Motu application for Emanuele Gentili (emgent)

[Stephan Hermann]

Good Evening fellow MOTUs,


I had the opportunity to work with Emanuele since he started to work on
Ubuntu.
He is very enthusiastic about security and and the resulting -security
packages. I worked with him for quite some time, and I was very
satisfied with what I saw from him. 
Yes, a few glitches, but nobody is perfect.

For Intrepid I was sponsoring some packages for him, and was also very
satisfied, so I can agree here very much with Luca. 

Emanuele is a funny person and very committed. Sometimes he could need
some Valerian, but the inner peace comes with age ;)

Anyways, regarding security work, I just watched over the packages, but
the final word, as always, had Kees or JD...so I think it's better to
read their judgement regarding -security work.

Regarding Merges I'll see Emanuele a good catch for MOTU, and I would
like to see his MOTU-Badge soon.

Well Done Emanuele,

Regards,

Stephan aka \sh


On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:22:50 +0200
Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz at ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> I asked Emanuele not to list me in his previous applications since I
> had no chance to sponsor any of his works since they were targeted for
> $distro-security.
> 
> During his first steps as new contributor, he was one of my mentee. He
> came from Gentoo development, so he was already familiar with patches
> and how to grab upstream fixes, he just needed guidance on
> Debian/Ubuntu tools and he learned how to use them quickly, so there
> was no need to be his mentor again.
> 
> During Intrepid development cycle, I had the occasion to sponsor some
> of his requests (mostly merges/syncs). Overall quality was good,
> there were some minor details I wanted to be adjusted, he always
> replied quickly and package was finally ready for upload.
> I think he has skills to go unassisted. As long as he keeps working
> with MOTU team, I trust he will ask advices from other developers
> about procedures if unsure on how to proceed. This will become more
> and more important as we will get close to the release.
> 
> Daniel Holbach ha scritto:
> | Sponsors of Emanuele: how did you experience working with Emanuele?
> Do | you feel that the concerns I had are/were justified or just not
> true any | more?
> 
> I suggested him to prefer public channels instead of private queries
> when asking for things related to development purposes. This way,
> everyone can join the discussion and eventually correct wrong advices.
> 
> About "pushing people to get things done", there were cases where
> Emanuele asked me to upload things directly without passing through
> u-u-s queue. In case of urgency, I was happy to upload packages,
> otherwise I subscribed u-u-s queue and package were uploaded shortly
> during regular code rewiew activities. This is the common workflow,
> and I'm happy to give priority to older debdiffs, just to demonstrate
> we sponsor things with short delays.
> 
> - --
> Luca Falavigna
> Ubuntu MOTU Developer
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