1. Identification & Account Data -------------------------------- First name: Gergely Last name: Nagy Key fingerprint: 10E6 5DC0 45EA BEFC C519 3A26 AC1E 90BA C433 F68F Account: algernon Forward email: algernon@madhouse-project.org ID check passed, key signed by 14 existing developers: Output from keycheck.sh: > gpg: requesting key C433F68F from hkp server keys.gnupg.net > pub 4096R/C433F68F 2010-09-29 > Key fingerprint = 10E6 5DC0 45EA BEFC C519 3A26 AC1E 90BA C433 F68F > uid Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org> > sig! 69C0FA93 2011-03-23 Tamas SZERB <toma@debian.org> > sig! 33FC40A4 2011-05-11 A Mennucc1 <mennucc1@debian.org> > sig! A51A4FDD 2011-05-14 Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org> > sig! 2B0920C0 2011-06-04 Loïc Minier (lool) <lool@dooz.org> > sig! DD079461 2011-08-22 Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@debian.org> > sig! C1A00121 2010-10-01 Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> > sig! 01AA4A64 2011-05-11 Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com> > sig! 8AEA8FEE 2011-07-26 Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net> > sig! 6D866396 2011-07-28 Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc> > sig! 8649AA06 2011-08-01 gregor herrmann <gregor.herrmann@comodo.priv.at> > sig! CD92D072 2011-05-18 Stefano Rivera <stefano@rivera.za.net> > sig! E397832F 2011-09-18 Luca Capello <luca@pca.it> > sig!1 0ED6122A 2011-07-28 Serafeim Zanikolas <sez@debian.org> > sig!3 D9AB457E 2011-08-15 Giovanni Mascellani <mascellani@poisson.phc.unipi.it> > sig!3 C433F68F 2010-09-29 Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org> > sig!3 C433F68F 2011-01-13 Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org> > uid Gergely Nagy <algernon@bonehunter.rulez.org> > sig! 69C0FA93 2011-03-23 Tamas SZERB <toma@debian.org> > sig! 33FC40A4 2011-05-11 A Mennucc1 <mennucc1@debian.org> > sig! A51A4FDD 2011-05-14 Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org> > sig! 2B0920C0 2011-06-04 Loïc Minier (lool) <lool@dooz.org> > sig! DD079461 2011-08-22 Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@debian.org> > sig- C1A00121 2010-10-01 Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> > sig! C1A00121 2010-10-01 Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> > sig! 01AA4A64 2011-05-11 Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com> > sig! 8AEA8FEE 2011-07-26 Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net> > sig! 6D866396 2011-07-28 Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc> > sig- CD92D072 2011-05-18 Stefano Rivera <stefano@rivera.za.net> > sig! CD92D072 2011-05-18 Stefano Rivera <stefano@rivera.za.net> > sig! E397832F 2011-09-18 Luca Capello <luca@pca.it> > sig!1 0ED6122A 2011-07-28 Serafeim Zanikolas <sez@debian.org> > sig!3 D9AB457E 2011-08-15 Giovanni Mascellani <mascellani@poisson.phc.unipi.it> > sig!3 C433F68F 2010-09-29 Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org> > sub 4096R/873A9B67 2010-09-29 > sig! C433F68F 2010-09-29 Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org> > > 2 bad signatures > 74 signatures not checked due to missing keys > Key is OpenPGP version 4 or greater. > Key has 4096 bits. > Valid "e" flag, no expiration. > Valid "s" flag, no expiration. NB: He is a returning developer, previously removed via MIA. 2. Background ------------- Applicant writes: > I'm a tiny mouse, a hacker. At least, that's how I like to imagine > myself: a small grey guy getting stuff done out of the spotlight. That > said, I'm almost old enough for my age to not fit into 5 bits - but > luckily I still have two years to go before I need the sixth bit to > store my age. I'm single, no children, no wife, no life whatsoever. > > At the early age of two, I was exposed to computers, and I couldn't get > rid of that addiction since then (not that I wanted to, mind you). When > I was six, I ran out of games on my Commodore+4, and started to be a bit > bored, so with the help of my father, I wrote my first program ever. I > loved it, and that set the course of my life afterwards. > > As most people with a PC at the time, I ended up using MS-DOS when we > bought our first PC in 1991. Learned QBasic, then quickly outgrew it, > and turned to Turbo Pascal - that's where I really learnt to > program. It's help system is still second best I've evern seen, up to > this day, only eclipsed by Emacs. > > As a logical upgrade, we ended up with Win95 on the PC, and I happily > poked away in Delphi for a while, but then, on a dark day in 1997, I > believe (but might've been late 1996.. it probably was), windows > crashed. So hard, that it took the hard drive with it, together with all > the programs I have written, all the music I have composed (I was the > keyboardist & songwriter of a band between 1994 and 1997). I was pissed > beyond imagination. > > At that time, I was dreaming of becoming a