Diederik de Haas

Account namediederik
OpenPGP fingerprint F5B1 43C1 62CC 869A 2E2E B32F D76E 5BCE 787E DB6E 0 Endorsements
Status Debian Contributor on nm.debian.org since 2021-09-09

Short Biography

Probably started using Debian (Etch) in 2007. Found Stable 'boring' so switched to Testing and filed my first bug (#510452) on 2009-01-02. Later that year I switch to using the email address I'm currently using (including for my GPG key). The first bug I filed with that email address was #547708 and according to it's metadata I was already running Sid as my daily driver back then. I also started participating in Mailing Lists and joined various IRC channels. I also had an account on alioth but wasn't very active then.

Outside Debian, my most involved contribution is with https://github.com/debian-pi/raspbian-ua-netinst/ where I submitted my first PR on 2014-04-01. Soon thereafter contributed some more at which the original creator and then maintainer asked me if I'd like to help maintain it and soon after that whether I wanted to take it over completely. Which I did and worked for quite some years on that and learned a lot about RPi's and what it's like being a maintainer. When I found out that there was already work being done inside Debian to run pure Debian on RPi's, I started contributing to that. After some time, 'kibi' suggested that I should become a DD too and 'gwolf' agreed with that. I began to grow a (strong) dislike of the RPi Foundation, so I bought a PINE64 Rock64. That wasn't well supported by the Debian kernel at the time, so I worked to fix that. Also added or improved support for other Rockchip based devices. And now try to contribute to the upstream kernel.

Personal history

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2024-04-24 2025-05-02 DD, upl. Diederik de Haas diederik Closed
2021-09-09 2021-09-10 DD, non-upl. Diederik de Haas diederik Closed utkarsh
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