Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev-announce

From: Mikle Kolyada <zlogene@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev-announce@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-project@l.g.o, toralf@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev-announce] New developer: Toralf Förster (toralf)
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 17:17:30
Message-Id: 20170619113948.GA13563@urandom
1 Good day everyone!
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3 It is my pleasure to announce the latest addition to our family.
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5 Toralf Förster is joining us from Hamburg, Germany.
6 I strongly believe that lots of people already know him as the person who works on tinderbox,
7 and he will continue work in his new status!
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9 Here is how he describes himself:
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11 I'm Toralf.
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13 I was born at the end of the 60's in the northern part of the GDR.
14 In the early 90's I made my graduate engineer in Electrical Engineering at the University Rostock ("Technical Cybernetics and Automation Technology").
15 Since end of the 90's I do live in Hamburg.
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17 In the early 90s I was influenced by the idea of "public domain".
18 A decade later I started to play with Linux.
19 I tried SuSE, looked at RedHat, installed a Gentoo - and stayed at it.
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21 At the university I coded in Turbo Pascal.
22 After the study I coded for about 5 years in C.
23 Then I preferred Perl and UN*X/shell tools.
24 Around 2003 I sneaked a little bit into Java.
25 Last year I wrote my first Python scriptlet.
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27 For the Ethereal project (today: Wireshark) I wrote a dissector [1] for the IBM Sametime protocol.
28 I made it into the commit history of the Linux kernel with [2].
29 I fuzz tested in the past with Trinity [3] x86 User Mode Linux images and uncovered few bugs in nfs (v4 mostly) and hostfs (UML).
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31 I use the hardened profile since 3 years both at my desktop and my server.
32 The later acts since 2014 amongst other things as a Gentoo tinderbox [4].
33 My plan within the Gentoo universe is to help keeping the portage tree in a acceptable quality state.
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36 --
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38 [1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1121
39 [2] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ca75b4d8799d46842350596fdc5fce7711610326
40 [3] https://github.com/kernelslacker/trinity
41 [4] https://www.zwiebeltoralf.de/tinderbox.html
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43 Please give him a warm welcome!

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