Summary: Accept 1. Background ------------- David writes: > At age 5 I taught myself to program on an Apple II GS and since then > have been exploring the art of computing. About five or six years > ago I got my hands on a magazine distributed with a (now) primitive > version of Slackware and worked up the courage to try it out. In > those in between years, I had become a Windows guru and as I learned > more, I saw more and more fundamental flaws in Windows as a > computing platform. Aside from the obvious benefits of a "free as in > speech" system, Debian's "we won't hide problems" mantra appealed > strongly to me, since as a programmer I knew better than to blindly > accept badly written software. After a few years of using Linux on > and off, toying with the various distributions, I finally decided to > use Linux full time and at that point I felt I had enough experience > to choose Debian as my distribution. Since then I have implemented > Debian in a number of different environments (school computer labs, > specialized applications, Linux servers for clients, etc) and have > converted 5 other friends to Debian exclusively (also exposing > handfuls of others to Debian and Linux in general).
> Also if you're bored and want a less techie intro about me, it's at > http://dap.webhop.net/me.php 2. Identification ----------------- David's GPG key is signed by Viral Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (a.k.a [EMAIL PROTECTED]) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gpg --check-sigs F90FFFE5 pub 1024D/F90FFFE5 1999-02-23 David Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig! F90FFFE5 2000-05-28 David Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig! 6E25E283 2002-05-11 Viral Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uid David Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig! F90FFFE5 2000-05-28 David Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig! 6E25E283 2002-05-11 Viral Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uid David Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig! F90FFFE5 1999-02-23 David Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig! 6E25E283 2002-05-11 Viral Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uid David Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig! 6E25E283 2002-05-11 Viral Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig! F90FFFE5 1999-03-03 David Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uid David Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig! 6E25E283 2002-05-11 Viral Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig! F90FFFE5 1999-08-03 David Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sub 2048g/592F9FA7 1999-02-23 sig! F90FFFE5 1999-02-23 David Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 22 signatures not checked due to missing keys 3. Philosophy and Procedures ---------------------------- David agrees to uphold the Social Contract and the DFSG and accepts the DMUP. David had no difficulty answering the questions I asked regarding philosophy and procedures. 4. Tasks and Skills ------------------- David has packaged libdbi, a database-independent abstraction layer in C (similar to perl's DBI/DBD), of which he is co-author. He did an exceptional job of packaging this library, despite the frustration of changing postgresql versions and other complications. David also packaged libdbi-drivers, a package of 3rd party drivers for libdbi, currently containing only libdbd-sqlite (for SQLite), without the use of debhelper. He did an excellent job of this. I have sponsored both of these packages. 5. Recommendation ----------------- I recommend that David Parker be accepted as a Debian Developer. Preferred login: dap Forwarding address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Duncan Findlay
