Hello,
I would like to apply to become an official Debian member in the rank of Debian Maintainer.
My main reason for applying right in the exact moment, is that I would like to be able to upload new version of packages I currently maintain in the archive, without the need to ask every time.
I have started contributing to Debian in March this year (my first package getting uploaded), while I started learning about the software development and packaging in the previous year.
While, I had many options, of course, where to start and what Linux distribution to use, I have chosen the Debian Project, because I love that it is community maintained, has many, many people working on it (that means I can learn faster and better)
and has a predictable release schedule. This is also good that Debian has "experts" in literally every area, by having large amount of teams and working on enormous number of packages.
For what I am currently working on, I am member of the Debian Hamradio Maintainers Team (at least I think so, nobody gave me a contract to sign 😄) and I mostly focus on amateur radio related packages like:
- qlog (my first package!)
- aethersdr
- sdrangel
- mercury (the most recent one, that was ton of patching 😅)
Besides that I am trying to fix or upgrade packaging (minor changes of course, like upgrading Debhelper compat version or newer watchfiles and other general things) for other packages
in Hamradio Team or GNOME team (I would like to become a full member one day, hopefully).
I also maintain some other packages, but they aren't that important in the portfolio really.
Working on various packages gave me tons of knowledge regarding building systems, compilation and general how Linux-based systems work. I would never expect that I know some things, that used to be black magic for me,
like CMake (which I like using very much now).
Thanks for reading it,
Dawid Kulas
SP9SKA
Signed with key 0E00 DDEB 6FAB 0927 8A5C A55D 3E88 767E D102 86EC
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