New Maintainers

2007-02-07 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
This is a summary of the AM reports for week ending February 8th 2007. 7 applicants became maintainers. Reinhard Tartler [...] I made experience as system administration tasks for school, private and fun. I reported (and helped to fix) bugs [1], and I'm reading user mailing lists like deb

New Maintainers

2006-12-31 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
This is a summary of the AM reports for week ending January 1st 2007. 2 applicants became maintainers. Yaroslav Halchenko I have got my first exposure to GNU/Linux and Debian in particular as soon as I came to the USA as an international student to work toward my PhD in Computer Science at

New maintainers

2006-10-31 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
This is a summary of the AM reports for week ending November 1st 2006. 14 applicants became maintainers. Michael Biebl I'm a German guy, born and grown up in a small village in south Germany. I'm 25 years old and currently studying computer science at the University of Karlsruhe and hope t

Re: New Maintainers

2006-10-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hidetaka Iwai I'm a student of the medical department of Hokkaido university. There are three things I want to do for Debian. heh, of course, you've already graduated and became a doctor in the three years waiting for the NM process to complete.

Re: New Maintainers

2006-10-08 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> Mohammed Adnène Trojette *blink* :) > Norbert Preining Ooooh :) welcome. > Hidetaka Iwai > I'm a student of the medical department of Hokkaido university. There > are three things I want to do for Debian. heh, of course, you've already graduated and became a doctor in the three years

New Maintainers

2006-10-02 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
This is a summary of the AM reports for week ending October 1st 2006. 8 applicants became maintainers. Paul Wise I am 26, I live in Perth, Western Australia. I've a BSc, majored in Biotechnology and Environmental Science. At university I was interested in genetics/bioinformatics an

New Maintainers

2006-08-01 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
This is a summary of the AM reports for July 2006. Six applicants became maintainers. Charles Fry After obtaining a B.S. in Computer Science at Brigham Young University, I worked for two years doing distributed systems software development for the WhizBang! Labs. When they closed their door

Re: New Maintainers

2006-07-03 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 6/30/06, Mohammed Adnène Trojette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is a summary of the AM reports for the first semester of 2006. 36 applicants became maintainers. [snip] It's truly astounding to have such great expertise in Debian. Congratulations to all and great thanks to the mighty Debia

New Maintainers

2006-06-30 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
y liked the ease of doing so. When I was starting to set up my own new mailserver, I missed a few packages or found ones which were available to be quite outdated, so I adopted them (or created them). Most of them just are a way of installing my own scripts cleanly and keep them in sync acro

New Maintainers

2005-12-20 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 18 Dec 2005. 2 applicants became maintainers. Matt Brubeck I recently graduated from Harvey Mudd College (in California) with a major was Computer Science and Mathematics. I now work as a programmer in a small web development company in Se

New Maintainers

2005-11-21 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 20 Nov 2005. 7 applicants became maintainers. Russ Allbery I am a senior systems administrator and technical lead for Unix infrastructure services at Stanford University, from which I also have master's and bachelor's degrees on computer

New Maintainers

2005-09-20 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 18 Sep 2005. 1 applicant became a maintainer. James Vega I'm a recent college graduate (Electrical Engineer, minor in Computer Science), working for EMC in the Quality Assurance and Test Automation group. I'm one of the main developers for Su

New Maintainers

2005-09-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 11 Sep 2005. 1 applicant became a maintainer. Loïc Minier I'm 23 years old and I live in France, I live since two years with the woman I love. I completed a french baccalaurat and a german Abitur at the LFA (Deutsch-Franzözisches Gymna

New Maintainers

2005-09-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 04 Sep 2005. 2 applicants became maintainers. Christoph Berg I am a 27 year old computer science PhD student living in Saarbrcken in south-western Germany. I discovered the world of Linux and open source somewhere around 1995 and came to

New Maintainers

2005-08-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 28 Aug 2005. 1 applicant became a maintainer. Kurt Roeckx I have a master degree in electronics option ICT. For my job I'm a programmer in C/C++ and also some assembler. In my spare time I also program software, mostly in C. I'm a Li

New Maintainers

2005-08-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 21 Aug 2005. 4 applicants became maintainers. Khalid Aziz I have been using Linux for almost 6 years and been a Linux kernel developer for 4 years. I have a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Technology from Indian Ins

