1. Identification & Account Data
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First name: Intrigeri
Last name:
Key fingerprint: 1152 BF13 6B7A 1B1C 49FC A659 BACE 15D2 A574 98FF
Account: intrigeri
Forward email: intrigeri+debian@boum.org
Key Check:
gpg: requesting key A57498FF from hkp server keys.gnupg.net
pub 4096R/A57498FF 2009-09-13 [expires: 2014-09-12]
Key fingerprint = 1152 BF13 6B7A 1B1C 49FC A659 BACE 15D2 A574 98FF
uid intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>
sig! EBE2D002 2011-07-30 Ulises Vitulli <uvitulli@fi.uba.ar>
sig! 2861A790 2009-09-18 Micah Anderson <micah@riseup.net>
sig! D21739E9 2011-08-04 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
sig!3 A57498FF 2009-09-13 intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>
sig!3 A57498FF 2009-09-13 intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>
sig!3 A57498FF 2009-09-13 intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>
uid intrigeri <intrigeri@squat.net>
sig! EBE2D002 2011-07-30 Ulises Vitulli <uvitulli@fi.uba.ar>
sig! 2861A790 2009-09-18 Micah Anderson <micah@riseup.net>
sig! D21739E9 2011-08-04 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
sig!3 A57498FF 2009-09-13 intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>
uid intrigeri <intrigeri@riseup.net>
sig!3 A57498FF 2011-08-28 intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>
uid intrigeri <intrigeri+debian@boum.org>
sig! D21739E9 2011-08-20 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
sig!3 A57498FF 2011-08-14 intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>
uid intrigeri (Debian work) <intrigeri+debian@boum.org>
sig! EBE2D002 2011-07-30 Ulises Vitulli <uvitulli@fi.uba.ar>
sig! 2861A790 2011-05-11 Micah Anderson <micah@riseup.net>
rev! A57498FF 2011-07-27 intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>
sig!3 A57498FF 2011-05-11 intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>
sig!3 A57498FF 2011-07-29 intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>
uid Intri Geri (Debian work) <intrigeri+debian@boum.org>
sig! EBE2D002 2011-07-30 Ulises Vitulli <uvitulli@fi.uba.ar>
sig! 2861A790 2011-07-28 Micah Anderson <micah@riseup.net>
sig!3 A57498FF 2011-07-27 intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>
sub 4096R/93F976C9 2009-09-13 [expires: 2014-09-12]
sig! A57498FF 2009-09-13 intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>
sub 4096R/D5C743BC 2010-08-22 [revoked: 2010-09-12]
sig! A57498FF 2010-08-22 intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>
rev! A57498FF 2010-09-12 intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>
sub 4096R/0F768ECC 2010-09-12 [expires: 2014-05-08]
sig! A57498FF 2011-05-09 intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>
Key is OpenPGP version 4 or greater.
Key has 4096 bits.
Valid "e" flag, expires Friday 12,September,2014 07:38:47 AM CST.
Valid "s" flag, expires Friday 12,September,2014 07:38:47 AM CST.
His key has two DD signatures, I asked privately to Micah and Ulises the process
they follow to valid his identity and IMHO is ok. According to previous cases
and discussion DAM/DPL will need to validate his identity.
2. Background
-------------
Applicant writes:
Once I was hooked to computers, the blackbox proprietary software is
did not manage to keep me silently jailed for long. I wanted to
understand how the software I run works, and why I happened to manage
to fix your brother's OS by clicking this seemingly unrelated
checkbox. I also wanted to fix bugs I suffered from, but this I did
not know yet, lacking the skills and the mere idea I could be able to
do it.
I wanted to share software without spending time playing the various
tricks the poor in this world use to use proprietary software despite
its huge cost. All in all, I wanted to share, meet and participate
instead of being a passive consumer.
A friend of mine helped me install a Red Hat 5 dual-boot. Wow.
