Nilesh Patra

Account namenilesh
OpenPGP fingerprint A095 B66E E090 24BE E6A2 F072 2A27 904B D724 3EDA 0 Endorsements
Status Debian Developer, uploading since 2021-01-13
Application manager active, am ctte, 12 applicants processed

Short Biography

I'm Nilesh, a 21 year old undergrad student and a free software enthusiast from India. I was introduced to the world of free software when I entered the second year of my engineering degree. Simply amazed by it's philosophy and influence, I started using GNU/Linux and also became a part of ILUG-D, a local Linux Users Group in Delhi. I always wanted to contribute something to the community but was always remained intimidated. It was in March 2019, that a Minidebconf (Debutsav) was organized in Delhi. Simply interested by the event, I attended the conference on Day - 1, and was introduced to Debian Packaging. This looked really interesting to me, and when I got free time, I read up a few docs and started with a "hello-world" package to get the hang of it. I had a few doubts in the process, and Utkarsh Gupta (a DD) helped me with it. Seeing my interest in learning packaging stuff, Utkarsh invited me to relevant IRC channels where I met Pirate Praveen. Praveen not only mentored me with packaging, but also made me aware of the way things work in Debian, and free-software in general. I'm very thankful to both Praveen and Utkarsh :-)

Soon, I started to make real contributions, and I could feel my skill improve manifolds in a short period of time. Thanks to Praveen's awesome mentoring. While contributing to JS-team repos, another DD - Xavier Guimard would review and sponsor my packages most of the times - I admit, I learnt a lot from him; I always admired him doing packages with lightning fast speed :) Since then, there has been no looking back, and I contributed to my fullest. I soon started contributing to other Debian teams, and the blends teams grabbed my interest. There, I met another DD - "Andreas Tille" who would mentor me and sponsor my packages. The Debian Med team is a very interesting initiative and I love contributing there. With Andreas' solid support and mentoring, I feel that my skills have further improved leaps and bounds. Initially started with the JS-team, by now I've now contributed to 9 packaging teams. I'm mainly active in JS, Go, R and Med teams - and try my best improving the packages there - by introducing new packages, fixing bugs, adding tests etc. In the process I've worked with a lot of other DDs as well - Steffen Möller, Michael R. Crusoe, Dylan Aissi (Dylan sponsors most of my R packages :-)) and several others, who have helped me a lot in the journey. So far, I would say that my Debian journey has been a very enriching experience, and I hope to contribute even more and give back to the community :)

Personal history

New-style processes
Started Last Target Applicant UID Status AM
2020-11-17 2021-01-13 DD, upl. Nilesh Patra nilesh Closed srud
2020-09-16 2020-09-19 DM+account Nilesh Patra nilesh Closed
2020-05-31 2020-06-08 DM Nilesh Patra nilesh 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
2021-09-29 2021-11-12 DD, upl. Douglas Andrew Torrance dtorrance Closed zigo
2021-11-18 2021-12-01 DM+account Julien Lamy lamy Closed
2022-05-16 2022-05-23 DM Lance Lin lancelin Closed
2022-06-28 2022-07-26 DM Vivek K J vivek Closed
2022-07-17 2022-07-30 DM Robin Jarry rjarry Closed
2022-07-26 2022-10-12 DM Vivek K J vivek Closed
2022-08-17 2022-10-09 DD, upl. Mathias Gibbens gibmat Closed zigo
2022-08-27 2022-09-24 DM Martin Dosch mdosch Closed
2023-06-02 2023-09-15 DD, upl. François Mazen mzf Closed tobi
2023-10-24 2023-11-07 DD, upl. Taavi Väänänen taavi AM peb
Old-style processes
Applicant From To Applying for Progress AM Advocate(s)

AM history

New-style processes
Started Last Target Applicant UID Status AM
2022-05-29 2022-11-11 DD, upl. Dennis Braun snd Closed nilesh
2022-07-08 2022-09-24 DD, non-upl. Abraham Raji abraham Closed nilesh
2022-11-13 2023-02-26 DD, non-upl. Sahil Dhiman sahil Closed nilesh
2023-01-10 2023-03-31 DD, upl. William Desportes williamdes AM pgt
2023-02-12 2023-04-08 DD, upl. Agathe Porte gagath Closed nilesh
2023-04-20 2023-07-08 DD, upl. Lukas Märdian slyon Closed nilesh
2023-04-21 2023-11-20 DD, upl. Matthias Geiger werdahias AM nilesh
2023-06-02 2023-09-15 DD, upl. François Mazen mzf Closed tobi
2023-06-11 2023-09-15 DD, upl. Andrew Ruthven puck Closed nilesh
2023-07-23 2023-12-03 DD, upl. Philip Wyett kathenas Closed
2023-10-16 2023-11-25 DD, upl. Dave Hibberd hibby AM nilesh
2023-10-24 2023-11-07 DD, upl. Taavi Väänänen taavi AM peb
Old-style processes
Applicant From To Applying for Progress AM Advocate(s)