I recommend to accept James Downing Page as a Debian Developer. 1. Identification & Account Data -------------------------------- First name: James Middle name: Downing Last name: Page Key fingerprint: AB23E9A98422889E08C3838CBFECAECBA0E7D8C3 Account: jamespage 2. Background ------------- James is an active Debian Maintainer, and he has been for almost a year and a half. All of the work I saw from him shows solid, good understanding of Debian, both philosophically and technically. I would venture to say James is not so personally outgoing as others, as he limited his answers to technical matters ;-) So instead of the personal history, he jumps right into the technical details of his work. He writes: I maintain 57 packages as part of the Debian Java team; these support three key applications - Jenkins, Lucene/Solr 3 and Zookeeper. I packaged Jenkins (and its numerous new dependencies) from scratch in 2011/2012 (it landed in Ubuntu first); I picked up zookeeper when it was orphaned by its previous maintainer in July 2011; I pickup bugs from both Debian and Ubuntu for both of these packages (+ deps). (...) Yes; the work I did on the Ubuntu Java 6->7 transition still has quite a few outstanding (as Debian has not undertaken this for wheezy): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=openjdk-7-transition;users=ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com (...) I'm a member of the Debian Java team; I've worked with Neils Thykier, Tony Mancill and Damien Raude-Morvan as part of my involvement in that team. Not done a DebConf yet - hope to get to the next one; Occasional participation in ML's (debian-java) and on irc in #debian-java as well. I have some upstream involvement in python-jenkins; I'm active in both Openstack and Ceph communities through my work in Ubuntu. I was very happy with James' answers throughout the AM interview, and I'm somewhat ashamed I did not devote more time to handling the request faster. Anyway, here it goes — I clearly recommend to accept James Downing Page as a Debian Developer.
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