Re: [gentoo-project] New Developer: Andrew Savchenko (bircoph)

[Andrew Savchenko]

Hi,

On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 18:22:07 +0100 Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
>
> Welcome (and better switch on autorejoin on irc :)!

Oh, I know what you're implying :)
I was kicked so many times now (-_-)'

> We can probably add a Russian conspiracy to the German one by now (not to
> mention the physicist cabal)... :D

We're here and there and everywhere ;)

> Am Mittwoch 12 November 2014, 09:05:33 schrieb Justin:
> > 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
>


Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko