[D-m-team] Bug#452719: Advocate DM: Ondrej Certik

[Piotr Ożarowski]

[Joey Hess, 25.11.2007]
> Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
> > I'm hereby advocating Ondrej Certik [1] as a DM.
> > GPG key: 0xEEA07609 (signed by Bill Allombert <ballombe at debian.org>)
> > 
> > Ondrej is a Debian Python Modules Team and Debian Scientific Computing
> > Team member [2]. He is already in NM (waiting for AM [3])
> 
> Could you go into some more detail about him? What work has he done within
> those teams?

I know Ondrej only from Debian Python Modules Team. He is working on
scientific Python packages (he graduated in physics) in our team. His
packages are: petsc4py, scipy and sympy (he is also one of upstream
authors of this one) - all of them are well maintained. I didn't have to
do much before uploading, see [1], [2] and [3].

> Is someone currently sponsoring his packages, or are all uploads
> being done by other team members?

I'm sponsoring all packages that he has in DPMT repository. I will add
dm-upload-allowed field only to packages that are in our repo, not that
I don't trust Ondrej, I just think DM's work should still be controlled.

> What's he done that's earned your trust that he should be a DM?

I just think that Ondrej is one of best skilled non-DD team members [4],
he really knows what he's doing and deserves to have upload rights.

> How long has he been involved in working on Debian?

He is using Debian since 2001, I'm sponsoring him since at least half a
year.

> What does he still need to learn?

Dunno, his AM will check his knowledge more carefully, all I know is
that he can maintain Python packages by himself, specially the scientific
ones.

[1] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/python-modules/packages/scipy/?op=log&rev=0&sc=1&isdir=1
[2] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/python-modules/packages/sympy/?op=log&rev=0&sc=1&isdir=1
[3] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/python-modules/packages/petsc4py/?op=log&rev=0&sc=1&isdir=1
[4] Ondrej: try to make mistake now, when I said something like that
    publicly, and you'll be in big troubles ;-)
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:wq!
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