I recommend to accept Thibaut Paumard as a Debian Developer. 1. Identification & Account Data -------------------------------- First name: Thibaut Last name: Paumard Key fingerprint: BCAD FB52 B419 98D7 4D99 D98E 9394 5348 E0DC 2840 Account: thibaut
2. Background ------------- Applicant writes: I came to GNU/Linux in 1998 while I was a student. I first bought SuSE CDs at a local retailer's and stayed with this set-up for some time, but I got tired of the package management and configurations systems. At some point near 2003 I decided to try out the Debian thingy all the geeks around were peeping about and I was really amazed by the reliability of the system which would almost always react as I expected, barely ever becoming unbootable after an upgrade (yes, that happened when playing with testing). I soon felt the urge to participate in free software, but had yet no idea how to, although I did write a small PHP library called Zouzou to do basic web content management and which is still available on the web under GPL: http://thibaut.paumard.free.fr/zouzou/. This PHP library was used for the website of a local group of a famous non-governmental organisation. It's completely superseded by better software by know (and it was, perhaps, already at that time). In the meantime, I was also spending most of my day-time coding on a little known interpreter, Yorick, which I found was a perfect match for my research needs. In 2006, Debian package for Yorick was orphaned due to the previous maintainer's key lapsing. He was happy letting me adopt the package, and that's what I did. I got involved in the Yorick community, reporting and sometimes solving bugs there. I also started making Debian packages for Yorick add-ons and plug-ins. I made a couple of scripts (dh_installyorick and update-yorickdoc) to help myself in packaging such add-ons. Last time I counted, I was maintaining 16 source packages for Yorick add-ons (some of them building multiple binary packages). In total, Yorick and it's add-ons counts 17 source packages and 28 binary packages. Although fairly specialized, I know these packages are used on a day-to-day basis by professionals and are ran on computing clusters. Yorick is particularly popular in the French astronomy community. Close colleagues told me they are quite happy with these packages. In addition, I packaged a small utility which seems to be fairly widely used: zerofree, which allows punching holes in disk images used with virtualisation software such as virtualbox, and adopted gimp-gap some time ago. In my professional life, I'm the (co)author of some bits of free software, most notably GYOTO, a general relativistic ray-tracing code which I RFSed a couple of months ago: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640809 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=669016 GYOTO has been conceived as packageable and reusable free software from the ground up. As a library, it could be used for science or educational software as well are in games or other areas needing to model gravitational physics in the relativistic regime. Of course, the runtime utilities are already used in scientific papers. As an uploading DD, I will almost certainly upload this piece of software soon enough. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
