1. Identification & Account Data
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First name: Roland
Last name: Dreier
Key fingerprint: 3779 F472 BB84 DFE1 A650 C304 DDC7 ECFB B4F8 3169
Account: rbd
Forward email: roland@digitalvampire.org
ID check passed, key signed by 2 existing developers:
Output from keycheck.sh:
pub 4096R/B4F83169 2010-05-04
Key fingerprint = 3779 F472 BB84 DFE1 A650 C304 DDC7 ECFB B4F8 3169
uid Roland Dreier <roland@digitalvampire.org>
sig! 95861109 2011-10-28 Ben Hutchings (DOB: 1977-01-11)
sig!2 3EFB79EF 2011-02-05 Andrew Pollock <me@andrew.net.au>
sig!3 B4F83169 2010-05-04 Roland Dreier <roland@digitalvampire.org>
sig!3 B4F83169 2010-05-04 Roland Dreier <roland@digitalvampire.org>
uid Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
sig!3 B4F83169 2010-05-04 Roland Dreier <roland@digitalvampire.org>
uid Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>
sig!3 B4F83169 2011-02-03 Roland Dreier <roland@digitalvampire.org>
uid Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
sig!3 B4F83169 2010-05-04 Roland Dreier <roland@digitalvampire.org>
sub 4096R/88138205 2010-05-04
sig! B4F83169 2010-05-04 Roland Dreier <roland@digitalvampire.org>
Key is OpenPGP version 4 or greater.
Key has 4096 bits.
Valid "e" flag, no expiration.
Valid "s" flag, no expiration.
2. Background
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Applicant writes:
My first exposure to free software was about 20 years ago when I
started using GNU emacs. The ethos of software freedom immediately
appealed to me, and I enthusiastically started using Linux as soon as
I got a PC capable of running it in the mid-90s. I did a fair amount
of development (related to my mathematics research) under Linux while
in grad school, and after grad school I started doing development
under Linux as my job.
A bit more than 10 years ago, I started working at Topspin
Communications, where we developed InfiniBand networking gear. As
part of this job, I did quite a bit of work on our complete embedded
Linux OS and in particular I ended up writing (with many contributions
from others) an InfiniBand stack for Linux. For both pragmatic (it's
no fun maintaining that stack on your own, and it's painful to build
it for every distribution) and ethical reasons, I pushed hard to
release the complete stack as free software.
That effort culminated in merging the kernel side of the stack into
the upstream kernel starting in December 2004 and releasing related
userspace libraries such as libibverbs and libmthca under free
software licenses. I've continued to work as the mainline kernel
maintainer for that stack and in general I've been closely involved
with the upstream kernel community, with well over 500 commits to
Linus's tree (counted since the start of the git era made such
statistics easy to get). I've also continued to develop and maintain
upstream source for the related libraries I wrote.
Also a bit more than 10 years ago, I settled on Debian as my favorite
distribution and it has been my primary development platform ever
since. Of course I want to make the Linux InfiniBand/RDMA stack as
accessible to users as I can, so packaging my related libraries and
tools for Debian was a natural step for me. My main interest in
Debian is to continue to maintain my packages, and contribute to the
packaging of related packages.
In particular I would like to work with both the Debian packagers and
the OpenFabrics community to reduce and eventually eliminate the
Debian dependence on OFED and move to packaging upstream releases.
Google says:
Active Linux Infiniband maintainer, known to Launchpad, active community
member.
3. Philosophy and Procedures
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Roland 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. Roland committed to uphold the SC and DFSG
in his Debian work and accepts the DMUP.
4. Tasks and Skills
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I did not feel it necessary to ask Roland the formal NM Tasks and
Skills questions. He has been maintaining a collection of library
packages within Debian for over 5 years, as well as being heavily
involved in upstream kernel development. These packages are all in
good shape.
5. Recommendation
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I recommend to accept Roland Dreier as a Debian Developer.
J.
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