Hi Aleksey et al., On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 01:17:02AM +0700, Aleksey Kravchenko wrote: > This is my declaration of intent to become a Debian Maintainer > <URL:http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer>. > > I have read the Social Contract, Debian Free Software Guidelines and > Debian Machine Usage Policy and agree with all of them. > > Currently, I maintain the package rhash (which generates 10 binary > packages, including LibRHash bindings for Java/Perl/Python/Ruby). Just to introduce myself, I've been sponsoring rhash for the past uploads and worked with Aleksey quite closely to get it into the current shape. > My GnuPG key E37363AE (fingerprint 2875 F6B1 C2D2 7A4F 0C8A F60B 2A71 > 4497 E373 63AE) is signed by the Debian Developer Mikhail Gusarov. > > I look forward to becoming a Debian Maintainer. Thanks for your attention. Seconded. I'd welcome this request being positively answered by the DAM. I am sure that Aleksey Kravchenko has the technical skills needed to maintain Debian packages. I support his application to become a Debian maintainer, because he has put large efforts into making the code (both his upstream code and the Debian packaging part) of rhash both elegant and effective and thus very readable for a sponsor. Updates are well documented and easy to grasp from reviewing the debdiff. It's one of the few packets that regularly suceed my review on the first upload (only some of the larger changes introducing the new python/perl/java bindings needed some more back and forth discussion about what would be the best way to package it - as would have with any DD as large updates to a package never come in a single commit). It's always a pleasure to work with him as he very positively and openly accepts feedback about required changes and mostly puts them straight into a competently crafted version of what you proposed to him. Mostly even exceeding the expecations of what you intended to tell him. New technologies he will read into very quickly and come up with the correct implementation. He also has a profound understanding of the DFSG and its implications which we talked about quite a bit concerning the OpenSSL relation of his code. His English (at least the written form I've encountered so far) is very fluent and legible and therefore it's a pleasure to communicate with him on and off topic. If there's anything else the NM frontdesk would like to read about my experiences working with him feel free to ask. As said, it'd be an enrichment for the Debian project to have Aleksey aboard. -- Cheers, Kilian
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