1. Identification & Account Data
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First name: Heiko
Middle name: Stübner
Key fingerprint:
Account: mmind
Forward email: heiko@sntech.de
ID check passed, key signed by 2 existing developers:
Output from keycheck.sh:
wouter@celtic:~/debian/nm/nm-svn/nm-templates$ ./keycheck.sh 9AFB7B8C9A5F5BBC
Syncing Debian Keyrings with rsync from keyring.debian.org
Receiving and checking key
gpg: requesting key 9A5F5BBC from hkp server keys.gnupg.net
pub 2048R/9A5F5BBC 2006-04-29
Key fingerprint = 795D 0851 095C AACA 16CA 7925 9AFB 7B8C 9A5F 5BBC
uid Heiko Stübner <heiko@sntech.de>
sig!3 9A5F5BBC 2010-05-22 Heiko Stübner <heiko@sntech.de>
uid Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
sig! 30825345 2009-05-28 Erik Schanze <schanzi_@gmx.de>
sig!3 9A5F5BBC 2006-04-29 Heiko Stübner <heiko@sntech.de>
sig! 558FB8DD 2009-05-11 Jan Dittberner <jan@dittberner.info>
sub 2048R/8C5A8E1E 2006-04-29
sig! 9A5F5BBC 2006-04-29 Heiko Stübner <heiko@sntech.de>
sub 1024D/EA316797 2006-04-29
sig! 9A5F5BBC 2006-04-29 Heiko Stübner <heiko@sntech.de>
3 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 0x9AFB7B8C9A5F5BBC, no expiration
Valid "s" flag on key 0x9AFB7B8C9A5F5BBC, no expiration
2. Background
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Applicant writes:
My first contact with GNU/Linux was with Suse when I was still in secondary
school - a friend who studied at the local university introduced me to it.
When I first tried Debian after reading much about it, Potato was the current
stable release - I still keep the cds :-)
The only other Distributions I came in contact with are Knoppix and Ubuntu.
Professionally I work as software engineer and server administrator (Debian of
course) but my main private interesst which lead to my current involvement in
Debian is my phone - the Openmoko Freerunner.
After using Debian on it since the beginning in april 2009 I began to package
the vala implementation of the freesmartphone.org software stack named
cornucopia. After doing this on my own and only showing my progress to the
pkg-fso team I was invited to join in june 2009 by Luca Capello. Since then I
tried to stay above the cornucopia<->vala breakage [they share much
development and with each new vala version something breaks] and improve the
Freerunners usability.
As part of this I often chase vala bugs which are part of a young and fast
evolving language [see #547204 for something were I didn't have sucess so far]
Since december 2009 I'm also Debian-Maintainer.
In retrospect I don't regret a bit the change to the Freerunner and I wouldn't
want to change back to any featurephone or smartphone running anything but
Debian.
Apart from the freesmartphone.org stuff I maintain agtl a tool for paperless
geocaching and libnl2 a snapshot of the current libnl development tree needed
as a build-dependency of libfsobasics.
All the stuff is available on
http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=heiko@sntech.de
Future plans include improving my (everyone elses) phone experience on the
Freerunner. Also the Google Nexus One is released in some days in germany and
as I have read it should be fairly easy to get it to run Debian nativly.
Another intresting gadget I have my eye on is the txtr ebook reader which also
is not restricted and should boot any GNU/Linux distribution off the sd-card.
[and it also includes a gsm modem].
3. Philosophy and Procedures
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Heiko 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. Heiko committed to uphold the SC and DFSG
in his Debian work and accepts the DMUP.
4. Tasks and Skills
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Heiko has a good understanding of the technical side of Debian.
He is maintainer of various freesmartphone.org-related packages (sponsored
by his advocate, Steffen Moeller), as well as the agtl, libnl2, and
vala-dbus-binding-tool packages.
All packages are in good shape.
Heiko also answered my other questions regarding T&S without problems.
5. Recommendation
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I recommend to accept Heiko as a Debian Developer.
--
The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters
works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is
trying to fool the system.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html
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