Ada in Debian: I am now an official Debian Developer

Ada in Debian: I am now an official Debian Developer

[Ludovic Brenta]

Subject says it all.

See
http://nm.debian.org/nmstatus.php?email=ludovic%40ludovic-brenta.org
for proof, if you don't believe me.

The full process took 35 months since I started packaging gnat in
Debian.  I'm sure glad it is complete at last. Also, this will give me
read-write access to the Subversion repository that holds the GCC build
scripts. I'm not going to take advantage of that privilege just now, as
my work on GCC 4.1 is complete. On the other hand, I anticipate I'll
make quite a few package uploads in the next few weeks, without the
need for a sponsor.  Stay tuned for more announcements :-)

Ah, one last thing: I am now in a position to sponsor other people who
would like to contribute to Debian. So, if you too would like to
maintain a few packages (or co-maintain them with me), please drop me a
note.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.

Re: Ada in Debian: I am now an official Debian Developer

[Pascal Obry]

Congrats Ludovic!

Pascal.

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Re: Ada in Debian: I am now an official Debian Developer

[george]

Brothers in arms, rejoice!

Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Subject says it all.
>
> The full process took 35 months since I started packaging gnat in
> Debian.  I'm sure glad it is complete at last. Also, this will give me
Wow!
And I though we (Gentoo) were slacking, with mentoring/recruitment
process taking 3-6 month nowadays :). Well, Ok, most of our recruits
have a history (usually upwards of a year) of submissions to our
bugtracking system, but still.. Apparently you cannot beat Debian when
it comes to, um, I don't know, - the process? :)

Congratulations!

George

Re: Ada in Debian: I am now an official Debian Developer

[Ludovic Brenta]

"george" <gshapovalov@gmail.com> writes:

> Brothers in arms, rejoice!
>
> Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>> Subject says it all.
>>
>> The full process took 35 months since I started packaging gnat in
>> Debian.  I'm sure glad it is complete at last. Also, this will give me
> Wow!
> And I though we (Gentoo) were slacking, with mentoring/recruitment
> process taking 3-6 month nowadays :). Well, Ok, most of our recruits
> have a history (usually upwards of a year) of submissions to our
> bugtracking system, but still.. Apparently you cannot beat Debian when
> it comes to, um, I don't know, - the process? :)

Well yes.  Gentoo is growing faster than Debian, and I think that's
one reason.  No one is paid to process applications, and there are
many, and the process is indeed very thorough.  Just to give you an
idea, the very first step is to have your GPG key signed by two Debian
Developers or more.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.

Re: Ada in Debian: I am now an official Debian Developer

[Poul-Erik Andreasen]

Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> "george" <gshapovalov@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Brothers in arms, rejoice!
>>
>> Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>>> Subject says it all.
>>>
>>> The full process took 35 months since I started packaging gnat in
>>> Debian.  I'm sure glad it is complete at last. Also, this will give me
>> Wow!
>> And I though we (Gentoo) were slacking, with mentoring/recruitment
>> process taking 3-6 month nowadays :). Well, Ok, most of our recruits
>> have a history (usually upwards of a year) of submissions to our
>> bugtracking system, but still.. Apparently you cannot beat Debian when
>> it comes to, um, I don't know, - the process? :)
> 
> Well yes.  Gentoo is growing faster than Debian, and I think that's
> one reason.  No one is paid to process applications, and there are
> many, and the process is indeed very thorough.  Just to give you an
> idea, the very first step is to have your GPG key signed by two Debian
> Developers or more.
> 
Congratiultion for me too.

I want you to know that it actually was your work wich made me change my 
preferred distro to Debian. And a have no regrets at all:-)

Greetings

Poul-Erik Andreasen.

Re: Ada in Debian: I am now an official Debian Developer

[Björn Persson]

Congratulations! I had no idea you were anything less than a Debian 
developer before. :-)

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Re: Ada in Debian: I am now an official Debian Developer

[Jacob Sparre Andersen]

Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> See
> http://nm.debian.org/nmstatus.php?email=ludovic%40ludovic-brenta.org

Congratulations!

Greetings,

Jacob
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