-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Auth-Key: nmauth520f801201e5933c9bbb9436a8391e04 Applicant: Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Why do you advocate this person? (please provide a 5-10 line summary). You are encouraged to take questions such as the following into account but you're not limited to answering these: - How have they contributed to Debian already? - What do they intend to do for Debian in the future? - How do they interact with others, such as users and other developers? - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contribution: The applicant saw my RFH open for OpenSceneGraph and offered to help (about 6 months ago), initially I advised him to start helping Debian with simpler packages, however he persevered and produced an initial release of a new upstream version fairly quickly after his initial contact (and 3 or 4 since that in subsequent releases). He did many things, and more importantly, all in the right direction, requiring few corrections or help from me: revisiting patches and dropping some, opening bugs upstream, improving debian specific stuff (writing more accurate descriptions, standards versions, debhelper compatibility, watch file, quelling lintian warnings), fixing nuisances with man pages, and closing several bugs in the process. He also created a new binary package to alleviate the load on servers with arch-independent data, and removed a package of documentation which was left empty in the later versions. Interaction: We (the applicant, me), along with Alberto Luaces, collaborated effectively to discuss problems coming from upstream with SOVERSIONS, how to best fix the issues raised, etc.; and the last versions of OSG were created by Alberto Luaces also based partly on the job of the applicant (and with hints from him). Future: He told me about his interest in becoming a Debian Developer in order to, apart from continuing improving OpenSceneGraph, update another packages very outdated with which he has experience (the upstream project); I'll be sponsoring him for that too if he doesn't manage to get permissions to do so before next freeze. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkwaDBIACgkQ8dLMyEl6F23hKgCeMJcOu5D7vUpZUX7Ro6Tt32Kf qi8AnRy9hb9IhxUuwQ1pGSjJkBnwPPxI =5cGb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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