Re: New Maintainers

2005-08-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ioned in the weekly mail on -newmaint > nor in a "New Maintainers" mail here. This is probably due to the > db.debian.org move in between. > > Has anyone a list of these accounts? Only one, Helen Faulkner , accounted created on 2005-07-15 afaict but for some reason she doesn't s

Re: New Maintainers

2005-08-14 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Frank Lichtenheld [Mon, 15 Aug 2005 02:00:48 +0200]: > I know for a fact that some accounts were created in the last > weeks that were neither mentioned in the weekly mail on -newmaint > nor in a "New Maintainers" mail here. This is probably due to the > db.debian.org m

Re: New Maintainers

2005-08-14 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
wmaint nor in a "New Maintainers" mail here. This is probably due to the db.debian.org move in between. Has anyone a list of these accounts? Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

New Maintainers

2005-08-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 14 Aug 2005. 5 applicants became maintainers. David Moreno Garza My name is David Moreno Garza, I'm 20 years old, studying Computer and Electronic Engineering at UIA, in Mexico City. I started using Debian just a couple of years ago, int

New Maintainers

2005-06-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 29 May 2005. 2 applicants became maintainers. Frans Pop I'm 38 and have a degree in business information technology at university level (but that was a long time ago). Computers have always been a hobby for me (starting with the Sinclair

New Maintainers

2005-05-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 22 May 2005. 11 applicants became maintainers. Thaddeus H. Black I am married eight years and have two small sons. Presently I am pursuing a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Virginia Tech which I mean to complete May 2007. My professi

Re: New Maintainers

2005-04-04 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 04 April 2005 01.28, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Adrian von Bidder > In the near future, Linux in the enterprise (server and desktop) will be > an important part of my $DAYJOB, and I hope that I can do at least part > of my work as a DD there. Well, it didn't work out that way - I'

New Maintainers

2005-04-03 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 3 Apr 2005. 4 applicants became maintainers. Fabian Fagerholm I'm a full-time student and a part-time entrepeneur. My decision to start using GNU/Linux and free software was a conscious choice. After switching from the Amiga family of comp

Re: New Maintainers

2005-03-04 Thread Sam Couter
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:58:34PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > > > > Neil McGovern > > > >He maintains drivel. > > Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No pun intended, I'm sure, but it made me laugh :-) He'll fit in perfectly! -- Sam "Eddie" Couter | mailto:[EMA

Re: New Maintainers

2005-03-03 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:58:34PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > > Neil McGovern > >He maintains drivel. > No pun intended, I'm sure, but it made me laugh :-) regards Andrew -- linux.conf.au 2005 - http://linux.conf.au/ - Birthplace of Tux April 18th to 23rd - http://l

Re: New Maintainers

2005-03-03 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
"Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jay Berkenbilt > >He maintains nip2 and vips7.10. He is also co-maintainer for >libxml-xerces-perl, xerces23, xerces24, xerces25 and xerces26 I also maintain tiff, though this hadn't completely happened yet at the time of my NM applic

New Maintainers

2005-03-02 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
r Matthew Palmer. As far as contributing to Debian is concerned, I would like to start by packaging web-related applications and help improve existing ones. To this end I have submitted a number of patches for wwwconfig-common, which Ola Lundqvist recently applied and uploaded. I am also

New Maintainers

2005-02-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 13 Feb 2005. 5 applicants became maintainers. Peter De Schrijver I have been using linux since the early 90's. I'm a free embedded software developer for a living. I mainly work on kernel ports to new platforms, device drivers and firmwar

New Maintainers

2005-02-07 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 6 Feb 2005. 6 applicants became maintainers. Dave Beckett "I am a developer primarily working on semantic web standards and software development with lots of experience in portability, packaging, auto* tools and developing across higher

New Maintainers

2005-01-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
As when I was young, I was a demo coder on C64 (thus few of you may already know me, like David Weinehall do), I somewhat experienced with assembly too, but I was not followed assembly on other platforms. My plans for Debian is to help out with packages, mainly with server side ones, a

New Maintainers

2005-01-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr
was to improve the package quality from new maintainers and make them familiar with the upload process. I created an import system similar to mini-dinstall in Perl that is compatible with dput and dupload. New maintainers use this storage to make their packages publicly available so that pot

New Maintainers

2005-01-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 02 Jan 2005. 8 applicants became maintainers. Don Armstrong "I am currently a graduate student in the Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology program at UC Riverside. I primarily work on lipid membranes and membrane microdomains (so cal

