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From: Seemant Kulleen <seemantk@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] New Developer: Andrew Savchenko (bircoph)
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 08:12:48
Message-Id: CAJEWDoVo-uF+t=hX-i5QxsRmSuyZK96j9m=VcgbUqbEdy_cfKw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] New Developer: Andrew Savchenko (bircoph) by "Justin (jlec)"
1 How awesome! Welcome to Gentoo, bircoph! Glad to see the team is growing
2 with high quality contributors!!
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4 Cheers,
5 Seemant
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14 On 12 November 2014 00:05, Justin (jlec) <jlec@g.o> wrote:
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16 > Hello everyone,
17 >
18 > it's a pleasure for me to introduce to you Andrew Savchenko aka. bircoph
19 > as the
20 > latest addition to our team.
21 >
22 > He has been a long time out-of-tree contributor to various packages
23 > including
24 > sci-physics/root, linphone, mediastreamer or openl2tp. Now it is time for
25 > him to
26 > work directly on the tree.
27 >
28 > Here some lines from himself:
29 >
30 > """
31 > I'm an IT engineer in the Unix technologies department of our
32 > university working mostly on HPC solutions, though I'm also
33 > involved in VoIP and infrastructure security issues. We're using
34 > Gentoo in production widely ;)
35 >
36 > Also I'm a researcher at the same university working in High Energy
37 > Physics field and I'm working on my PhD in HEP now.
38 >
39 > In Gentoo I'd like to participate in science, voip, cluster teams
40 > and maintain some random packages of interest.
41 >
42 > Other than technical stuff my interests encompass classical music
43 > (both Western and Eastern), literature (sci-fi, historical novels
44 > and epic fantasy), anime and cycling.
45 >
46 > I have contributed to quite a lot of free software projects, though
47 > most contributions are in form of patches, high quality bug
48 > reports, translations and small improvements here and there.
49 >
50 > Notable project I contributed to:
51 > MPlayer, Midnight Commander (was a developer for these two), Linux
52 > kernel, OrangeFS, Wesnoth, sdcv, openl2tp and of course Gentoo (a
53 > lot of patches in bugzilla, proxy-maintainer for various packages).
54 >
55 > ATM I'm one of clsync developers (it's an lsyncd replacement written
56 > in pure C with enhanced functionality and extensibility; probably
57 > should add this project to the tree) and symlookup dev (its a tool
58 > for undefined symbols handling, though intersect with scanelf for
59 > some tasks).
60 >
61 > Also I maintain an official Russian Debian mirror located at our
62 > university. (We have Gentoo mirror too (that's why this host was
63 > set up in the first place), but additional mirrors aren't accepted
64 > now.)
65 > """
66 >
67 > So please join me and give Andrew a warm welcome,
68 >
69 > Justin
70 >
71 >