Everything I could want to understand was documented somehow! However,
the lack of Internet connection made it harder for me to upgrade
packages and get in touch with the community; also, time constraints
prevented me from learning that much about GNU/Linux for a while. So
for three years, I went on playing with it, using it as much as
possible but going back every now and then to another dreaded but
more familiar OS, unfortunately.
Only in the beginning of this century I physically met other people
who did want to collectively reclaim software and the use of it.
Together we empowered each other to use Debian GNU/Linux as our
primary OS. In these years of Internet access rarity, we run free (as
in free beer) Internet access spaces that run free (as in free speech)
software; we run skills sharing workshops about GNU/Linux and online
privacy; we revived old hardware, installed Debian GNU/Linux on it and
gave it for free to those who need it; we learned iptables/netfilter
and setup NAT routers in collective houses to ease Internet access
sharing (where I live, domestic DSL modems were only modems at this
time).
Privacy, be it online or offline, already was my main area of
interest; e.g. in I translated the CrytoAPI how-to - in 2003, I
believe - yeah, this was the pre-dm-crypt time, you know.
I started learning some programming and sysadmin skills, learned how
to discuss with the Debian BTS and others, learned some about how free
software communities work (or don't), learned some about how the
volunteer software maintenance work, and went my way from "please
apply my first patch to CVS" - this was against Scribus IIRC; I
managed to forget everything about C++ in the meantime, which I
honestly don't regret. I also forgot how to download a keygen, how to
Ghost a "clean" Windows install back 3 months after it was saved, and
generally how to deal with software that is not distributed in the
preferred form of modification. Another side effect Free Software had
on me, perhaps more unfortunate, is that I forgot most of the
algorithmic skills I had, thanks to libraries written by others and my
deep dislike of wheels reinventing.
As of today, I maintain some pieces of free software (I wrote or did
not), both upstream and in Debian: backupninja, metche, parcimonie.
I'm one of the core developers of [Tails], that is the love child of
Debian, Debian Live and Tor. Debian being my main upstream and
downstream, no wonder I also participate in it, is it? I've been a
GSoC mentor for the Tails project this year; also, I've been helping
for a while a few upstream authors to get their software in proper
shape for Debian -and generally, to be distribution-friendly-, and
ITP'd it, because I find their software great and useful, I want to
get it into Tails -if not into the desktop task-, and I want to be
able to tell my friends -and every other Debian user- they can install
it easily using Synaptic or their preferred package manager. To end
with, as a Perl programmer, I want to participate in the maintenance
of CPAN modules in Debian - hence my beginnings in pkg-perl.
[Tails] http://tails.boum.org/
I've no specific shiny new goal in Debian. Becoming a DD will make it
easier (both for me and for my sponsors) to go on doing what I do; it
will make it easier for Tails to give back to Debian. It will make my
life easier as a Perl programmer. My involvement in Debian grew up
in the recent years, and I now have a hard time saying "they" and not
"we" when talking about Debian; attending DebConf11 only made this
more obvious; time to become a project member!
Internet search says:
A simple search shows a lot of his work on CPAN, Debian, Upstream and his
activism on privacy.
3. Philosophy and Procedures
-----------------------------
Intrigeri 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. He committed to uphold the SC and DFSG
in his Debian work and accepts the DMUP.
4. Tasks and Skills
-------------------
Intrigeri has a good understanding of the technical side of Debian.
He is maintainer of backupninja, libgnupg-interface-perl, libgsecuredelete,
nautilus-wipe, parcimonie.
To some of those packages he is also upstream.
All packages have being maintained in good shape for a long time, so far he
is not a DM, so all packages have being sponsored by several DDs.
I sponsored his most recently uploads, and I'm ok with the quality of his
packages and his skills.
He also answered my other questions regarding T&S without problems
and provided patches for RC bugs and prepare NMUs for those bugs.
5. Recommendation
-----------------
I recommend to accept Intrigeri as a Debian Developer.
Cheers
--
René
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