I recommend to accept Nicolas Dandrimont as a Debian Developer.
1. Identification Account Data
First name: Nicolas
Middle name: -
Last name: Dandrimont
Key fingerprint: 791F12396630DD71FD364375B8E5087766475AAF
Account: olasd
2. Background
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In 2007, when I entered ENS Cachan[3], I joined CRANS[4], a student
group that manages the whole network in the residences there. The group
uses only Free Software to manage the network and provide a ton of
services (mail, web hosting, IPTV, wiki, newsgroups, and, well, Internet
access for 1200 people). All the servers were running Debian (save one
historically running OpenBSD to serve as an IPSEC gateway for the WiFi
the group provided on campus). I naturally went back to Debian when I
bought a new laptop, and I've been using it ever since.
[3] http://www.ens-cachan.fr/
[4] http://www.crans.org/
CRANS is a nest of Debian Developers (well, I know of three, Cyrille
Chepelov, Vincent Bernat, and Stéphane Glondu), and in this environment,
I learned my way through Debian Packaging: there are a few custom-built
packages and backports that are needed to keep the infrastructure
running. I started packaging for Debian proper with ramond, a tool to
kill off rogue IPv6 Router Avertisements I installed at to save the
network's IPv6 connectivity from lousy windows behavior. Afterwards, I
took a mostly scratch an itch approach: I joined the OCaml team when I
wanted to package newer upstream versions of some libraries for a
robotics project at ENS, I joined the Python team to help out with
packaging a library (python-simpy) I needed to write a simulator during
an internship, etc. I became a Debian Maintainer thanks to my work in
the OCaml team, although I haven't had the opportunity to use those
privileges much, my packages being relatively quitet upstream and my
packaging teams being (very) reactive.
More recently (since the beginning of 2012), I have become involved in
the mentors.debian.net project. I started by submitting a few patches to
enhance the UI (and improve the underlying backend code). Arno Töll gave
me commit access, then the admin right on the server to be able to push
my changes directly. This culminated in the summer of 2012: I mentored
two students' projects for Google Summer of Code, with Arno, Stuart
Prescott and Asheesh Laroia as co-mentors. Although the code hasn't been
merged so far, I consider it a success as both of the students are
sticking around and seem willing to help with the ongoing efforts.
A few weeks ago, zack asked me to become a GSoC organization admin for
Debian, and I (foolishly? :D) accepted. As my packages are relatively
quiet upstream, I can focus on that for now. I intend to keep on working
on mentors.debian.net, improving the situation for those new
contributors who have to wait for months to even get a response on their
sponsorship requests. And, knowing myself, I'll certainly work to
sponsor some of those packages once I get upload rights. One recent area
of interest for me is Perl packaging: I have commit access to the
upstream repository of Slic3r[5], and I have been meaning to package the
related supporting libraries for a while (while CPAN is nice, giving
users distribution packages is always nicer).
[5] http://www.slic3r.org/
3. Philosophy and Procedures
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Nicolas Dandrimont has a good understanding of Debian's philosophy and
procedures and answered all my questions about the social contract, DFSG,
BTS,
etc. in a good way. Nicolas Dandrimont committed to uphold the SC and DFSG in
his Debian work and accepts the DMUP.
4. Tasks and Skills
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Nicolas Dandrimont has a good understanding of the technical side of Debian.
All packages are in good shape.
Nicolas Dandrimont also answered my other questions regarding TS without
problems
and provided patches for RC bugs.
5. Recommendation
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I recommend to accept Nicolas Dandrimont as a Debian Developer.
I hearby also want to publicly apologize for being inactive as AM in the
last two month. Nicolas, i am very sorry for that. Working with you was
a great pleasure (and hopefully will also be in future).
Cheers,
Martin
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Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.orgDebian System Administrator
Debian GNU/Linux Developer Debian Listmaster
http://about.me/zobel Debian Webmaster
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