MOTU application for Jonathan Thomas (JontheEchidna)

[Harald Sitter]

I had to spend half an hour fixing my mail client again, just to reply to this 
mail, but here it comes :D

On Friday 19 December 2008 01:55:15 you wrote:
> Also on the KDE front, I lead the packaging effort for the first beta of
> KDE 4.2 2 weeks ago. I was in charge of organizing the whole thing and
> reviewing/testbuilding the KDE packagers as our wonderful team of ninjas
> produced them. Harald can attest to how good of a job I did leading KDE 4.2
> beta1 packaging.

*attest*

Jonathan did, does, probably always will do perfect work. I think he reviewed 
~60% of the KDE 4.1.80 (beta1 of 4.2 that is) packaging.

Now I probably have to explain... at Kubuntu we have a special task force 
called Kubuntu Ninjas. Those fellows update the KDE core packaging (+extra 
applications that are bound to the KDE release schedule) upon each KDE 
release. Since this is a community effort it is necessary to coordinate the 
workforce (maybe even redistribute?) and of course review the work of all 
contributors.
Therefore the coordinator also is the last point of QA and thus needs to be 
particularly  precise.

Really, Jonathan has proven to be very precise. He resolved pretty much all 
flaws in the packages, all the major ones anyway. So I think I would even 
support a core-dev application ;-)

Anyway, I am drifting off topic again... so let me make it short.

Jonathan
* is working really hard
* is very trustworthy
* knows a good deal about packaging
* always wants to learn new stuff (I would go as far as saying he assimilates 
everything, so he must be a Borg... would also have been a sensible reason not 
to go to UDS ;-)

In addition to that Kubuntu needs him, KDE needs him, Ubuntu needs him and the 
archives do as well.

+5k from me.

Also. Thank you Jonathan!

regards,
Harald