Report for NM applicant Scott Kitterman <scott@kitterman.com>:
1. Identification & Background
------------------------------
First name: Scott
Last name: Kitterman
Key fingerprint: 7523 647B 95E5 0475 47EC 2BBA 1DA8 DA33 DDCD 686A
Account: kitterman
Forward email: debian@kitterman.com
Scott's key is signed by three Debian Developers; the key ID is
0x1DA8DA33DDCD686A; ID check passed.
Output from keycheck.sh:
pub 1024D/DDCD686A 2006-12-19
Key fingerprint = 7523 647B 95E5 0475 47EC 2BBA 1DA8 DA33 DDCD 686A
uid Donald Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>
sig!3 DDCD686A 2008-05-28 Donald Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>
uid Donald Scott Kitterman <scott@kitterman.com>
sig! B2CFCDD8 2009-06-11 Philipp Kern
sig!3 5E0577F2 2009-05-27 Martin Pitt <martin@piware.de>
sig!3 DDCD686A 2006-12-19 Donald Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>
sig! 0E1FAD0C 2009-05-28 Jo Shields <directhex@apebox.org>
uid Donald Scott Kitterman <ubuntu@Kitterman.com>
sig!3 DDCD686A 2006-12-19 Donald Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>
sub 2048g/2963D4D5 2006-12-19
sig! DDCD686A 2006-12-19 Donald Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>
13 signatures not checked due to missing keys
Let's test if its a version 4 or greater key
Key is OpenPGP version 4 or greater. Good!
Check for key expire stuff
Valid "e" flag on key 0x1DA8DA33DDCD686A, no expiration
Valid "s" flag on key 0x1DA8DA33DDCD686A, no expiration
2. Background
-------------
Scott writes about himself:
| I am a system engineering consultant by trade. I'm 47 years old and
| live outside Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. I've been
| interested in computers since I was in Junior High School (~13 years
| old), back when that meant typing on a teletype connected to a distant
| mainframe through an acoustic coupler. I used to be able to whistle
| the first bits of the connect sequence for a 110 baud modem.
|
| My first significant exposure to free software was the Mozilla suite
| starting just before 1.0 was released (mid 2002). Around the same
| time I started learning about FOSS and community based development
| techniques in general. I work as a consultant and could see that this
| new (to me) way of developing software could have benefit to my
| customers. In 2003 I got involved in a work project that required me
| to do some programming (the first I'd done since I was in college ~20
| years before). After some research, I decided to use Python and have
| used it since for quite a number of things.
|
| My first deep involvement in an open source project was with the
| Sender Policy Framework (SPF) project: http://www.openspf.org/. I've
| been involved with the project since 2004, including being a member of
| the SPF Council (the governing body for the project). I maintain a
| number of related packages in Debian as well as doing upstream
| development and maintenance work.
|
| As I learned more about free software, I became more and more
| concerned about continuing to base my business around Microsoft
| Windows and proprietary software in general. I believe that free
| software is the right thing to do, I also believe it works better.
| Personally the former is important to me, professionally, the latter
| is critical. Eventually I concluded that proprietary software (due
| to security, licensing, and performance reasons) represented an
| unreasonable business risk. I set up my first mail server in 2005
| (Debian Sarge).
|
| I am active in both Debian and Ubuntu development. In Debian my
| primary focus has been in the Debian Python teams. I hope to continue
| to help improve this area. I'm currently working on updating Debian's
| Python policy to deal with Python 3 and to improve the robustness of
| the Debian Python stack.
2a. Advocation
--------------
Scott was advocated by Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> who said the
following about him (back in 2007):
| Scott is a Debian Python Modules Team and Python Applications
| Packaging Team member. He maintains SPF (Sender Policy Framework)
| related stuff in Debian. As Ubuntu MOTU he really tries to merge
| Ubuntu changes back to Debian, he wrote a wiki page about our team
| and tries to convince Ubuntu guys that contributing to Debian is a
| really good way to develop their distro.
Of course today Piotr still wants to see Scott to be a DD as soon as
possible.
3. Philosophy and Procedures
----------------------------
Scott has a good understanding of Debian's philosophy and procedures
and answered all my questions about the social contract,
DFSG, BTS, etc. in a good way. Scott committed to uphold the SC and DFSG
in his Debian work and accepts the DMUP.
4. Tasks and Skills
-------------------
Scott currently maintains klamav, postfix-policyd-spf-perl, pydkim,
pymilter, pymilter-milters, pypolicyd-spf, pyspf, pysubnettree, python-dns,
python-ipaddr and stepic. He also co-maintains python-defaults and
pyyaml. He was mentioned in at least 165 Debian changelog entries since
2007.
Over at Ubuntu he is a MOTU since 2007, a core-dev since 2008 and after
being a member of the Ubuntu Universe Release Team, he's now a member
of the merged Ubuntu Release Team and a Package Adminitrator. He has
strong reviewing skills and regularily sponsors package uploads there.
5. Recommendation
-----------------
Scott demonstrated a strong commitment to the Debian Project, patiently
waiting for quite some time, and thus I heartly recommend to accept him
as a Debian Developer.
Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature