AM report for Chris Lamb <chris@chris-lamb.co.uk>
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I am pleased to report on the new developer applicantion of
Chris Lamb <chris@chris-lamb.co.uk>:
1. Identification & Background
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uid Chris Lamb (Lamby) <chris@chris-lamb.co.uk>
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Applicant writes:
I am currently a 22-year-old postgraduate computer science student at the
University of Warwick in England.
My first contact with GNU/Linux was approximately 8 years ago with Slackware
and--as these stories inevitably go--I experimented with a number of
distributions before finding a Debian "Slink" disk. However, I did not have
internet access for many years, so the free software community remained
essentially hidden from me.
At University, I started using GNU/Linux in a serious way and after learning
more about the philosophies behind it (and understanding it better in a
technical sense) I decided to attempt to exclusively use free software on my
computers. I am now an keen advocate and have convinced various family
members and friends to draw the same conclusions.
My first encounter with Debian development was by lurking on a number of
mailing lists for a few months before offering patches on some bugs that
were affecting me in the (then-testing) Etch. A little later I managed to
get a few new packages uploaded to the archive for software I was interested
in and joined the Debian Live team after being accepted as a student for
the Google "Summer of Code" programme.
These days, my areas of interest within Debian still reside with the Debian
Live project as well as with a growing number of packages, mostly adopted
via wnpp due to varying degrees of neglect. I am also interested in the
general quality of the archive and enjoy submitting patches for a variety of
packages. I have also written a few Debian-specific programs, mostly aimed
at developers.
Outside of Debian development, I maintain a number of Debian machines,
including a not-for-profit Xen-hosting venture and a number of machines
belonging to my university's Computing Society including a 250-user shell
account server. I am also Projects Officer for my university's GNU/Linux
user group.
2. Account Data
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Account: lamby
Forward-Email: chris@chris-lamb.co.uk
3. Philosophy and Procedures
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Chris has a very good understanding of Debian's philosophy and procedures
and easily answered all my questions about the social contract,
DFSG, BTS, etc. He committed to uphold the
SC and DFSG in his Debian work and accepts the DMUP.
4. Tasks and Skills
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Chris has a good understanding of the technical side of Debian.
He is maintainer of the following packages in main, mostly
sponsored by Daniel Baumann (daniel), some by Cyril Brulebois
(kibi), and one by Matthew Johnson (mjj29):
aptfs bzr-gtk cakephp cakephp-instaweb codespeak-lib debian-bts-applet
drm-snapshot geordi giftrans haskell-irc haskell-utf8-string
jasmin-sable live-installer live-magic mtpfs pypy swi-prolog
swi-prolog-doc trac-bzr trac-spamfilter xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
Of note is that these packages involve a fair set of languages,
at least C, PHP, Python, Haskell, and Prolog. Also of note is
the XServer Nouveau driver.
A cursory inspection of his packages turned up nothing of
concern.
He has participated in BSPs and is active in QA, contributing
almost 80 NMUs (between April and today) as well as 7 QA uploads,
fixing RC and release goal bugs.
He is credited with patches 10 times in the lintian changelog.
An inspection of approximately 30 random bug reports matching
a quick grep for his name showed that he addresses bugs in his
package in a timely and professional way, has provided many patches
(on top of above NMUs), and communicates very well with bug
submitters, upstream, and other maintainers.
Chris also answered my other questions regarding T&S without problems.
5. Recommendation
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As far as the Application Manager is concerned, Debian wants Chris.
I heartily recommend to accept Chris as a Debian Developer and
look forward to having him as my peer in the project.
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Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/
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