1. Identification & Account Data -------------------------------- First name: Johann Middle name: Felix Last name: Soden Key fingerprint: 477C 8339 D36D 766E D853 201C 8359 193B FDCB Account: johfel Forward email: johfel@gmx.de ID check passed, key signed by 3 existing developers: Output from keycheck.sh: > pub 4096R/FDCB09C4 2009-08-03 > Key fingerprint = 477C 8339 D36D 766E D853 201C 8359 193B FDCB 09C4 > uid Johann Felix Soden <johfel@gmx.de> > sig! 9ED101BF 2009-10-12 Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> > sig!3 D49AE731 2009-09-07 Christoph Egger <christoph.egger@gmx.de> > sig!3 FDCB09C4 2009-08-03 Johann Felix Soden <johfel@gmx.de> > uid Johann Felix Soden <johfel@users.sourceforge.net> > sig! 9ED101BF 2009-10-12 Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> > sig!3 D49AE731 2009-09-07 Christoph Egger <christoph.egger@gmx.de> > sig!3 FDCB09C4 2009-08-03 Johann Felix Soden <johfel@gmx.de> > sub 4096R/8598E8A5 2009-09-07 > sig! FDCB09C4 2009-09-07 Johann Felix Soden <johfel@gmx.de> > > Key is OpenPGP version 4 or greater. > Key has 4096 bits. > Valid "e" flag, no expiration. > Valid "s" flag, no expiration. 2. Background ------------- Applicant writes: > I am 24 years old and study physics in Munich, Germany. I use Debian > for about 9 years. Soon I switched to Debian Sid and got to know its > beautiful and challenging sides. I wanted to contribute more than just > writing bug reports. > > I searched for missing packages and found pdfchain, a simple GUI to > pdftk, and packaged it for Debian. Soon pdftk (which attracted my > attention because of its uncommon combination of C++ and java) was at > risk of being thrown out from Debian because of serious bugs. I fixed > them and adopted the package 2009. I had to replace upstream until > middle of last year, when a new version was released including lots of > my patches from the Debian package. Shortly after this, I could obtain > the DM status. > > As I use vim and LaTex often and was annoyed with the bugs in the > vim-latexsuite package, I prepared a QA-upload of it in 2009 and then > started to maintain it. > > Since April this year, I maintain additionally the orphaned ketchup > package (a tool to download vanilla kernels). After some new upstream > versions and many patches, the package is now usable again and has some > new features. > > Beside maintaining my packages, I prepared some QA- and NMU-uploads > (fig2sty, netstat-nat, duma, opencryptoki,...) and attended bug > squashing parties. > > I helped to prepare Munich's (final not successful) bid to Debconf11 in > 2009. > > For future Debian contributions, I am interested in QA work and > sponsoring packages. Since I study physics, contributing to the > packaging of scientific software in one of the teams or as co-maintainer > would make sense, too. 3. Philosophy and Procedures ----------------------------- Johann 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. Johann committed to uphold the SC and DFSG in his Debian work and accepts the DMUP. 4. Tasks and Skills ------------------- Johann has a good understanding of the technical side of Debian. Johann is maintainer of pdftk, pdfchains, vim-latexsuite and ketchup. All packages are in good shape. Johann also answered my other questions regarding T&S without problems. 5. Recommendation ----------------- I recommend to accept Johann 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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