[Cuadrantes-espiral] [Offtopic] address@hidden: AM report for Jay Bonci <address@hidden>]

[Javier Linares]

Muy buenas.

Jay Bonci, principal desarrollador del motor de Everything, acaba de ser
aceptado como desarrollador Debian. Me huelo que muy pronto los paquetes de
Everything entrarán en Sid y que estarán en los próximos CDs de Debian.

Lo más curioso es que este ex-ingeniero de Microsoft ha demostrado en
Debian que habla español (bueno, también que todos podemos reciclarnos y
terminar trabajando con y para el Software Libre). 

Creo que podría ser un fichaje interesante para espiral ;-).

> He has contributed towards the DDTP by providing Spanish translations

Ta luego.


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From: Scott James Remnant <address@hidden>
Date: 13 Apr 2003 19:06:03 +0100
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Subject: AM report for Jay Bonci <address@hidden>
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Summary: Accept

Name: Jay Bonci
E-Mail: address@hidden

Debian Account: jaybonci
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Initially I felt his answers were being rushed, and he wasn't taking
the time to fully read and understand policy, instead just diving in
to answer questions I asked.  This shows heavily in his early answers.

However the longer time in the NM queue has given him a chance to
prove otherwise, and I now feel he has a very good understanding of
policy and will make valuable contributions to Debian.


Identification
--------------

Key signed by existing developer: Josh Huber <address@hidden>

pub  1024D/E0B8B2DE 2002-06-29 Jay Bonci <address@hidden>
     Key fingerprint = 562B 35DC BE8D 7802 DB31  6423 64D8 790F E0B8
B2DE
sig!3       E0B8B2DE 2002-06-29   Jay Bonci <address@hidden>
sig!3       6B21489A 2002-08-08   Josh Huber <address@hidden>
sub  1024g/E13C080E 2002-06-29
sig!        E0B8B2DE 2002-06-29   Jay Bonci <address@hidden>

Passed.


Background
----------

Jay wrote the following about himself:

> Well I started in the industry a few years ago as a QA engineer
> for Microsoft at 18.  After getting out of there, and moving on, I
> started my own business to do consulting work.  Through a somewhat
> wierd chain of events, I fell in with a website Everything2.com,
> where I am currently the lead maintainer.  This expanded out to do
> work on the everything engine (http://sf.net/projects/everydevel), a
> mature web development platform that currently powers many different
> websites, and is itself extensible through different plugins.
> (This is one place where the debian .deb architecture has really
> helped us to ease deployment).   It has definitely broadened my
> experience in Free Software and has entrenched me in it and the
> broad world of Perl.  And, for the most part, I've loved every
> minute of it (save those times that apache simply won't start,
> or perl unexpectedly segfaults).

> As far as my bio, I'd like you to tack on that as of now, I am an
> independant consultant for VA software (that is my job).

He indicated he'd like to be in involved in QA work, as well
as packaging.


Philosophy and Procedures
-------------------------

Was able to adequately summarise the intent of the Social Contract
and DFSG in his own words.

Answered a series of questions on Policy, Procedure and the BTS
in a satisfactory way.

He agreed to abide by the DMUP.

He agreed to abide the Social Contract.

He agreed to uphold the DFSG.

Passed.


Tasks and Skills
----------------

He has packaged two Perl modules, libcarp-assert-perl and
libtie-regexphash-perl, both from scratch using debhelper.  These have
both been sponsored and uploaded into unstable.

His sponsor suggested a number of changes to the packages which he
made, once they were ready I verified them independantly.

He was able to justify packaging decisions he'd made, referring to
policy points where proper.

Both packages are lintian-clean.


As an extra task, I asked him to repackage one of his packages without
using debhelper.  I verified his non-debhelper packages and pointed
out a few problems which he duly fixed.

The third and final version is lintian clean, and produces a valid
Debian package, identical to the debhelper version.  The non-debhelper
version of libcarp-assert-perl is available from:

http://jay.bonci.com/debian/files/nodh/


He has made a number of bug reports, mostly reporting simple problems
with packages.  Two, 175437 and 176372, had patches attached -- although
the latter was not accepted.  A couple of other interesting ones are
175403 and 172444.


He has contributed towards the DDTP by providing Spanish translations
for the descriptions of his packages.  These can be seen at the
following
URLs.

http://ddtp.debian.org/cgi-bin/ddtp.cgi?part=pdesc&package=libcarp-assert-perl
http://ddtp.debian.org/cgi-bin/ddtp.cgi?part=pdesc&package=libtie-regexphash-perl


He's also intending to work with Joy and the rest of the debian-www team
if possible, has already submitted bugs on it and is familiarising
himself with the various webtools.


Has contributed a patch to the New Maintainer weekly report script to
catch future DAM recommendation dates.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2003/debian-newmaint-200304/msg00006.html


He's filed a number of ITPs and ITAs which he intends to follow up on
as soon as possible.

libclass-date-perl (binary perl), ITP
libkrb5-perl (binary perl), ITP
libarray-printcols-perl, ITA
libipc-sharedcache-perl (binary perl), ITA

Passed.

Scott
-- 
Scott James Remnant     Have you ever, ever felt like this?  Had strange
http://netsplit.com/      things happen?  Are you going round the twist?



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