[gentoo-dev-announce] New Developer: Andrew Savchenko (bircoph)

[Justin (jlec)]

Hello everyone,

it's a pleasure for me to introduce to you Andrew Savchenko aka. bircoph as the
latest addition to our team.

He has been a long time out-of-tree contributor to various packages including
sci-physics/root, linphone, mediastreamer or openl2tp. Now it is time for him to
work directly on the tree.

Here some lines from himself:

"""
I'm an IT engineer in the Unix technologies department of our
university working mostly on HPC solutions, though I'm also
involved in VoIP and infrastructure security issues. We're using
Gentoo in production widely ;)

Also I'm a researcher at the same university working in High Energy
Physics field and I'm working on my PhD in HEP now.

In Gentoo I'd like to participate in science, voip, cluster teams
and maintain some random packages of interest.

Other than technical stuff my interests encompass classical music
(both Western and Eastern), literature (sci-fi, historical novels
and epic fantasy), anime and cycling.

I have contributed to quite a lot of free software projects, though
most contributions are in form of patches, high quality bug
reports, translations and small improvements here and there.

Notable project I contributed to:
MPlayer, Midnight Commander (was a developer for these two), Linux
kernel, OrangeFS, Wesnoth, sdcv, openl2tp and of course Gentoo (a
lot of patches in bugzilla, proxy-maintainer for various packages).

ATM I'm one of clsync developers (it's an lsyncd replacement written
in pure C with enhanced functionality and extensibility; probably
should add this project to the tree) and symlookup dev (its a tool
for undefined symbols handling, though intersect with scanelf for
some tasks).

Also I maintain an official Russian Debian mirror located at our
university. (We have Gentoo mirror too (that's why this host was
set up in the first place), but additional mirrors aren't accepted
now.)
"""

So please join me and give Andrew a warm welcome,

Justin