MOTU Application for Fabien Tassin (fta)

Alexander Sack asac at ubuntu.com
Mon Aug 25 14:35:29 BST 2008


On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 01:16:21PM -0300, Cody A.W. Somerville wrote:
>    On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Scott Kitterman
>    <[1]ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
>    <snip>
> 
>      Looking at his packages page I see 10 uploads of 8 packages (all but one
>      Mozilla related).  I don't recall seeing any activity in #ubuntu-motu.
>       I
>      don't know how extensive his involvement in the other 10 packages he
>      lists
>      on his application were, but even with them it seems a thin list (and
>      this
>      is without discounting the ones in Main as we are apparently supposed to
>      do
>      now).
> 
>      fta may well be perfectly capable, but I don't know of any significant
>      community or technicaly track record that supports the assertion?
> 
>    I share this sentiment. I've never seen or heard of this individual
>    before.


I haven't seen or heard of you before as well (until a few weeks
ago). Does it matter? Or does it indicate that your contributions are
non-substantial? I dont think so. Its just that i am not working on
the same areas that you are engaged in.

Actually, I don't understand that you are commenting here at all -
given that you have never interfaced with him (in neither a positive
nor negative way). Its your right to do so, but why do you think that
you have a qualified enough opinion to put into this thread?



FWIW, Fabien doesnt make _any_ noise (and rarely speaks on -motu) - he
works hard instead. When he started to contribute i frequently sent
him to -motu to ask for review/sponsors for his work. What happened?
Unsuprisingly he was sent back to me. Thus, most packages sponsored
went through me (reason for the lack of visiblity in -motu).

Also most mozilla packages we ship are all maintained by us - means:
more work for each individual upload compared to most packages where
we just maintain merges (reason for the lack of a terrific upload
count).

Last but not least remember that universe desparately lacks mozilla
MOTUs. And here he is: skilled enough that I would entrust him to
maintain and upload any existing and any future mozilla package;
standalone apps, xulrunner apps, extensions, plugins and so on.


 - Alexander




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