Advocacy for Julian Taylor
Hello, I advocate Julian Taylor to become Debian Developer, uploading. Advocacy text: I had a pleasure working with Julian in the course of my maintaintership of few scientific Python packages (e.g. pandas, statsmodels) in Debian while he was taking care about them in Ubuntu and contributing back upstream, i.e. to Debian. We also had fun troubleshooting together obscure bugs in numpy and pandas on exotic platforms (e.g. s390) which he had no access to, I was lacking sufficient background to troubleshoot them myself. Julian is also a regular contributor to upstream NumPy project, making him well aware of its intrinsics, and helping to assure healthy numpy operation on Debian platforms. Interacting with him was always a pleasure: he possesses strong technical skills and healthy social merits (as far as could have been judged from emails/IRC/IM ;-) ). I would wholeheartedly advocate him to seek Debian developer status -- he would be a great addition to the Debian project. Yaroslav Halchenko (via nm.debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-newmaint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131021193836.25001.38...@nono.debian.org
Re: Support of DM application of Nicolas Bourdaud
It is my pleasure to advocate Nicolas for Debian Maintainer status. I believe it was the libfreenect package for which Nicolas submitted packaging improvements and I got to know him. Immediately he impressed me with attention to detail and software development skills. Since then we interacted quite often and I have mentored/sponsored few other packages relevant to the domain of neuroscience, which is of our joint interest. In the course of all our activities Nicolas appeared to me as an enthusiastic fella with a good personality ;) Altogether I think he would be an ideal candidate not only for DM but NM track and Debian community would benefit greatly from his contributions. I fully support his application. With best regards, -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: DM application of Christian Kastner
On Mon, 09 May 2011, Christian Kastner wrote: This is my declaration of intent to become a Debian Maintainer URL:http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer. I have read the Social Contract, Debian Free Software Guidelines and Debian Machine Usage Policy and agree with all of them. I would like to endorse Christian's DM application. I have been mentoring/sponsoring few of his packages (libfann, pyevolve) and always was pleased with his work, communication skills, and willingness to research for optimal ways to resolve specific packaging questions. Christian and I have initiated a machine-learning task [1] within Debian-Science blend, so I am really looking forward for his further contributions to Debian to make it the ultimate research platform in machine learning. [1] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/machine-learning -- =--= Keep in touch www.onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko www.ohloh.net/accounts/yarikoptic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: AM report for Michael Hanke michael.ha...@gmail.com
5. Recommendation - I recommend to accept Michael as a Debian Developer. I make bold to *insist* on accepting this fella into the army of Debian developers, so I would not keep hearing from 2 meters away Are you willing to contribute to Debian? any time he comes up with a new package to enter NEW. Let him become a proud uploader fixing #409849 with his own debsign. He is perfectly skilled and utterly enthusiastic to sustain an increasing load of ongoing maintainership and upcoming new endeavors within the Debian project. -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, 2 meters from M.Hanke, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Advocating David Bremner da...@tethera.net
Auth-Key: nmauthb1f69a7735001892ef8663ed6d4e7f5f Applicant: David Bremner da...@tethera.net My first contact with David has happened in February 2008, while he was seeking for a sponsor of bibutils package. I became a dedicated sponsor for that (one of a few) package of David, and can say that I liked working with him: David was always responsive, taking my advises seriously, and providing corresponding fixes in a timely matter. Although bibutils is just a single package, and altogether our interaction with David was somewhat limited and mostly technical, from that experience I can state that David has good social skills and is eager to contribute to Debian. Altogether, David is maintaining several packages to do with academic writing - sketch - bibutils - latexdiff and with mathematical computing - lrslib - nauty (non-free) with several more mathematical packages ITP'd and generic utility packages (e.g. syncevolution and libsynthesis). He is also experienced to work in a team (co-maintaining highlight package, working with the pkg-perl team on several packages, nauty is under Debian Science Maintainers). David seems to work closely with upstream (particularly bibutils, sketch, lrslib, and syncevolution) in getting patches upstream and solving user issues. He is energetic in working on RC bugs (see e.g. 569626, 566940, 544862) and generally friendly and efficient. He also reacted and NMUed maxima during the Lenny freeze, when it looked like it was going to be dropped. David shared with me his plans to focus on packaging and maintaining in Debian software for mathematical computing and optimization (linear programming and related topics). He is using and advocating the use of free software (well, nauty is an odd case, but bliss is a free replacement ITPed) in his work as a professor in CS and thus he is well motivated to keep those tools in good shape in Debian. Therefore, I am advocating David Bremner for Debian Developer position. With best regards, Yaroslav -- .-. =-- /v\ = Keep in touch// \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User^^-^^[17] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Debian Maintainer Declaration. David Bremner
