Hi Debian Planet!
Finally
I became a Debian Developer on saturday. Some time after that
I sent my first e-mail @debian.org, and today
I uploaded my first package: haskell-qio, a sponsored upload for Iain Lane.
I d like to thanks everyone that have helped me in the process:
- Joachim Breitner: for being my sponsor, telling me to look into NM, advocating me in NM and DM, helping me with packaging and other things.
- Gustavo Noronha: for advocating me in DM, helping me with packaging and agreeing that packaging is not an easy to learn task.
- Enrico Zini: for being a very nice to work with and helpful AM.
- Marcelo Vieira: for the chats about the process, which made it pass faster.
- Ian Costa de Andrade: for not complaining too much about me spending the whole day in the computer, and for all support and encouragement.
- Marina Gontijo Andrade: for existing.
- Wagner Meira and Fernando Pereira: for allowing me to work on Debian and giving me a scholarship for it.
- Thadeu Cascardo and Samuel Vale: for giving me a Debian-related job which made me study about the system.
I m absolutely sure I m forgetting about someone, but I m also sure I ll never remember everyone and I ll always have this sensation. Being a Debian Developer is something I wanted for a long time, and I m very happy to have made it now.
Currently I m working mostly in the
Debian Haskell Group. These days I m checking if it s possible to make ghci be built in all architectures, and trying to make the newer versions of ghc6, from sid (6.10.4-1) and experimental (6.12.1-4), build in ia64, hurd-i386 and m68k. Any help is welcome.
By the way, while I was reading
the instructions to migrate some things to the new account, I ve not paid very much attention that I should only change the submitter of the unarchived e-mail, and I made a script, which I posted on the wiki, to change it for all the bugs. Neil Williams commented that this was not necessary, and Sandro Tosi pointed that I could have done this using only one mail to do all commands. Yves-Alexis Perez said that even with the unarchived bug this may not be a good idea, because of the generated noise. So I update the script in the wiki, following these tips, thanks for them. Special thanks for Jimmy Klapowitz, who was nice and supportive in a moment people were not being very nice to me. Sorry for the maintainers that received a lot of e-mails because of this, specially to the people who sign
the pkg-haskell-maintainers mailling list, which received the biggest ammount of mail.
