.org>
sig! 1880283C 2005-07-20 Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>
sig! F1BCDB73 2005-07-20 Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
sig! 248AEB73 2005-07-20 Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>
sig! DA6AE621 2005-07-20 Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
sig! 45F3FBF9 2005-07-21 John Lightsey <lightsey@debian.org>
sig! 307D56ED 2005-07-21 Noèl Köthe <noel@debian.org>
sig! F2833C93 2005-07-21 Eric Evans <eevans@debian.org>
sig! 72D03CB1 2005-07-22 Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org>
sig! 99E81DA0 2005-07-22 Lior Kaplan <kaplanlior@gmail.com>
sig! 149CDDB2 2005-07-22 Jacobo Tarrio <jtarrio@trasno.net>
sig! 67209BDE 2005-07-22 Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@debian.org>
sig! 90788E11 2005-07-22 Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <jsogo@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! 964199E2 2005-07-26 Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe@paniq.net>
sig! E19F188E 2005-07-26 Troy Heber <troy.heber@hp.com>
sig! EFAA3331 2005-07-26 Dennis Stampfer <seppy@debian.org>
sig! 1BF8DE0F 2005-07-29 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! D0EC0723 2005-07-31 Mark Hymers <mhy@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 Mako Hill <mako@ubuntu.com>
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! DC47CA16 2005-08-28 David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
sig! 12066207 2005-09-04 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
sig! AC583520 2005-09-07 Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
sig! 8E635A5E 2005-09-10 Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
sig! F5D65169 2006-02-03 Julien BLACHE <jblache@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! 4B729625 2006-05-20 Peter Van Eynde <pvaneynd@debian.org>
sig! 6B79D401 2006-05-20 Giunchedi Filippo <filippo@esaurito.net>
sig! 0ED704EA 2006-05-20 Mohammed Adnène Trojette (adn) <adn@arabeyes.org>
sig! 4BA401C3 2006-05-20 Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>
sig! C671257D 2006-05-20 David Moreno Garza <damog@ciencias.unam.mx>
sig! 6FECCDE0 2006-05-20 Santiago Ruano Rincón <santiago@unicauca.edu.co>
sig! EA59038E 2006-05-20 Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>
sig! D54F0847 2006-05-20 Mark Shuttleworth <mark@ubuntu.com>
sig! 6E8169D2 2006-05-21 Raphael Hertzog <raphael@ouaza.com>
sig! 90E5CA46 2006-05-22 Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) <faw@debian.org>
sig! B345BDD3 2006-05-22 Neil McGovern <maulkin@halon.org.uk>
sig! 71473F66 2006-05-22 Todd Troxell <ttroxell@debian.org>
sig! 29982E5A 2006-05-24 Steve Langasek <vorlon@dodds.net>
sig! 16D970C6 2006-05-28 Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org>
sig! 8BB527AF 2006-05-31 Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>
sig! 58510B5A 2006-06-01 Christoph Berg <cb@df7cb.de>
sig! E8C43461 2006-06-03 Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@ekaia.org>
sig! CAEAAF03 2006-06-19 Riku Voipio <Riku.Voipio@iki.fi>
sig! 16BD77C6 2006-09-09 Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@debian.at>
sig!2 94C09C7F 2005-07-19 Peter Palfrader
sig!2 9FE8D504 2005-07-21 Tomas Fasth <tomfa@debian.org>
sig!2 2ECF984B 2005-08-18 Alexei Nikolov (passport id) <alnikolov@narod.ru>
sig!2 5C6153AD 2005-09-03 Mark Brown <broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
sig!2 5706A4B4 2006-05-21 Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@hogyros.de>
sig!3 8F068012 2005-07-16 Andrew McMillan (Andrew @ Work) <andrew@catalyst.net.nz>
sig!3 88C7C1F7 2005-07-16 Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
sig!3 5E0577F2 2005-07-19 Martin Pitt <martin@piware.de>
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!3 EA7CF5AD 2005-04-09 Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
sig! FC05DA69 2005-08-15 Anand Kumria <akumria@acm.org>
sig! 78446F26 2005-07-16 Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>
sig! 25BCD5BF 2006-11-26 Pascal Hakim <pasc@jhk.net.au>
sig! 4E2ECA5A 2006-12-26 Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org>
sig! AC5F700C 2007-05-05 Julien Cristau <julien.cristau@ens-lyon.org>
sig! 096C4DD3 2007-06-13 Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
sub 2048g/FACAA7C7 2005-04-09
sig! EA7CF5AD 2005-04-09 Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
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:
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I started working on GNU/Linux with some friends at the university (2000)
on an internal project to control lights in a night club. The code was
GPL...but not really distributed.
Since then my preferred OS is Debian.
After university, I enjoyed reading on IT security, and worked on tiger
(sending patches to the BTS; having nice contacts with Javier; and mostly
working on the upstream project). I also played with rootkit (not writting
them, but detecting them) and sent patches to chkrootkit and KSTAT (but I
did not enjoyed the way they handle patches). At that time I learned a lot
about the kernel internal.
I'm currently working mostly on internationalization, with the nice Debian
French Translation Team. I started with the translation of manpages and
reviewing the files sent to the mailing list. After noticing that the
French translations of the shadow's man pages were completely outdated. I
worked on their translation and was informed about po4a. I got involved
with Martin Quinson and Denis Barbier in the development of po4a and
used the shadow man pages to improve its groff module. I later used
manpages of native packages to improve po4a and advertise its usage for
the translation of manpages. I'm also (ir)regularly running po4a on the
Debian archive to report issues on the manpages.
This is the way I get involved in the packaging of shadow.
Christian Perrier proposed me to form a small team to take over the
maintenance of shadow (IIRC, its previous maintainer (Sam Hartman) had no
time to maintain it anymore).
The first task was to triage the bug reports (It was during the Sarge
freeze; there were something like 200 bugs) and contact the new upstream
(there had been a long time without upstream, which explain all
distributions were using 4.0.3 with different patches). After the Sarge
freeze (or maybe during the freeze) I worked on splitting the large diff
into smaller parts that we could send upstream, and reworked the build
system (using dpatch and then quilt). We had no major issue while working
on shadow. We just reverted one patch, and reapplied it with a transition
(#276419). The current shadow package is now much easier to maintain and
has a much lower number of patches.
My involvement in shadow also pushed me into looking at the code of PAM
and adduser (shadow bugs are often reported to adduser, when they can
sometimes be fixed in PAM;).
I also recently got involved in dpkg (I think Christian mentioned that
there were a lake of man power on dpkg). I mostly worked on the
internationalization bugs.
Since the freeze, I'm mostly trying to have a deeper insight in its code.
My goals on dpkg is to reduce its number of bugs for Etch+1. A first goal
will be to split install-info out of dpkg (some plans have been drawn
during DebConf, but it require a transition from all the packages
distributing info files).
I would also be interested in helping Steve on the PAM maintenance and
having an up to date PAM in Debian.
I'm also now more involved in the i18n team. (I helped during the i18n
meeting in Extremadura, and I'm involved with the i18n.debian.net server)
I'm also packaging pootle and the python-jtoolkit
(the Debian i18n infrastructure will maybe be based on Pootle)
I recently adopted po-debconf and intltool-debin after Denis Barbier
proposed them to me and I'm packaging a small game: sudoku.
2. Philosophy and Procedures
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Nicolas has a excelent 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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Nicolas is Maintainer of various packages, including shadow, po-debconf and
po4a mostly sponsored by Christian Perrier. 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: nekral
Forward-Email: nicolas.francois@centraliens.net
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