I don't remember why I've come to Debian & Free software. It was about 25 years ago. Probably at university.
Initially I started with LFS (linux from scratch) which gave me good knownledge on how linux works. I started using Debian regularly at the time lenny was stable (~2012?).
After some time I had to rebuild some Debian packages for myself either with patches or small personal changes or to build backports. Little by little I started to use sbuild and schroot to do the work and have packages that fit well on Debian stable.
I contributed some changes to existing packages (keepass2, w-scan, modernizr, biglybt...), later started making new packages for which I could finally find sponsors. Example of new packages are kalkun, freefilesync, and hopefully soon czkawka and their dependencies. czkawka requires many rust crates and collaborative work with the Debian rust team, which by the way provides good support for that.
One of the big work and first packages I made but which is still not in the archive is Qt for Android. For this I also had to take over google-android-installers package. Although package builds fine on Debian and Ubuntu (package is shipped on a PPA), some issues remain to be solved if we want it in the archive.
I also packaged w-scan-cpp which was later taken over by another maintainer since my device using it broke.
List of packages can be found on the DDPO page. I also contributed a few pages on the debian wiki.
Some members suggested me to apply to become a DM, likely so that I could upload all the package updates myself.
I don't remember why I've come to Debian & Free software. It was about 25 years ago. Probably at university.
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Fab Stz