NM Front Desk dijo [Wed, May 05, 2010 at 03:33:53AM +0000]: > Auth-Key: nmauth8516eb5ede9276908126ac8529c71ef8 > Applicant: William Vera <billy@billy.com.mx> > > 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? I have known William for many years already - probably at least since 2005, and he was already interested in getting more into Debian. I have not directly worked Debian-wise with William, but know him from the Free Software activities in my country - and have talked with him several times. I have reviewed his currently sponsored work in Debian, and is very well kept, which speaks well about his personal abilities and motivation. Besides general GNU/Linux promotion as the LUG leader in Mérida, Yucatán, William currently maintains 12 packages in Debian¹, all of them with perfect QA as of right now. He was explaining to me his strategy towards choosing which packages to take over: By using wnpp-alert, he learns about packages he uses and which are orphaned. William tells me he is trying to fix the situation where many people have found it cool and trendy to upload a package to Debian, only to later abandon it. He is currently working in the security/forensic areas, and those are the areas he shows most interest in colaborating with in Debian. In short, I expect him to be a valuable addition to Debian. ¹ http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=billy@billy.com.mx -- Gunnar Wolf • gwolf@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244
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