New Maintainers

2004-08-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 08 Aug 2004. 1 applicant became a maintainer. Jaime Robles "Firstly to say i am a ham radio operator and i am using linux... i think since 96 more or less. Well, since then i have tried to find free software for hams and some times it was

New Maintainers

2004-08-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 01 Aug 2004. 9 applicants became maintainers. Nicolas Duboc "Who am I ? Well, I'm currently a computer science engineer, working in Sophia-Antipolis (on the French Riviera). I installed my first GNU/Linux system (a Slaskware) in 1998 from

New Maintainers

2004-03-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 29 Feb 2004. 4 applicants became maintainers. David Harris David writes, "I'm currently living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I'm 23 years old, and a systems administrator by heredity and trade. I've worked professionally for 5 years, an

New Maintainers

2004-02-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 22 Feb 2004 4 applicants became maintainers. Marc Brockschmidt I'm 17 and live in Bochum, Germany. I go to school and will (hopefully) finish it with my Abitur in ~9 month. I also study computer science at the Fernuniversitaet Hagen (F

New Maintainers

2004-02-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 15 Feb 2004 4 applicants became maintainers. Stephen Gava At this stage of my career I'm a "jack of many trades" I.T. consultant. In the past I have been in technical support (hardware, software and networking) and have been a sysadmin,

New Maintainers

2004-01-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 25 Jan 2004 6 applicants became maintainers. Petra Malik I studied computer science and finished my PhD thesis a few months ago. Currently, I am working as a research assistant at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. I installed my

New Maintainers

2004-01-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 18 Jan 2004 7 applicants became maintainers. Moray Allan I'm currently a PhD student at Edinburgh University, doing research on probabilistic models. As an undergraduate I studied theology at Cambridge University. I was first introduce

New Maintainers

2003-11-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 16 Nov 2003. 3 applicants became maintainers. Emanuele Rocca I am 20 years old, live in Genova, Italy and study Computer Science. I came to the free software in April 2000; my first distro was Caldera, then I switched to Slackware and af

Re: New Maintainers

2003-11-02 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 05:43:38PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 02:35:03AM +1100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > I also spend quite some time co-ordinating with the Gentoo and Red > > Hat XFree86 maintainers to try and keep our patch sets quite in sync > > with each o

Re: New Maintainers

2003-11-02 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 02:35:03AM +1100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Daniel Stone Congratulations. > I also spend quite some time co-ordinating with the Gentoo and Red > Hat XFree86 maintainers to try and keep our patch sets quite in sync > with each other, and share the workload - I set up

New Maintainers

2003-11-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 26 Oct 2003. 3 applicants became maintainers. Joachim Breitner I made contact with debian in April 2002. My hard drive crashed, and I wanted to set up a system as fast as possible to do my e-mails. I had no CD of any OS available in that

New Maintainers

2003-11-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM reppot for Week Ending 19 Oct 2003. 3 applicants became maintainers. Matt Flax I am 29 and have been using Linux since the early nineties. I started with a distro called "Linux Universe". I switched to Debian many years ago and loved it 'cause of its robustness

New Maintainers

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM reppot for Week Ending 28 Sep 2003. 7 applicants became maintainers. Nicolas Bertolissio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm an air traffic controller (one of the guys at the top of the tower at the airport). Computer has been at home for a long time (1983/84). I started

Re: Secure APT (was: Re: New Maintainers)

2003-09-24 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:17:29AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 03:53:39PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:07:42PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:07:03AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > > A great deal of work has

Re: Secure APT (was: Re: New Maintainers)

2003-09-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 03:53:39PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:07:42PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:07:03AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > A great deal of work has been done in this area. See > > > http://bugs.debian.org/203741 for i

New Maintainers

2003-09-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
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 co

Re: Secure APT (was: Re: New Maintainers)

2003-09-22 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:07:42PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:07:03AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > A great deal of work has been done in this area. See > > http://bugs.debian.org/203741 for information. It would be great if you > > would like to help with th

Secure APT (was: Re: New Maintainers)

2003-09-22 Thread Florian Weimer
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:07:03AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > A great deal of work has been done in this area. See > http://bugs.debian.org/203741 for information. It would be great if you > would like to help with this. Has the patch been integrated into CVS? I think so (but the bug repor

