Ada in Debian: Xavier Grave is a new Debian Maintainer

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

(reposted from debian-ada@lists.debian.org to comp.lang.ada)

I make this announcement with great pride. After a year or so of
mentoring, my young and talented Padawan, Xavier Grave, has been
accepted as a Debian Maintainer[1,2,3]. Xavier is the maintainer of
three new packages in Debian:

liblog4ada -- An Ada library for flexible logging
libxmlezout -- Easy-to-use library for emitting XML from Ada programs
polyorb(*) -- Multiple-personality middleware for Ada
(*) together with Reto Buerki and myself

In addition, he will adopt the following existing package:

music123 -- A command-line shell for sound-file players

and he occasionally helps maintain:

gnat-gps -- The GNAT Programming System - advanced IDE for C and Ada

Now that he is a Debian Maintainer, he has the right to upload new
versions of his packages to the Debian archive without supervision
from a sponsor. In time, I do hope he will grow into a full Debian
Developer with voting rights, the right to upload any package and to
sponsor packages for his own Padawans :)

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2010/02/msg00012.html
[3] http://bugs.debian.org/569186

--
Ludovic Brenta.