Re: GNOME Membership Application of Jeff Bailey

[Sebastien Bacher <seb128 debian org>]

Le dimanche 03 octobre 2004 à 17:09 +0200, Gael Chamoulaud a écrit :

> the primary contact, the committee would like you to list the
> contributions that Jeff Bailey 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.

Hi,

Jeff has been really useful for the integration of GNOME in Debian,
especially to get 2.6 in sarge (the next stable release). He built and
tested the whole GNOME desktop on several architectures (hppa, ia64 for
sure, mips if I remember correctly and he probably helped on some
others). During this time he sent patches upstream to fix the
portability problem he faced. 
He's one the authors of CDBS, the packaging tools used for the GNOME
packages in Debian. 
He's also a GNOME user/bug report, the sponsor of some GNOME packages in
Debian (the evolution connector for example) and an occasional
contributor (with patches).

In regards of the interest he shows in the project and his contributions
I think it would be nice to accept him as a GNOME Foundation member.


Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher