Welcome Khashayar Naderehvandi to the -dev team.

[Khashayar Naderehvandi]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Cory K. <coryisatm at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Everyone please welcome Khashayar Naderehvandi as our dedicated backporter!!
>
> Khashayar has just recently shown up in our little corner of the world
> but has quickly shown that he has the stuff to work with us and get
> things done.
>
> His attitude is a template for exactly the people we need. Friendly,
> asks questions and open to learn. Not to mention that he already has a
> great grasp of packaging already and has a little time on his hands.
> We'll just help him fill in some gaps and show him how Ubuntu does
> things. :)
>
> He will be responsible for making sure the latest upstream packages are
> in the development release and get them backported to current ones. (no
> earlier than Hardy) The list of these apps is currently up for
> discussion. Please wait for him to start that topic. Don't reply with
> ideas here. ;)
>
> He will also be coordinating things in our PPA where packages not yet in
> the repo will be tested. Once they are in a normal archive, the will be
> removed from the PPA.
>
> So give him a pat on the back, buy him a pint, whatever. ;) And try not
> to overwhelm him with "Please oh, please back port this!! and this!! and
> this!!" :)
>
>
Thanks for the warm welcome!

Everything is still very much new to me, but I'm already having some
of that fuzzy warm feeling I've heard people get when they work with
open source projects :-)

New email to come soon on the topic of backporting. Stay tuned...

All the best,
Khashayar