Keith Packard added to the Debian Technical Committee

[Posted December 2, 2013 by corbet]

From:		Lucas Nussbaum <leader-AT-debian.org>
To:		debian-devel-announce-AT-lists.debian.org
Subject:		Technical committee appointment
Date:		Fri, 29 Nov 2013 17:11:52 +0100
Message-ID:		<20131129161152.GA9909@xanadu.blop.info>
Cc:		keithp-AT-debian.org

Hi,

As defined by our constitution (§ 6.2.2), the Technical Committee has just 
recommended[1] the appointment of Keith Packard <keithp> as a member of
the TC.

I am very happy to follow this recommendation, and have now confirmed that
Keith didn't change his mind after looking at the interesting challenges
ahead. ;)

Keith, welcome to our Technical Committee!

For reference, the members of the Debian Technical Committee are now:

     chairman     Bdale Garbee
     member       Russ Allbery 
     member       Don Armstrong 
     member       Andreas Barth 
     member       Ian Jackson 
     member       Steve Langasek 
     member       Keith Packard
     member       Colin Watson

- Lucas

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/11/ms...

Keith Packard added to the Debian Technical Committee

Posted Dec 7, 2013 7:01 UTC (Sat) by betanews (guest, #93606) [Link] (3 responses)

I just found yet another package that Debian maintains like shit.

http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-visual.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-visual/+...
http://www.vpython.org/contents/download_linux.html
http://www.linuxgazette.net/144/john.html

Keith Packard added to the Debian Technical Committee

Posted Dec 7, 2013 11:53 UTC (Sat) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link]

Thank you for your overly insightful and relevant contribution.
It was absolutely needed!

Keith Packard added to the Debian Technical Committee

Posted Dec 8, 2013 12:03 UTC (Sun) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

I await your patches!

Keith Packard added to the Debian Technical Committee

Posted Dec 9, 2013 8:37 UTC (Mon) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]

> ... Debian maintains ...

Debian doesn't maintain anything. All work in Debian is done by volunteers. If you don't like the volunteer's work, the only sensible course of action is to help, including *constructive* criticism (which doesn't help if the volunteer simply doesn't have time, though).

Your contribution is always welcome.

(Disclaimer: I'm not a DD, just a grateful user :) )