Diederik de Haas
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Debian Contributor
on nm.debian.org since
2021-09-09
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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.
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