Report for new developer applicant Tobias Toedter <t.toedter@gmx.net>:
1. Identification & Background
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Applicant writes [Apr 2004]:
To introduce myself, I'm 30 years old, living in Hamburg, Germany
(which is in the northern part of the country). Working with
computers and programming are my hobbies, I don't do this for a
living. I finished my studies about 1.5 years ago and am now a
medical doctor, working in a hospital nearby.
My first few steps with Linux were about eight years ago, using
SuSE. This distribution was recommended to me by a friend, and back
then, both my friend and I didn't know much about the GPL and the
GNU project, so we both hadn't heard about Debian either.
As funny as it may sound, I learned more about the GNU spirit by
using SuSE (or rather the programs in their distribtion). I really
liked having a free choice of programs, completely with source code
to take a look at or modify to suit one's needs. Furthermore, major
projects like the kernel are possible by joining the forces of
several developers. All that was just fascinating!
After some years, I wasn't satisfied with SuSE any more. My
installation was a mix of their distribution and manually compiled
packages from me, which were not available or outdated in SuSE. As
a result, the packaging tool yast choked sometimes and messed with
my configurations. All this lead me to the conclusion that it was
time to try something new.
When I bought a new computer, I thought that this was a good
opportunity to install a new distro from scratch. I already had
heard of Debian, and some articles about it in the computer
magazine I'm reading convinced me to give Debian a try. It's
supposed to make updates smoothly possible, and if your favorite
package isn't included, you can easily create it yourself. That was
just about everything that I wanted from a Linux distribution. It
was just natural for me to switch to Debian.
After using Debian for some time, I decided to become involved in
the maintaining of this distribution, so I adopted an orphaned
package about one year ago. In the meantime, I'm maintaining five
packages for Debian and have been sponsored all the time. After
almost one year of sponsorship, I think it's just the next logical
step to apply as a maintainer. [...]
2. Account Data
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Account: toddy
Forward-Email: t.toedter@gmx.net
3. Philosophy and Procedures
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[99.7% of the NM work with Tobias was done by Nicolas Boullis. I'm
merely assembling the AM report.]
Tobias has a good understanding of Debian's philosophy and
procedures and answered Nicolas' questions about the social
contract, DFSG, BTS, etc. in a good way. Tobias committed to uphold
the SC and DFSG in his Debian work and accepts the DMUP.
4. Tasks and Skills
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Tobias has a good understanding of the technical side of Debian.
Tobias is maintainer of iso-codes (together with Alastair McKinstry
and Christian Perrier), qbrew, worker, userinfo, grab, and
bookmarks (sponsored by Tony Mancill). All packages are in good
shape. Tobias also answered Nicolas' questions regarding T&S
without problems and provided patches for RC bugs.
5. Recommendation
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I recommend to accept Tobias as a Debian Developer, as Nicolas
does.
Christoph
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