For the third month in a row, I am proud to announce that a new person has been accepted as an official Debian Maintainer. After Xavier Grave[1] and Stephen Leake[2], Reto Buerki has now been granted permission to upload new versions of his packages to the official Debian archive.
Reto started Debian packaging when he adopted opentoken from me in May 2008 (almost two years ago now). He has since then added several new packages to Debian, the most significant being polyorb which took more than a year to reach unstable(!). Reto has worked very well in collaborative maintenance with Xavier Grave and myself on polyorb and demonstrated excellent technical skills; he even took to lead the maintenance of this very complex package. I trust he will use his new Debian Maintainer powers wisely and eventually grow into a full Debian Developer. Here is a list of packages that Reto currently maintains: ahven -- Unit test library for Ada (new in 5.0 "Lenny") libalog -- Logging framework for Ada (new in 5.0 "Lenny") pcscada -- Ada bindings to PC/SC middleware (new in 6.0 "Squeeze") polyorb -- Multiple-personality middleware for Ada (new in 6.0 "Squeeze") Reto also maintained the OpenToken package for a while before entrusting maintenance to Stephen Leake. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-ada/2010/03/msg00000.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-ada/2010/04/msg00004.html Please join me in sending well-deserved thanks and congratulations to Reto. -- Ludovic Brenta. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/f234d0cde2b7fbb48d061aba3c336...@localhost
