Report for new developer applicant Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
0. Recommendation ----------------- I strongly recommend to accept Thiemo Seufer as new Debian Developer. 1. Identification & Background ------------------------------ Check with Keyid 0xD14235A0 ID Check passed, Key signed by at least one existing Debian Developer, Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (and many others, as you can see). Output from 'gpg --check-sigs 0xD14235A0': pub 1024D/D14235A0 2002-06-03 Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig! 3F3E6426 2002-06-09 Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig! 75BE8097 2002-06-10 Florian Lohoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig! A3E45D66 2002-06-11 Alexander Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig! 2A30D729 2004-02-20 Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig!2 DFE80FB2 2002-06-10 Martin Waitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig!2 7E7B8AC9 2002-06-10 Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig!2 10FA4CD1 2004-02-20 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig!2 515F9B74 2004-02-20 Konstantinos Margaritis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig!3 F2BC48C5 2002-07-15 Cord Beermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig!3 68FD549F 2002-06-11 Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig!3 5AF4C462 2002-07-15 Cord Beermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig!3 84AD676C 2004-02-20 Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig!3 817A996A 2004-02-22 Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig!3 C09FD35A 2004-02-26 Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig!3 D14235A0 2002-06-03 Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sub 1024g/EA15DFAD 2002-06-03 sig! D14235A0 2002-06-03 Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> According to `gpg -vv`, his key is a version 4 key and thus valid according to the definition for new keys in the Debian keyring. Applicant writes: --8<-------------------------------------------------------->8--- Well, I started to use Linux years ago (with 0.99.pl13) because I wnated to write a program larger than 640k. Linux was free (as in beer), it allowed to use the whole 4MB of my system and had also a free compiler. It took some more years until I started to help with the development of free (as in speech) software, this came when I found interest in the MIPS achitecture. In course of that, I became upstream maintainer of MIPS binutils, and contribute patches for kernel/toolchain/glibc when the bugs get to annoying. I also took over the delo (DEcstation boot LOader) upstream and improved it substantially. For Debian, I'm primarily interested in the mips/mipsel ports, where Debian is IMHO the most viable distribution. To improve it, I started to help the debian-installer effort, concentrating on the mips port. It is now in a nearly-releasable state, but lacks daily built test image and a few other things which need to be done by a DD. --8<-------------------------------------------------------->8--- Searching Google for him affirms the picture I had of him: A lot of mails regarding the mips-port (including own code, patches, ...) and does not return anything offensive. However, I'm not a mips-users myself, and therefore asked joeyh for his experiences with Thiemo for the d-i; also, tbm forwarded me his opinion he sent to Thiemos first AM. Both mails are very positive and are attached to this report. 2. Philosophy and Procedures ---------------------------- Thiemo demonstrated an excellent understanding of Debian's Philosophy and Procedures. He answered all Questions about the Social Contract, the DFSG, the BTS etc. and had nearly no problems with it. He showed that he really knows what he talks about. 3. Tasks and Skills ------------------- Thiemo is maintainer of genisovh, linux-kernel-di-mips and linux-kernel-di-mipsel and seems to become maintainer of the mips(el) kernel packages. All packages are present in the linux archive, and seem to be - as far as I could judge - to be in good shape. Thiemo has also direct commit rights to the d-i, and fixed some issues there. Please see joeyhs mail for details. He also answered my questions regarding T&S without problems. 3a. Personal comment -------------------- Thiemo responded to my emails in a good, precise and fast way. During the time, it became quite clear that he has (much) more knowledge than required to go through. Also, his whole way to deal with the questions, to answer mails etc. tells me that he is one of the people we should like to see as part of Debian. 4. Account information ---------------------- Preferred account name: ths Address to forward E-Mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C