I've sponsored David's bibutil packaging work. In my opinion David is a nice guy with good packaging skills. He is also present on a few Debian mailing lists, has computer science major (and teaches the others ;)). I would advocate him for Debian maintainer. Thanks in advance -- Yaroslav Halchenko Research Assistant, Psychology Department, Rutgers-Newark Office: (973) 353-5440x263 | FWD: 82823 | Fax: (973) 353-1171 101 Warren Str, Smith Hall, Rm 4-105, Newark NJ 07105 Student Ph.D. @ CS Dept. NJIT signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: DM application for Michael Hanke
Hi to all parties involved ;) I believe that Michael has the technical skills needed to maintain Debian packages. I support his application to become a Debian maintainer, because... many things: I've got to know Michael through the common interest in packaging of neuroimaging software (FSL at that point in particular) for Debian few years ago. And he became the one who took the burden to package and maintain that quite complicated piece of software to be readily available for Debian (thus also Ubuntu users). If he only worked on that single package, I would be already inclined to advocate him for the DM, since he manages to provide - up-to-date releases of the package(s) - backports to a variety of debian and ubuntu releases - timely reaction to the submitted bug-reports - exposure of packaging in publicly available VCS - very good knowledge of DFSG, policy and generic comprehension of a variety of FOSS licenses - advocacy of FOSS whenever it is possible and/or appropriate - good communication skills (monitors and participates in various discussions across various Debian's mailing lists and blogs) As Michael has mentioned -- FSL is not the only package he maintains -- there is quite a few of them. I have been sponsoring most of them, and I must admit that I barely ever rejected some of the tentative packages. I merely provided additional comments on how to improve the package (it is always easier to suggest than to do the actual work ;-) ). We have troubleshooted few of the sever bugs in few packages together to provide upstream with a solution, and none of bugs iirc was left without Michael's attention. I must confess that besides all mentioned above we are good friends (I hope qualification is mutual ;-)), scientific collaborators (few papers are out), co-founders of Debian's Experimental Psychology packaging project [1], and co-developers of the PyMVPA project [2]. If it would be up to me, I would grant him DD status without thinking twice. But as Michael has mentioned -- NM mission was not accomplished to the time constraint (PhD PhD PhD), thus, the least Debian can do for Michael is to grant him DM status, so packages do not wait half of the day to be sponsored by me ;-) With best regards, [1] http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-exppsy/ [2] http://www.pymvpa.org/ On Wed, 07 Jan 2009, Michael Hanke wrote: Hi, I hereby want to apply to become a Debian Maintainer. I have read the Social Contract, Debian Free Software Guidelines and Debian Machine Usage Policy and agree with all of them. I maintain a number of packages (mostly neuroscience-related, plus a few more general ones), e.g. arno-iptables-firewall, dicomnifti, fslview, hcluster, kbibtex, nifticlib, pymvpa, pynfiti, qlandkarte, ... The full list is here: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=michael.hanke%40gmail.com I am also in NM, but did not manage to finish TS2 over the past year due to time contrainst. I have to admit that I pretty much massively downweighted the importance of NM in favor of package maintenance, as soon as I faced the situation of a limited amount of time that I could devote to Debian. Although I very much like the peer-reviewed approach of packaging with a sponsor, I am nevertheless applying for DM in the hope to be able to take some burden off the shoulders of Yaroslav Halchenko (my main sponsor). Thanks for your consideration, Michael Hanke -- .-. =-- /v\ = Keep in touch// \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User^^-^^[17] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: AM Report for Nathanael Nerode
Hi All NM Committee, I am not even sure if I have the right to participate in the discussion but want to comment on 2. Philosophy and Procedures Nathanael has a broad understanding of Debian's philosophy and procedures. Nathanael has in the past repeatedly shown very agressive behaviour towards Debian Developers on the lists, something which in my humble optinion is not in line with Debian's philosophy and procedures. Did you take this into account/consideration when evaluating his application? with http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb06/egos.html Specifically: In a study in the December Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Vol. 89, No. 5, pages 925-936), they find that people overestimate both their ability to convey their intended tone-be it sarcastic, serious or funny?when they send an e-mail, as well as their ability to correctly interpret the tone of messages others send to them. That is why I am always trying to approach similar problematic emails from the light side ;-) -- Yaroslav Halchenko Research Assistant, Psychology Department, Rutgers-Newark Office: (973) 353-5440x263 | FWD: 82823 | Fax: (973) 353-1171 101 Warren Str, Smith Hall, Rm 4-105, Newark NJ 07102 Student Ph.D. @ CS Dept. NJIT pgphrD57w3ohL.pgp Description: PGP signature
