Re: Advocating Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>
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Applicant: Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>
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Why do you advocate this person? (please provide a 5-10 line summary).
You are encouraged to take questions such as the following into account
but you're not limited to answering these:
- How have they contributed to Debian already?
- What do they intend to do for Debian in the future?
- How do they interact with others, such as users and other developers?
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Contribution:
The applicant saw my RFH open for OpenSceneGraph and offered to help (about 6
months ago), initially I advised him to start helping Debian with simpler
packages, however he persevered and produced an initial release of a new
upstream version fairly quickly after his initial contact (and 3 or 4 since that
in subsequent releases).
He did many things, and more importantly, all in the right direction, requiring
few corrections or help from me: revisiting patches and dropping some, opening
bugs upstream, improving debian specific stuff (writing more accurate
descriptions, standards versions, debhelper compatibility, watch file, quelling
lintian warnings), fixing nuisances with man pages, and closing several bugs in
the process. He also created a new binary package to alleviate the load on
servers with arch-independent data, and removed a package of documentation which
was left empty in the later versions.
Interaction:
We (the applicant, me), along with Alberto Luaces, collaborated effectively to
discuss problems coming from upstream with SOVERSIONS, how to best fix the
issues raised, etc.; and the last versions of OSG were created by Alberto Luaces
also based partly on the job of the applicant (and with hints from him).
Future:
He told me about his interest in becoming a Debian Developer in order to, apart
from continuing improving OpenSceneGraph, update another packages very outdated
with which he has experience (the upstream project); I'll be sponsoring him for
that too if he doesn't manage to get permissions to do so before next freeze.
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