Re: New Maintainers

2003-09-22 Thread Florian Weimer
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:25:23PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > http://people.debian.org/~ajt/apt-check-sigs > > There's a patch to apt floating around that integrates this checking > properly too. I know that there several implementations of this concept (one is even in the APT CVS, I think),

Re: New Maintainers

2003-09-22 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:56:06AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:15:37PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > Can you elaborate on the reasons why you feel that Debian is not > > suitable for the recipients of these recommendations? > > If you install stable and activat

Re: New Maintainers

2003-09-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:56:06AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > If you install stable and activate convenient security updates via > apt-get, you rely on the integrity of the network (and > security.debian.org, but that's hard to avoid). http://people.debian.org/~ajt/apt-check-sigs There's a

Re: New Maintainers

2003-09-22 Thread Florian Weimer
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:15:37PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Can you elaborate on the reasons why you feel that Debian is not suitable > for the recipients of these recommendations? If you install stable and activate convenient security updates via apt-get, you rely on the integrity of the n

Re: New Maintainers

2003-09-21 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 12:53:20AM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [...] > In addition, it bugs me that we can't recommend Debian > officially at RUS-CERT. Relying on Debian introduces many > risks. Some of them are inherent to the project, some can be

New Maintainers

2003-09-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM Report for Week Ending 14 Sep 2003. 7 applicants became maintainers. Jon Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well, my name is Jon Bernard. I live in Blacksburg Virginia. I am a CS Graduate student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VA Tech). I start

New Maintainers

2003-09-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM Report for Week Ending 07 Sep 2003. 11 applicants became maintainers. Juan Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Juan has been using Debian for 3 years, after switching over from Slackware. He enjoys the free software model as it gives him many opportunities and he likes

New Maintainers

2003-05-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Thorsten Sauter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well, I'm working now since eight years with linux (starting with kernel 1.3.25), and doing more and more work with it. I'm working currently as sysadmin and advise many unix-based systems. I have used many different linux distributions starting

New Maintainers

2003-04-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Stephen is the maintainer of kcdlabel and root-tail. Sean Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spefically, i've been a gnu/linux and user more or less since i decided that i was going to be computer science major, which was about two weeks into my freshman

New Maintainers

2003-02-24 Thread Martin Michlmayr
I installed to learn computer programming in C. Hopefully I'll find time soon to get to grips with C++ and either Perl or Python and start using GTK+. Quite soon after starting programming, I wanted to package my software for Debian, mainly for convenience, and I also put it up f

New Maintainers

2003-02-24 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Devin Carraway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Background: I started with Linux in 1993, in college. I came into it from a background in the WWIV BBS community, which included a largish group of people exchanging modifications to the BBS source; without benefit of the Internet or exposure the free s

Re: Update on "New Maintainers Corner" web page

2000-09-17 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Hi, sorry for delay. In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on "Tue, 12 Sep 2000 21:01:57 +1100", Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:14:46AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > Any ideas what the problem might be? I don't know the detail, but web site generation process did hav

Re: new maintainers

2000-01-01 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 10:28:01AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 10:51:40PM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I joined Debian at May 23, this year (1999). I know at least one > > new maintainer who joined at June, IIRC. Old New Maintainer Team > > did work at that

Re: new maintainers

1999-12-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 10:51:40PM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote: > Hi. > > I joined Debian at May 23, this year (1999). I know at least one > new maintainer who joined at June, IIRC. Old New Maintainer Team > did work at that time. You must have squeaked in under the wire. I applied in late May o

Re: new maintainers

1999-12-31 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Hi. I joined Debian at May 23, this year (1999). I know at least one new maintainer who joined at June, IIRC. Old New Maintainer Team did work at that time. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, at Fri, 31 Dec 1999 11:53:10 +1100 (EST), on Re: new maintainers, Anand Kumria <[EMAIL

Re: new maintainers

1999-12-31 Thread Anand Kumria
ts of maintainers not properly handling their bug > reports, then clearly Debian needs some new maintainers. There is a > very substantial list of packages that are either orphaned or whose > maintainers have requested that someone else take up the slack. There > is a very large

new maintainers

1999-12-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
, and bemusedly wondering what will happen to Debian if the current situation persists for too long. If there are lots of maintainers not properly handling their bug reports, then clearly Debian needs some new maintainers. There is a very substantial list of packages that are either orphaned or whose m