writer, or a poet (I wrote > about 100 poems by that time, which grew to about 300 as of 2011, with a > few hundred pages of short novels and other stuff), which my literature > teacher in school was recommending aswell. > > Incidentally, she was also a SuSE user (she taught hungarian grammar & > literature, and used Linux because TeX). So I asked her for a SuSE CD, > and installed it. I did hear about Linux before: from this teacher, and > a magazine I was reading had a few articles about the 1.2 kernel at some > point, which I found interesting. > > I played around with SuSe for a little while, which was an interesting > experience. I had no book, no prior unix experience, no nothing, apart > From seeing it mentioned in an article in a magazine, and hearing a few > words about it from my literature teacher. I didn't even know that it > was free software, with source code. > > Once I got comfortable enough with the system, and I stopped breaking it > every other day, I learned Perl, because that seemed to be the standard > scripting language (and I had no intention of learning C at that time - > I had a brief exposure to Turbo C around 1993, and found it awkward > compared to pascal). > > While learning Perl, I discovered that there's a whole world of source > code out there, and that it is free software: I can look at it, change > it, tweak it, reuse it, build on it! It was fascinating. But I didn't > have the sources for my SuSE system, and obtaining them proved to be a > bit difficult (I had no network at the time, and no money to pay for a > source CD - I didn't have a CD-ROM reader, either). > > So I looked around to find something else, and found Debian. When I > found it, slink was about to be released, so I waited for it, downloaded > the installation disks (1.44Mb floppy disks!), and installed it. Not > having YaST step on my toes was priceless. I immediately saw this was a > system that works FOR me, that doesn't try to be smarter than me, yet, > is still rock solid. > > I loved apt-get: even though I did not have an internet connection, I > could get the list of packages I needed to install, go to school, > download them from FTP one by one, take it home on floppy disks and > install them. > > That's how I upgraded from slink to potato during the months potato was > frozen. Broke my system in spectacular ways a couple of times, but it > was a great feeling and an experience I'm proud of. > > At the same time, I started to look at other source codes, C code > aswell, because I stumbled upon bugs I needed to fix. So I ended up > learning C aswell, by beating code until it did what I wanted it to. > > In 1998, a friend of mine and myself won a competition to build the > school website, and the server under it. He got the domain name, did all > the boring people-tasks, and I was the techie doing the rest. I set up > apache, wrote a webmail system in perl, a pop3d in C (the latter was one > of my first publicly released and used free program, as far as I can > remember). > > By september 2000, I was quite versed in this GNU/Linux thing, and so > grateful for all the tools Debian allowed me to learn and use daily, > that I ended up applying, and was accepted some two months later, after > a 8-day mail exchange between myself and my AM (Martin Michlmayr). > > So, that's how I met GNU/Linux and Free Software in general, and the > reason I want to volunteer my time is similar to what it was more than a > decade ago: I received so much, that I feel obliged to give > back. Contributing to the system I've been using each day for the past > 13 years or so is the only way I can think of, to repay my debt. It's > also a lot of fun, and something I can be proud of. > > Something I can tell my children in the years to come: look, daddy is > part of this great thing called Debian! With a swirly logo, lots of > strange people and fun little stuff like apt-get moo! > > I believe in Free Software, I saw how it makes people's lives better, it > even landed me my dream job! The least I can do is to humbly contribute > back what I've learned all through the years. 3. Philosophy and Procedures ----------------------------- algernon 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. algernon committed to uphold the SC and DFSG in his Debian work and accepts the DMUP. 4. Tasks and Skills ------------------- algernon has a good understanding of the technical side of Debian. algernon is maintainer of dpatch, libmongo-client, git-flow. All packages are in good shape. algernon also answered my other questions regarding T&S without problems 5. Recommendation ----------------- I recommend to accept algernon as a Debian Developer. -- Luke Faraone;; Debian & Ubuntu Developer; Sugar Labs, Systems lfaraone on irc.[freenode,oftc].net -- http://luke.faraone.cc PGP fprint: 5189 2A7D 16D0 49BB 046B DC77 9732 5DD8 F9FD D506
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