Ada in Debian: Xavier Grave is a new Debian Maintainer

Ada in Debian: Xavier Grave is a new Debian Maintainer

[Ludovic Brenta]

(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

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Ludovic Brenta.

Re: Ada in Debian: Xavier Grave is a new Debian Maintainer

[Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)]

Le Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:49:18 +0100, Ludovic Brenta  
<ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> a écrit:
And you Ludovic, who was your mentor ? ;)

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Re: Ada in Debian: Xavier Grave is a new Debian Maintainer

[Ludovic Brenta]

Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne) writes on comp.lang.ada:
> Le Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:49:18 +0100, Ludovic Brenta
> <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> a écrit:
> And you Ludovic, who was your mentor ? ;)

I started from the already excellent packages by Samuel Tardieu.  I also
learned a lot from Matthias Klose, the leade maintainer for GCC and
related packages, who was also my sponsor.  Some parts I learned the
hard way (long hours reading and re-reading documentation, processing
bug reports, etc.)  Overall it took me three years from the time I
started to the time when I became a Debian Developer. There was no
intermediate Debian Maintainer status at that time.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.

Re: Ada in Debian: Xavier Grave is a new Debian Maintainer

[Pascal Obry]

Le 02/03/2010 14:49, Ludovic Brenta a �crit :
> 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:

Congrats to Xavier! You're doing a pretty good job.

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Re: Ada in Debian: Xavier Grave is a new Debian Maintainer

[xavier grave]

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Ludovic Brenta a �crit :
> (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.

Back near a keyboard I can thanks you Ludovic for all your help,
sponsoring, teaching, ... :)

I'll try to have packages as clean and bug less as Ada allow us.

xavier
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Re: Ada in Debian: Xavier Grave is a new Debian Maintainer

[xavier grave]

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Pascal Obry a �crit :
> Le 02/03/2010 14:49, Ludovic Brenta a �crit :
>> 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:
> 
> Congrats to Xavier! You're doing a pretty good job.

Thanks Pascal, coming from you these Congratulations sound gold to me :)
AWS is a very used and useful tool for our projects.

xavier
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