Hello, here comes the report for new developer applicant Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
1. Identification & Background
------------------------------
Check with Keyid 0xEA7CF5AD:
ID Check passed, Key signed from 97 existing DD.
Output from keycheck.sh 0xEA7CF5AD
Syncing Debian Keyrings with rsync from keyring.debian.org
Receiving and checking key
pub 1024D/EA7CF5AD 2005-04-09
Key fingerprint = 96F7 A8CC A87F 0EB8 3497 01B2 5A0A 399A EA7C F5AD
uid Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 52B7487E 2005-07-15 Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
sig! 4743206C 2005-07-15 Joachim Breitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! F1BCDB73 2005-07-15 Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 98FAA0AD 2005-07-15 Roger So <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 5F6D8015 2005-07-15 Kalle Kivimaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 5D64F870 2005-07-15 Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 258D8781 2005-07-16 Michael Bramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 8B8D7663 2005-07-16 Andreas Metzler (private key) <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
sig! 14D4060B 2005-07-16 Sven Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 534584E8 2005-07-17 Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
sig! 29499F61 2005-07-17 Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! F0D7D44A 2005-07-17 Jimmy Kaplowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! E06B3F97 2005-07-18 Mattias Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 1E880A84 2005-07-18 Frans Pop (Debian) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 882A6C4B 2005-07-18 Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
sig! EA2D2C41 2005-07-18 Mattia Dongili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 2EDFE670 2005-07-19 Jarno Elonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 551BE447 2005-07-19 Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 330C4A75 2005-07-19 Martin F. Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 39A8CCE2 2005-07-19 Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
sig! 808D0FD0 2005-07-19 Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 1CF2D62A 2005-07-19 Micah Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! E02FEF11 2005-07-19 Robert Jördens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! C0143D2D 2005-07-20 Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 1880283C 2005-07-20 Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
sig! F1BCDB73 2005-07-20 Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 248AEB73 2005-07-20 Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! DA6AE621 2005-07-20 Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 45F3FBF9 2005-07-21 John Lightsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 307D56ED 2005-07-21 Noèl Köthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! F2833C93 2005-07-21 Eric Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 72D03CB1 2005-07-22 Kenshi Muto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 99E81DA0 2005-07-22 Lior Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 149CDDB2 2005-07-22 Jacobo Tarrio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 67209BDE 2005-07-22 Aigars Mahinovs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 90788E11 2005-07-22 Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
sig! 3CC88C09 2005-07-23 Fumitoshi UKAI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 68AC5746 2005-07-24 Robert Alan Larson (Blars) <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
sig! 964199E2 2005-07-26 Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! E19F188E 2005-07-26 Troy Heber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! EFAA3331 2005-07-26 Dennis Stampfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 1BF8DE0F 2005-07-29 Roland Stigge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 0813569F 2005-07-29 Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
sig! 7244970B 2005-07-29 Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 3FCC2A90 2005-07-31 Amaya Rodrigo Sastre <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
sig! D0EC0723 2005-07-31 Mark Hymers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! B3C281F4 2005-08-01 Alain Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 00D8CD16 2005-08-03 Alexander Schmehl (university) <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
sig! DDC0B70D 2005-08-05 Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 607559E6 2005-08-07 Benjamin Mako Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! C09FD35A 2005-08-23 Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 797EBFAB 2005-08-26 Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 8807529B 2005-08-27 Guido Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! DC47CA16 2005-08-28 David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 12066207 2005-09-04 Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! AC583520 2005-09-07 Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 8E635A5E 2005-09-10 Florian Ragwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! F5D65169 2006-02-03 Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 7E7B8AC9 2006-03-25 Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 19A42D19 2006-05-05 dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 3F3E6426 2006-05-12 Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 4B729625 2006-05-20 Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 6B79D401 2006-05-20 Giunchedi Filippo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 0ED704EA 2006-05-20 Mohammed Adnène Trojette (adn) <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
sig! 4BA401C3 2006-05-20 Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
sig! C671257D 2006-05-20 David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 6FECCDE0 2006-05-20 Santiago Ruano Rincón <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
sig! EA59038E 2006-05-20 Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! D54F0847 2006-05-20 Mark Shuttleworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 6E8169D2 2006-05-21 Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 90E5CA46 2006-05-22 Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! B345BDD3 2006-05-22 Neil McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 71473F66 2006-05-22 Todd Troxell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 29982E5A 2006-05-24 Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 16D970C6 2006-05-28 Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 8BB527AF 2006-05-31 Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 58510B5A 2006-06-01 Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! E8C43461 2006-06-03 Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
sig! CAEAAF03 2006-06-19 Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 16BD77C6 2006-09-09 Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig!2 94C09C7F 2005-07-19 Peter Palfrader
sig!2 9FE8D504 2005-07-21 Tomas Fasth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig!2 2ECF984B 2005-08-18 Alexei Nikolov (passport id) <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
sig!2 5C6153AD 2005-09-03 Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig!2 5706A4B4 2006-05-21 Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig!3 8F068012 2005-07-16 Andrew McMillan (Andrew @ Work)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig!3 88C7C1F7 2005-07-16 Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig!3 5E0577F2 2005-07-19 Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig!3 9B7C328D 2005-08-04 Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig!3 1CDB0FE3 2005-08-27 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
sig!3 EA7CF5AD 2005-04-09 Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
sig! FC05DA69 2005-08-15 Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 78446F26 2005-07-16 Joshua Kwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 25BCD5BF 2006-11-26 Pascal Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 4E2ECA5A 2006-12-26 Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! AC5F700C 2007-05-05 Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig! 096C4DD3 2007-06-13 Keith Packard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sub 2048g/FACAA7C7 2005-04-09
sig! EA7CF5AD 2005-04-09 Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
Let's test if its a version 4 or greater key
Key is ok
Check for key expire stuff
Key has no expiration date set, nothing to check.
