Author: deryck Date: 2005-09-04 22:18:19 +0000 (Sun, 04 Sep 2005) New Revision: 804
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba-web&rev=804 Log: Add news item on James joining them Team (procrastination seemed to hit James and I both especially hard while trying to get this done. :-) Also, put James in alphabtical order on the team page. deryck Added: trunk/news/team/jpeach_welcome.html Modified: trunk/team/index.html Changeset: Added: trunk/news/team/jpeach_welcome.html =================================================================== --- trunk/news/team/jpeach_welcome.html 2005-09-02 13:44:44 UTC (rev 803) +++ trunk/news/team/jpeach_welcome.html 2005-09-04 22:18:19 UTC (rev 804) @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ + <h3><a name="jpeach_welcome">Samba Team Welcomes New Team Member James Peach</a></h3> + + <div class="article"> + <p>The Samba Team welcomes new Samba Team member, James Peach. + James has worked in the SGI's Australian engineering team for a number + of years, prior to which he worked on automated network discovery at + Avaya Labs. At SGI he has worked on numerous file serving and networking + projects including POSIX compliance, naming and PAM, NFS and NAS server + management and monitoring.</p> + + <p>Nowadays he spends most of his time on Samba, splitting his time between + helping SGI customers with Samba problems and making sure that Samba + runs well on scalable InfiniteStorage NAS systems. His main Samba focus + is on performance and scalability, integration of Samba within a storage + software stack, and file server management.</p> + + <p>The following is taken from a recent email interview with James:</p> + + <ul class="interview"> + <li> + <p><b>When did you first start to take in interest in hacking + on Samba?</b></p> + + <p><em>There was some internal reorganisation and maintenance of the SGI Samba + product was assigned to my group which is involved in various storage + and fileserving projects.</em></p> + + <p><em>After some discussions with customers, we realised that there were areas + where we needed better Samba integration with the SGI software suite and + areas where we needed to provide some performance improvements. This led + to me becoming the SGI Samba maintainer on a most-time basis (that's + full-time minus all the other stuff I have to do). </em></p> + </li> + + <li> + <p><b>You've got a long history of feeding patches to Team members before + joining the Team. What areas in Samba have you worked on in the past?</b></p> + + <p><em>I started with a set of trivial patches that were specific to the IRIX + environment and toolchain and I tend to fix IRIX build breakages when + they occasionally happen. I'd like to think that my crufty directory + traversal patch prompted Jeremy to fix the long standing performance + problems enumerating large directories. I do need to sit down and push + some of my patch backlog into svn though.</em></p> + </li> + + <li> + <p><b>Now that you're a part of the Team, what will your work focus on?</b></p> + + <p><em>Probably much the same. Within SGI we are really interested in + scalability, so I'll be continuing to look at scaling Samba on high cpu + count Altix and Origin servers.</em></p> + + <p><em>I'd like to be able to do more to increase the observability of Samba, + so I'm planning on putting out an updated + <a href="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp";>PCP agent</a> soon, but that's really the + tip of the iceberg. I'd also like to do more work in creating stable interfaces + that other projects can use to develop software on top of Samba.</em></p> + </li> + + <li> + <p><b>How has being a part of the Samba Team for for the last month changed + your life? ;-)</b></p> + + <p><em>Not very much so far. I'm trying to be a bit more conscientious about + following the mailing lists.</em></p> + </li> + </ul> + + <p>For others interested in following Samba development (or maybe in + helping with Samba development), + <a href="https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba-technical";>[email protected]</a> + and <a href="/samba/irc.html">#samba-technical</a> is the best place to + catch James and the rest of the Samba Team.</p> + + </div> + + Modified: trunk/team/index.html =================================================================== --- trunk/team/index.html 2005-09-02 13:44:44 UTC (rev 803) +++ trunk/team/index.html 2005-09-04 22:18:19 UTC (rev 804) @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ <li><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Jean Francois Micouleau</a></li> <li><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Lars Müller</a></li> +<li><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">James Peach</a></li> <li><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Tim Potter</a></li> <li><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Brian Roberson</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.richardsharpe.com";>Richard Sharpe</a></li> @@ -76,7 +77,6 @@ <li><a href="http://samba.org/~tridge/";>Andrew Tridgell</a></li> <li><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Jelmer Vernooij</a></li> <li><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Michael Warfield</a></li> -<li><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">James Peach</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr>
