Re: GNOME Membership Application of Ryan Lortie

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Davyd Madeley">

> On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 11:46:16AM +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhay wrote:
>
> > The GNOME foundation membership committee needs more informations to
> > process the application of Ryan Lortie . Since you have been listed as
> > the primary contacts, the committee would like you to list the
> > contributions that Ryan Lortie  has made for the GNOME community in
> > recent times.  Your input will be greatly appreciated to help us to make
> > a fair and informed decision in the granting or denying the applicant as
> > a foundation member.
>
> Ryan Lortie has contributed significantly to the GNOME Applets codebase.
> You will find examples of his code in at least battstat, gweather and gtik
> to name recent examples. He has assisted in filling in maintainership and
> patch review roles when I have been busy and is an excellent software
> engineer.
>
> Outside, but related to the project. He has worked to track down bugs in
> our dependancy libraries, including HAL and D-BUS. He also has spent some
> time working with inotify.
>
> He is active and enthusiatic and I see no reason he shouldn't be able to
> join the foundation.

Concur.

- Jeff

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