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From: Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] New developer: Toralf Förster (toralf)
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 19:57:52
Message-Id: 6610df6a-d43c-1175-6b9f-2e9724d064c6@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] New developer: Toralf Förster (toralf) by Mikle Kolyada
1 On 06/19/2017 04:39 AM, Mikle Kolyada wrote:
2 > Good day everyone!
3 >
4 > It is my pleasure to announce the latest addition to our family.
5 >
6 > Toralf Förster is joining us from Hamburg, Germany.
7 > I strongly believe that lots of people already know him as the person who works on tinderbox,
8 > and he will continue work in his new status!
9 >
10 > Here is how he describes himself:
11 >
12 > I'm Toralf.
13 >
14 > I was born at the end of the 60's in the northern part of the GDR.
15 > In the early 90's I made my graduate engineer in Electrical Engineering at the University Rostock ("Technical Cybernetics and Automation Technology").
16 > Since end of the 90's I do live in Hamburg.
17 >
18 > In the early 90s I was influenced by the idea of "public domain".
19 > A decade later I started to play with Linux.
20 > I tried SuSE, looked at RedHat, installed a Gentoo - and stayed at it.
21 >
22 > At the university I coded in Turbo Pascal.
23 > After the study I coded for about 5 years in C.
24 > Then I preferred Perl and UN*X/shell tools.
25 > Around 2003 I sneaked a little bit into Java.
26 > Last year I wrote my first Python scriptlet.
27 >
28 > For the Ethereal project (today: Wireshark) I wrote a dissector [1] for the IBM Sametime protocol.
29 > I made it into the commit history of the Linux kernel with [2].
30 > 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).
31 >
32 > I use the hardened profile since 3 years both at my desktop and my server.
33 > The later acts since 2014 amongst other things as a Gentoo tinderbox [4].
34 > My plan within the Gentoo universe is to help keeping the portage tree in a acceptable quality state.
35 >
36 >
37 > --
38 >
39 > [1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1121
40 > [2] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ca75b4d8799d46842350596fdc5fce7711610326
41 > [3] https://github.com/kernelslacker/trinity
42 > [4] https://www.zwiebeltoralf.de/tinderbox.html
43 >
44 > Please give him a warm welcome!
45 >
46 Shows you what I know, I thought you were already a developer! Good to
47 see you formally joining. You've personally helped find a few bugs in
48 packages I maintain, so thank you very much for your work!
49
50 ~zlg
51
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