Well hello there.
A couple of days ago my
debian.org account was created, meaning
that I'm one of the crop of current new Debian Developers.
Actually the news was broken to me by
Rhonda when I attached to irssi
after arriving at work, a nice surprise
<Rhonda> All congratulate Laney on becoming a Debian Developer. ;)
* Rhonda . o O ( http://db.debian.org/search.cgi?dosearch=1&uid=laney )
<Laney> Rhonda: I did?!?!?!
I'll quickly introduce myself by paraphrasing from the background
section of the
AM report before letting you go about your business.
I apparently submitted my first thrilling patch to the
alsa-tools
package in Ubuntu on February 2nd, 2008. This was sponsored into Hardy
by
Daniel Chen. Thereafter followed a myriad of exciting patches
to various packages that somehow managed to convince a bunch of people
that I had enough skill to
become an Ubuntu developer.
Fast forward a while and I get sucked into the world of Debian
packaging by the CLI/Mono strike force of
Mirco Bauer and
Jo Shields by way of the Mono 2.0 transition. This was where I
got
my first Debian upload, and it was in this team that I
fully realised both the excellence and importance of Debian in the
FOSS world.
At some point the Debian Haskell Group formed and I've been involved
to some extent there all along too.
What I've mainly learned from these two groups is that team
maintenance is a
really great way to look after a bunch of related
packages. When I see people touting new packages about, I often
recommend that they look at
the list of teams to find a nice
home. Perhaps one or two actually did.
Thanks to everyone who's supported me so far. I hope to be able to do
the same for others in the future.