Summary: I recommend accepting Andrew. 2. Identification -----------------
Andrew has a key signed by Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. 3. Philosophy and Procedures ----------------------------- Andrew writes about himself: > I'm a student of computing at Imperial College, London (first year) > unsurprisingly living in London. > I have several reasons to want to volunteer my time, to Free > software in general partly because I feel that users of such > software have a responsibility to the community to help where they > can, and partly because I can see that without a pool of Free > software, commercial interests are going to become increasingly > unfriendly to the end-user (see licenses which timeout, and charging > for updates). I want to help with Debian in particular because it's > not only an extremely good system to work from, and because I happen > to like it, but also because it holds closest to the Free software > principles, and has no commercial interests. I then asked Andrew the example "Philosophy" questions, which were answered satisfactorily. I also asked the more technical NMU etc. questions, which were all answered correctly. 4. Tasks and Skills ------------------- Andrew has packaged blootbot, an IRC bot, and dancer-ircd, which was sponsored by Jordi Mallach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and is currently in incoming. dancer-ircd works fine; I also tried blootbot, but it doesn't install for me because of a bug in libdbd-*-perl. The packages have no major problems and contain some nontrivial stuff like debconf and init scripts, so they certainly show Andrew's knowledge of packaging. Some minor problems I pointed out were promptly fixed by Andrew. His packages are available at http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~aps100/debian/. To summarize, I'm convinced that Andrew understands the Debian philosophy and has the skills to maintain his packages well. I recommend accepting him as Debian maintainer. Falk
