James Valleroy

Account namejvalleroy
OpenPGP fingerprint 7D6A DB75 0F91 0855 8948 4BE6 77C0 C75E 7B65 0808 0 Endorsements
Status Debian Developer, uploading since 2020-10-17

Short Biography

The roots of my journey to Debian began with the launch of the FreedomBox project in 2010. Although I was using Fedora at the time, my interest in this project led me to switch to Ubuntu, and eventually to Debian in 2012, in order to have a proper development environment to contribute to this project. I began actively contributing to FreedomBox project in 2014, and became a co-maintainer in 2015.

Since 2017, I have helped as a "release manager" for the project, uploading new releases to Debian every 2 weeks. Along the way, I have begun to co-maintain several python module packages, and report bugs and contribute patches to the various application and infrastructure packages that FreedomBox relies on. Most recently, I have been active in the PHP team, in order to increase the number of web apps available in Debian.

I live in the metro Detroit area of Michigan, USA.

Personal history

New-style processes
Started Last Target Applicant UID Status AM
2020-07-13 2020-10-17 DD, upl. James Valleroy jvalleroy Closed srud
2017-04-09 2017-05-07 DM James Valleroy jvalleroy Closed
Old-style processes
Applicant From To Applying for Progress AM Advocate(s)

Advocate history

New-style processes
Started Last Target Applicant UID Status AM
2023-01-10 2024-01-25 DD, upl. William Desportes williamdes Closed
2025-04-01 2025-06-04 DM Fab Stz bastif Closed
Old-style processes
Applicant From To Applying for Progress AM Advocate(s)