Applicant writes:
-----------------
I started working on GNU/Linux with some friends at the university (2000)
on an internal project to control lights in a night club. The code was
GPL...but not really distributed.
Since then my preferred OS is Debian.
After university, I enjoyed reading on IT security, and worked on tiger
(sending patches to the BTS; having nice contacts with Javier; and mostly
working on the upstream project). I also played with rootkit (not writting
them, but detecting them) and sent patches to chkrootkit and KSTAT (but I
did not enjoyed the way they handle patches). At that time I learned a lot
about the kernel internal.
I'm currently working mostly on internationalization, with the nice Debian
French Translation Team. I started with the translation of manpages and
reviewing the files sent to the mailing list. After noticing that the
French translations of the shadow's man pages were completely outdated. I
worked on their translation and was informed about po4a. I got involved
with Martin Quinson and Denis Barbier in the development of po4a and
used the shadow man pages to improve its groff module. I later used
manpages of native packages to improve po4a and advertise its usage for
the translation of manpages. I'm also (ir)regularly running po4a on the
Debian archive to report issues on the manpages.
This is the way I get involved in the packaging of shadow.
Christian Perrier proposed me to form a small team to take over the
maintenance of shadow (IIRC, its previous maintainer (Sam Hartman) had no
time to maintain it anymore).
The first task was to triage the bug reports (It was during the Sarge
freeze; there were something like 200 bugs) and contact the new upstream
(there had been a long time without upstream, which explain all
distributions were using 4.0.3 with different patches). After the Sarge
freeze (or maybe during the freeze) I worked on splitting the large diff
into smaller parts that we could send upstream, and reworked the build
system (using dpatch and then quilt). We had no major issue while working
on shadow. We just reverted one patch, and reapplied it with a transition
(#276419). The current shadow package is now much easier to maintain and
has a much lower number of patches.
My involvement in shadow also pushed me into looking at the code of PAM
and adduser (shadow bugs are often reported to adduser, when they can
sometimes be fixed in PAM;).
I also recently got involved in dpkg (I think Christian mentioned that
there were a lake of man power on dpkg). I mostly worked on the
internationalization bugs.
Since the freeze, I'm mostly trying to have a deeper insight in its code.
My goals on dpkg is to reduce its number of bugs for Etch+1. A first goal
will be to split install-info out of dpkg (some plans have been drawn
during DebConf, but it require a transition from all the packages
distributing info files).
I would also be interested in helping Steve on the PAM maintenance and
having an up to date PAM in Debian.
I'm also now more involved in the i18n team. (I helped during the i18n
meeting in Extremadura, and I'm involved with the i18n.debian.net server)
I'm also packaging pootle and the python-jtoolkit
(the Debian i18n infrastructure will maybe be based on Pootle)
I recently adopted po-debconf and intltool-debin after Denis Barbier
proposed them to me and I'm packaging a small game: sudoku.
2. Philosophy and Procedures
-----------------------------
Nicolas has a excelent understanding of Debians Philosophy and
Procedures. He answered all my Questions about Social Contract,
DFSG, BTS etc. in a good way.
3. Tasks and Skills
-------------------
Nicolas is Maintainer of various packages, including shadow, po-debconf and
po4a mostly sponsored by Christian Perrier. He also answered my other
Questions regarding T&S without problems.
4. Recommendation
-----------------
I recommend to accept him as a Debian Developer.
Account: nekral
Forward-Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
