Jared_Dominguez@dell.com wrote: >On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 01:07:54PM -0600, Daniel Jared Dominguez wrote: >>This is my declaration of intent to become a Debian Maintainer >><URL:http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer>. >>I have read the Social Contract, Debian Free Software Guidelines and >>Debian Machine Usage Policy, and I agree with all of them. Currently, I >>maintain the wsl (upload sponsor Don Armstrong) and ledmon (upload >>sponsor Daf Harries) packages as well as help with testing and enabling >>Dell hardware support in Debian and Ubuntu. I also have been a Debian >>user since either slink or potato, although I can't remember exactly >>which. :) I'm looking to take on maintenance of more packages, >>particularly at this time systems management related software, as I >>believe that's currently where I can best contribute. My PGP key >>0xD97B2BA886A10CC0 is signed by Debian Developers Dafydd Harries and >>Kumar Appaiah. After many years as a user, I hope to become a DM. >> >>Regards, >>Jared > >It's been a while since I've followed up on the NM process, so I thought >I should reaffirm my intent after a couple recommendations that I do >this. Since my last declaration of intent, I've also started maintaining >efibootmgr and efivar. I've also cleaned up the open bugs in Debian and >Ubuntu for these. > >Additionally, since 2011, I've contributed five different major releases >of Dell OpenManage System Administrator as well as Dell Deployment >Toolkit and Dell iDRAC Service Module, all ported to Debian and Ubuntu, >which is available on linux.dell.com. (For licensing reasons, I can't >currently get these into non-free.) While I do this porting of Dell >software as part of my job role, where I do all the porting by myself, >as well as being one of the two main people on my team to work on Ubuntu >server support, I also exclusively run Debian and Ubuntu and go through >great lengths to be an advocate for the free software community at Dell. >In less official capacities, I've worked over the past two years to help >the cause of making the GNU/Linux desktop more readily available through >helping Dell's End-User Computing Linux team and contributing to Dell's >Project Sputnik. > >I'm still hoping to increase my contribution to Debian beyond my current >level. I've been a Debian user for about half my life, so I certainly >don't see my desire to contribute decreasing. :) I'm delighted to advocate Jared as a DM. I've been working with him and sponsoring uploads of efibootmgr for quite a while, and more recently its new library dependency efivar. He contacted me initially via #725457 back in October 2013, wanting to help in this area, and has been very helpful ever since. Initially, we were co-maintaining but for the last few months he's been doing all the work and I've just been uploading for him. After a few minor mistakes in the first couple of iterations of efibootmgr, Jared learnt well and has worked hard on improving the packages. He's pushed fixes upstream and built a good relationship there. Right now, I feel like I'm only holding him back waiting on me to upload things! I believe Jared is clearly ready to be a DM here. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com Is there anybody out there?
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