Hi to all parties involved ;) "I believe that Michael has the technical skills needed to maintain Debian packages. I support his application to become a Debian maintainer, because..." many things: I've got to know Michael through the common interest in packaging of neuroimaging software (FSL at that point in particular) for Debian few years ago. And he became the one who took the burden to package and maintain that quite complicated piece of software to be readily available for Debian (thus also Ubuntu users). If he only worked on that single package, I would be already inclined to advocate him for the DM, since he manages to provide - up-to-date releases of the package(s) - backports to a variety of debian and ubuntu releases - timely reaction to the submitted bug-reports - exposure of packaging in publicly available VCS - very good knowledge of DFSG, policy and generic comprehension of a variety of FOSS licenses - advocacy of FOSS whenever it is possible and/or appropriate - good communication skills (monitors and participates in various discussions across various Debian's mailing lists and blogs) As Michael has mentioned -- FSL is not the only package he maintains -- there is quite a few of them. I have been sponsoring most of them, and I must admit that I barely ever rejected some of the tentative packages. I merely provided additional comments on how to improve the package (it is always easier to suggest than to do the actual work ;-) ). We have troubleshooted few of the sever bugs in few packages together to provide upstream with a solution, and none of bugs iirc was left without Michael's attention. I must confess that besides all mentioned above we are good friends (I hope qualification is mutual ;-)), scientific collaborators (few papers are out), co-founders of Debian's "Experimental Psychology" packaging project [1], and co-developers of the PyMVPA project [2]. If it would be up to me, I would grant him DD status without thinking twice. But as Michael has mentioned -- NM mission was not accomplished to the time constraint (PhD PhD PhD), thus, the least "Debian" can do for Michael is to grant him DM status, so packages do not wait half of the day to be sponsored by me ;-) With best regards, [1] http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-exppsy/ [2] http://www.pymvpa.org/ On Wed, 07 Jan 2009, Michael Hanke wrote: > Hi, > I hereby want to apply to become a Debian Maintainer. > I have read the Social Contract, Debian Free Software Guidelines and > Debian Machine Usage Policy and agree with all of them. > I maintain a number of packages (mostly neuroscience-related, plus a few > more general ones), e.g. arno-iptables-firewall, dicomnifti, fslview, > hcluster, kbibtex, nifticlib, pymvpa, pynfiti, qlandkarte, ... > The full list is here: > http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=michael.hanke%40gmail.com > I am also in NM, but did not manage to finish T&S2 over the past year due to > time contrainst. I have to admit that I pretty much massively downweighted the > importance of NM in favor of package maintenance, as soon as I faced the > situation of a limited amount of time that I could devote to Debian. > Although I very much like the peer-reviewed approach of packaging with a > sponsor, I am nevertheless applying for DM in the hope to be able to > take some burden off the shoulders of Yaroslav Halchenko (my main > sponsor). > Thanks for your consideration, > Michael Hanke -- .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Keep in touch // \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User ^^-^^ [175555]
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