Report for Debian Developer Applicant Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>:
1. Identification & Background
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sig! 9B441EA8 2006-05-22 maximilian attems <maks@debian.org>
sig! BC7D020A 2007-03-03 Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org>
sig!3 37E272E8 2004-10-21 Michael Prokop (Web: www.michael-prokop.at) <mail@michael-prokop.at>
sig! AB9B66FD 2008-09-05 Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org>
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sig! 1B3045CE 2008-09-08 Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org>
sig! 5706A4B4 2008-09-15 Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@hogyros.de>
sig! AC583520 2008-09-21 Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
sig! P 92082481 2008-09-30 Adrian von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch>
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Applicant writes:
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| IIRC I came to GNU/Linux during a course at university. Free
| software was great for me because I could learn a lot via looking at
| the source code of programs I actively used. Because I liked this
| principle so much I decided to give something back to the community
| as well on my own.
|
| In 2003 I was pretty unhappy about the state of several Linux
| distributions and decided to create my own distribution. But instead
| of re-enventing the wheel I finally decided to build my work on top
| of the (IMHO) best available distribution - being Debian. :) The
| result of the work is a meta-distribution named "grml"
| (http://grml.org/) which is meant especially for sysadmins,
| texttool-users and also handicapped persons. One of my most
| important policies behind grml always was and is to tell people that
| grml is based on Debian and that all grml developers should work
| *together* with Debian people instead of hiding problems or even
| duplicating work. It's very important for me that people are aware
| of the importance of Debian for projects like grml.
|
| Working as a system administrator and system integrator I'm
| interested in the server part of Debian, but thanks to grml of
| course also in all the live-cd areas. I would like to provide
| furthermore software and features we have in grml to Debian. My
| contributions are especially in above mentioned areas (including
| packages like initramfs-tools, live-initramfs,...). Due to the
| nature of grml (mainly) being built upon Debian/unstable I try to be
| a well informed and up2date person and report bugs/patches wherever
| possible. Because I'm also very interested in project management in
| the Open Source field I could also image to contribute to the
| quality assurance of Debian.
2. Philosophy and Procedures
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Michael has a good understanding of Debian's Philosophy and
Procedures. He answered all my questions about the Social Contract,
the DFSG and the BTS.
3. Tasks and Skills
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Michael is Maintainer of op and iwatch, Packages in Debian. More
interestingly, Michael is the founder and lead developer of the grml
project, which provides Debian-based live CDs.
He also answered my questions regarding T&S without problems.
4. Recommendation
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I recommend to accept him as a Debian Developer.
Account: mika
Forward-Email: mika@grml.org
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