Re: ITJTDPT (Intend to join the Debian Perl Team ;-)
Hi there,
2010/2/11 Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org>:
> Hi,
>
> I already attended some Debian Perl meetings at DebConf 9 and lurk on
> this list since somewhen back in 2007. Since 10 days, I'm a DD
> (account name "abe") and I currently have one lib*-perl[1] package
> which should get a packaging update. So I thought, now is the right
> time to join the Debian Perl Team. :-)
>
> [1] http://packages.debian.org/libxml-rss-simplegen-perl
Welcome! It's always nice to have more DDs on the team :)
This page may be useful for you to give you an idea of how we operate:
http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/Welcome
Please do inject your package into our repository (all DDs
automatically have access). Some useful pages might be:
- Our Package Entropy Tracker (so we know what is new, and to help us
coordinate): http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/pet.cgi
- Our Alioth project page: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-perl/
(please send a request to join this)
- How to adopt a package under the group umbrella:
http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/howto/adopt.html
More resources can be found here: http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/
>
> A little bit about my Perl background:
>
> After Turbo Pascal and several Lisp dialects (Scheme, Emacs Lisp,
> Common Lisp), Perl was more or less the third higher programming
> language I learned (not counting bourne shell scripting and PostScript
> ;-).
>
Postscript, eh? I'm impressed :)
> As a student at university I gave Perl beginners courses although I
> neither knew about references in Perl back then nor had I understood
> the function of the shebang line at that time. ;-)
>
> I started writing CGI scripts in Perl, wrote website frameworks with
> WML (the Engelschall WML) and Embperl. This also got me my first job
> as web and ftp admin, where I came in contact with ancient Perl 4
> stuff as well as object oriented Perl. (Not in the same scripts of
> course. ;-)
>
> My first "big" Perl application was wApua[2], a WML (the WAP WML)
> browser based on Perl/Tk, libwww-perl and a raped HTML::Parser I
> needed because there was no free WAP WML browser for SunOS 4.x. :-)
> wApua was also one of my first Debian packages.
>
> [2] http://fsinfo.noone.org/~abe/wApua/
> http://packages.debian.org/wapua
>
> During my time at ECOS I also once gave a talk at YAPC::Europe about
> Embperl.
>
> After university I worked for nearly five years at ECOS, the Embperl
> forge. There I really learned Perl (from Apache.pm co-author Gerald
> Richter), got in deeper contact with Embperl, mod_perl, ActiveState
> Perl, memory leaks in perl scripts (BTDT ;-), etc.
>
> Another thing I learned during my time at ECOS was to read foreign
> perl code, partially by enjoying JAPH and other perl fun stuff.
>
> Nowadays I consider Perl being my favourite and therefore primary
> programming language. And if my brain dumps pseudo code, it's usually
> executable with a Perl interpreter. ;-)
>
> I live now in Zurich and work at ETH Zurich as system administrator.
> And of course, I grok Perl there, too. I even still do some Embperl
> here. And I'm a member of Zurich.pm -- one out of three. ;-)
>
> I think this should be enough Perl related qualities (if not too many
> ;-) for becoming a member of the Debian Perl Team.
>
> Regards, Axel
> --
> # Meh, Perl 5.6 was more fun because $$ wasn't readonly. Used $$=42 before. :)
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