This is a summary of the AM Report for Week Ending 21 Sep 2003. 6 applicants became maintainers.
Jay Bonci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well I started in the industry a few years ago as a QA engineer for Microsoft at 18. After getting out of there, and moving on, I started my own business to do consulting work. Through a somewhat weird chain of events, I fell in with a website Everything2.com, where I am currently the lead maintainer. This expanded out to do work on the everything engine (http://sf.net/projects/everydevel), a mature web development platform that currently powers many different websites, and is itself extensible through different plugins. (This is one place where the debian .deb architecture has really helped us to ease deployment). It has definitely broadened my experience in Free Software and has entrenched me in it and the broad world of Perl. And, for the most part, I've loved every minute of it (save those times that apache simply won't start, or perl unexpectedly segfaults). As far as my bio, I'd like you to tack on that as of now, I am an independent consultant for VA software (that is my job). Jay maintains libcarp-assert-perl, libclass-factory-util-perl, libgeo-metar-perl, libio-zlib-perl, libipc-run-perl, libipc-sharedcache-perl, liblog-agent-perl, liblog-agent-rotate-perl, libmodule-build-perl, libmodule-info-perl, libnet-scp-expect-perl, libpod-coverage-perl, libsub-uplevel-perl, libtest-builder-tester-perl, libtest-mockobject-perl, and libtie-regexphash-perl. Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adam said that Debian was the first Linux distribution he used. Adam is interested in Debian because "I found Debian to be the most liberal distribution available. It contains the greatest amount of free software and it is a dynamic distribution. No one person dictates on what should and should not be included. " Adam wants to package software for Debian and to fix bugs. Adam maintains gtml, jikes, jikes-contrib, libhoard, libjsw, lpe, memprof, mysqlcc, xshipwars, xshipwars-images-st, xshipwars-sounds-st, and yiff. Quôc Peyrot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ok, I'm Quôc Peyrot (Quôc is my first name just in case you are wondering ;) ) and I am packaging with Julien Lemoine a bunch of GPL software about automatic program transformation (see cwi-* package); these programs are from different R&D Laboratory (the main is CWI http://www.cwi.nl/). Unfortunately they are often difficult to install and we found, with Julien Lemoine, to be useful to make package in order to help other people to use these wonderful tools. Some bugs were encountered, fixed and reported to authors. There are a lot of package to make to provide all their "program transformation tool", and as I use intensively these tools we figured out I can help maintaining these packages. I am co-maintainer of all cwi-* package (and maintainer of cwi-boxenv, my first package) which can be found in unstable release. About my how I came to Linux: in my school (EPITA, same as Julien Lemoine) we are *nix oriented. In January 2001 I entered in LRDE (EPITA Research & Development Laboratory) which is clearly free software oriented. All computer are using Debian and I have the pleasure to work in this laboratory with some "free community renowned" men: Akim Demaille (who maintains Autoconf, bison, a2ps ...), Guillaume-Alexandre Duret-Lutz (who maintains automake), Didier Verna (xemacs, curve ...). In this laboratory we are working on Olena, a generic image processing library under GPL liscence. As you can see, since 1 year and half, I'm trying to be involve more and more in free software community and as you can expect I really like free software philosophy, and I would like to continue to increase my help in this community. You can see our laboratory work and member at http://www.lrde.epita.fr (if it doesn't work try http://www.lrde.epita.fr:800/ since we are encountered some connection problems. and http://www.lrde.epita.fr//cgi-bin/twiki/view (or http://www.lrde.epita.fr:800/cgi-bin/twiki/view) Quôc maintains cantus, gnupod-tools, gtkpod, strategoxt Thomas Scheffczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> About myself: I'm 37 years old, married and have two children. We live together in a small village near Mainz, the capitol of 'Rheinland-Pfalz' a kind of Country in Germany. As I mentioned before do I work in the University of Mainz. Because of security concerns the head office of the university has an own network and is connected with the other parts of the university only over a firewall system. Christoph Martin, the debian developer who sign my key, actually is the computer department chief here in the head office. Starting with the first firewall years ago he introduced debian and since then it was and is used for all our unix systems except for the big database servers. About six years ago I started to work with unix. At first only as a user, later as a database-developer and about three years ago also as an administrator. First I maintained only single services like dhcp or dns. Later I learned to setup and maintain complete servers. (I have to learn a lot more, but at least now I know that and what I have to learn ;-) Right now I'm responsible for data an network security, for the network itself with it's switches and routers, for the mail system and especially for our firewall systems. A relatively new assignment are roadwarriors and their secure connection to our network. I think, I don't have to mention that we use debian for all this tasks. I learned so much and took so much from the community that I wanted to give something back to it. A couple of months ago I noticed that the debian packet of the mason firewall based on an old version of mason that didn't support iptables. On the homepage of mason was a new version available. Christoph Martin asked the maintainer of this packet, Jeff Liquia if he has plans to update the package. He told him that he was very busy and that mason is a low priority thread for him. Then we asked Jeff about a NMU and he said this would be ok. He also said that even when he has no time to update mason he don't want to see this package orphaned, but if we want to maintain the package it would be perfectly ok for him. In this situation Christoph Martin asked me, if I would like to maintain mason. I would like. And because of this I apply to become a debian developer. Thomas maintains annoyance-filter, mason and udptunnel Michael Schiansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> back in 96 i finished my apprenticeship at siemens in Munich. there i was taught in SCO unix and sinix. [...] since more than a year i use debian potato, woody (as it was testing) and now sarge. I'm responsible admin on about 10 servers and workstation. some of them in use for more than 1000 days. they are located at home, at university, at client-side and at an ISP. i want to join debian to give back something that others gave me: a chance to get high quality software freely. Michael maintains mp3c, tardy, and xcb Arthur de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm a software engineer at West Consulting in the Netherlands (www.west.nl). I finished my computer science study at Delft University of Technology (www.its.tudelft.nl) about two years ago. During my study I first installed Linux (Slackware 1.0 I believe) around 1995. I upgraded from a.out to elf by hand (recompiling gcc, libc and all the tools by hand), horribly trashing my setup. I later removed it and used windows a couple of years. A couple of years back I was looking to reinstall Linux and came across Debian. We already had Debian (bo or hamm, I'm not sure) running on De Koornbeurs (a youth organisation I'm involved with, see www.koornbeurs.nl) and were very pleased with it. I liked the non-commercial attitude very much and was very pleased with the technical aspects (packaging, smooth upgrades, open structure, etc). After using Debian some time I became more involved with it. Reporting bugs, following debian news, occasionally helping out on debianhelp.org, etc. I also develop software professionally and privately and as an experiment started packaging new stuff as debian packages. Arthur maintains cvsd, and randomize-lines Thanks to Pascal Hakim for compiling this listing. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
