I recommend to accept Nicolas Dandrimont as a Debian Developer. 1. Identification & Account Data -------------------------------- First name: Nicolas Middle name: - Last name: Dandrimont Key fingerprint: 791F12396630DD71FD364375B8E5087766475AAF Account: olasd 2. Background ------------- In 2007, when I entered ENS Cachan[3], I joined CRANS[4], a student group that manages the whole network in the residences there. The group uses only Free Software to manage the network and provide a ton of services (mail, web hosting, IPTV, wiki, newsgroups, and, well, Internet access for 1200 people). All the servers were running Debian (save one historically running OpenBSD to serve as an IPSEC gateway for the WiFi the group provided on campus). I naturally went back to Debian when I bought a new laptop, and I've been using it ever since. [3] http://www.ens-cachan.fr/ [4] http://www.crans.org/ CRANS is a "nest" of Debian Developers (well, I know of three, Cyrille Chepelov, Vincent Bernat, and Stéphane Glondu), and in this environment, I learned my way through Debian Packaging: there are a few custom-built packages and backports that are needed to keep the infrastructure running. I started packaging for Debian proper with ramond, a tool to kill off rogue IPv6 Router Avertisements I installed at to save the network's IPv6 connectivity from lousy windows behavior. Afterwards, I took a mostly "scratch an itch" approach: I joined the OCaml team when I wanted to package newer upstream versions of some libraries for a robotics project at ENS, I joined the Python team to help out with packaging a library (python-simpy) I needed to write a simulator during an internship, etc. I became a Debian Maintainer thanks to my work in the OCaml team, although I haven't had the opportunity to use those privileges much, my packages being relatively quitet upstream and my packaging teams being (very) reactive. More recently (since the beginning of 2012), I have become involved in the mentors.debian.net project. I started by submitting a few patches to enhance the UI (and improve the underlying backend code). Arno Töll gave me commit access, then the admin right on the server to be able to push my changes directly. This culminated in the summer of 2012: I mentored two students' projects for Google Summer of Code, with Arno, Stuart Prescott and Asheesh Laroia as co-mentors. Although the code hasn't been merged so far, I consider it a success as both of the students are sticking around and seem willing to help with the ongoing efforts. A few weeks ago, zack asked me to become a GSoC organization admin for Debian, and I (foolishly? :D) accepted. As my packages are relatively quiet upstream, I can focus on that for now. I intend to keep on working on mentors.debian.net, improving the situation for those new contributors who have to wait for months to even get a response on their sponsorship requests. And, knowing myself, I'll certainly work to sponsor some of those packages once I get upload rights. One recent area of interest for me is Perl packaging: I have commit access to the upstream repository of Slic3r[5], and I have been meaning to package the related supporting libraries for a while (while CPAN is nice, giving users distribution packages is always nicer). [5] http://www.slic3r.org/ 3. Philosophy and Procedures ----------------------------- Nicolas Dandrimont 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. Nicolas Dandrimont committed to uphold the SC and DFSG in his Debian work and accepts the DMUP. 4. Tasks and Skills ------------------- Nicolas Dandrimont has a good understanding of the technical side of Debian. All packages are in good shape. Nicolas Dandrimont also answered my other questions regarding T&S without problems and provided patches for RC bugs. 5. Recommendation ----------------- I recommend to accept Nicolas Dandrimont as a Debian Developer. I hearby also want to publicly apologize for being inactive as AM in the last two month. Nicolas, i am very sorry for that. Working with you was a great pleasure (and hopefully will also be in future). Cheers, Martin -- Martin Zobel-Helas <zobel@debian.org> Debian System Administrator Debian & GNU/Linux Developer Debian Listmaster http://about.me/zobel Debian Webmaster GPG Fingerprint: 6B18 5642 8E41 EC89 3D5D BDBB 53B1 AC6D B11B 627B
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