From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,4e2cfa3c86a91207,start X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!10g2000yqq.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Stephen Leake is a new Debian Maintainer Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 01:48:06 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <60d46448-2d37-4bf0-892b-815532e638b2@10g2000yqq.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.98.68.197 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1270111686 27799 127.0.0.1 (1 Apr 2010 08:48:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 08:48:06 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 10g2000yqq.googlegroups.com; posting-host=153.98.68.197; posting-account=pcLQNgkAAAD9TrXkhkIgiY6-MDtJjIlC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100202 Firefox/3.5.8,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9824 Date: 2010-04-01T01:48:06-07:00 List-Id: After Xavier Grave last month[1], Stephen Leake has just been promoted to Debian Maintainer status[2]. Stephen has been my Padawan for more than a year and has been a key contributor to the upcoming Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" stable release (current status at [3]), so it is with great pride and gratefulness that I make this announcement. Thanks in a large part to Stephe, the Debian Policy for Ada[4] has received a major update, raising the bar even higher for the quality of Ada software packages, to the point where other free software projects now look to Debian for guidance and best practices[5]. After this major contribution, Stephe has adopted a few of my packages and added a new one to Debian. I have already added the DM-Upload-Allowed flag to his packages so that he can upload new versions of them to Debian without supervision. This is a token of the trust I place in the quality of his work. Here is a list of packages that Stephe currently maintains: gnade -- GNu Ada Database Environment (adopted) gprbuild -- a multi-language build tool (new) libaunit -- AUnit, a unit test framework for Ada (adopted) opentoken -- OpenToken lexical analysis for Ada (adopted) In addition to his Debian packaging work, Stephe also contributes upstream to OpenToken (which he has also adopted as the main upstream developer), monotone and Emacs ada-mode. Stephe shows great attention to detail, a deep understanding of the Free Software philosophy and, most of all, is a joy to work with. I have already encouraged him to apply for the full Debian Developer status; his application is in progress but will take some more time. Please join me in congratulating Stephe on this recognition of his talent and dedication. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-ada/2010/03/msg00000.html [2] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-ada/2010/03/msg00038.html [4] http://people.debian.org/~lbrenta/debian-ada-policy.html [5] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2009-November/057661.html PS. No, this is not an April Fool's Day prank; it is for real! -- Ludovic Brenta.