How to handle NEEDINFO ? [was:Re: Application received from Guilherme de Siqueira Pastore (guilherme.pastore AT terra.com.br)]

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhay <sankarshan randomink org>]

Hi,

How do we normally handle NEEDINFO cases ? Additionally, how does one
ensure that the contacts are provided with an active mailing address.
More often I have seen contact e-ids bounce.

Rgds
SM

GNOME Foundation Membership Committee Script wrote:
> Contact Information:
> --------------------
> Name: Guilherme de Siqueira Pastore
> E-mail: guilherme.pastore AT terra.com.br
> irc.gnome.org nickname (if any): fatalerror
> cvs.gnome.org username (if any): gpastore
>
> Previous GNOME Foundation member: no
>
> GNOME contributions:
> --------------------
>
> Summary:
> Translation to Brazilian Portuguese, Debian packaging and module maintainership.
>
> Detailed description:
> I started to help with translations into Brazilian Portuguese back when GNOME 2.4 was about to release,  if 
> my memory is not too bad =) I wished to do more, but had no technical knowledge for that. Little time 
> later, I got to know the Debian GNOME Team, and started providing little help, as in doing bug triaging, 
> and maintaining some unofficial stuff.
>
> Later, I became the maintainer for the atomix module, which had been abandoned for quite some time and, 
> hence, applied for a CVS account. I consider I've been doing a good work with the module itself, but that 
> wasn't enough. When I got my account, I remembered the problems we had in GNOME-BR because of lots of 
> translations and few (usually absent) coordinators, so I started committing translations too.
>
> Finally, as I was able to improve my skills, I also got more deeply involved, and now I'm even maintaining 
> core GNOME packages in Debian, and beginning to mess with other parts of CVS, such as the about-me, as I 
> had written a password changer for GNOME some time ago, which has been obsoleted by the capplet =)
>
> Contacts:
> po/ChangeLog on many CVS modules can be used to check the translation work that I've done, both in 
> translating and committing translations for those without CVS access after checking them.
>
> The ChangeLog on the atomix module reflects most of the coding work I've done for GNOME so far.
>
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/eog is an example of a core package I maintain in Debian, and a proof of my 
> participation in the Debian GNOME Team.
>
> There have also been some less significant contributions, such as a typo fix in the website, but they're 
> too fragmented for me to remember and/or list here =)
>
> Other comments:
> ---------------
> GNOME is a project and a desktop environment I love. Although I already dedicate a good amount of my free 
> time to it, I don't consider it enough yet, as it doesn't match what I feel in relation to the community.
>
> My contributions tend to constantly increase, proportionally with my free time and my skills, which are 
> still in development =)
>
> [Application received at Fri Aug 26 19:56:43 2005 (Eastern time)]
>
> If you have any questions, you can contact the membership committee by
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