Reto Buerki is a new Debian Maintainer

Reto Buerki is a new Debian Maintainer

[Ludovic Brenta]

For the third month in a row, I am proud to announce that the Debian
Ada team is growing.  After Xavier Grave[1] and Stephen Leake[2], Reto
Buerki has now been accepted as an official Debian Maintainer and
granted permission to upload new versions of his packages to the
official Debian archive without supervision.

Reto started Debian packaging when he adopted opentoken from me in May
2008 (almost two years ago now).  He has since then added several new
packages to Debian, the most significant being polyorb which took more
than a year to reach unstable(!).  Reto has worked very well in
collaborative maintenance with Xavier Grave and myself on polyorb and
demonstrated excellent technical skills; he even took to lead the
maintenance of this very complex package.  I trust he will use his new
Debian Maintainer powers wisely and eventually grow into a full Debian
Developer.

Here is a list of packages that Reto currently maintains:

ahven -- Unit test library for Ada (new in 5.0 "Lenny")

libalog -- Logging framework for Ada (new in 5.0 "Lenny")

pcscada -- Ada bindings to PC/SC middleware (new in 6.0 "Squeeze")

polyorb -- Multiple-personality middleware for Ada (new in 6.0
"Squeeze")

Reto also maintained the OpenToken package for a while before
entrusting maintenance to Stephen Leake.

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-ada/2010/03/msg00000.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-ada/2010/04/msg00004.html

Please join me in sending well-deserved thanks and congratulations to
Reto.

--
Ludovic Brenta.