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: a07f3367d7,35e881bffa44b107,start X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!o8g2000yqo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Reto Buerki is a new Debian Maintainer Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 00:55:01 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8aa4f7ba-93fc-4335-929b-4b048b76f4dc@o8g2000yqo.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 1273046101 14290 127.0.0.1 (5 May 2010 07:55:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 07:55:01 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o8g2000yqo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=153.98.68.197; posting-account=pcLQNgkAAAD9TrXkhkIgiY6-MDtJjIlC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009012111 Red Hat/3.0.6-1.el5 Firefox/3.0.6,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11318 Date: 2010-05-05T00:55:01-07:00 List-Id: 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.