John Scott
Debian Contributor
Homepage: https://johnscott.me
Email: jscott@posteo.net (OpenPGP AB181FDB41DD41C4)
IRC: pert (Libera.chat and OFTC)
XMPP: pert@member.fsf.org
I'm a fellow in the Midwest US in pursuit of mathematical and technical trickery and cleverness. I've been primarily triaging bugs for the past few years and have lately been ramping up my contributions to Debian.
Some things I really like
Debian QA, and also CrossCompiling and Clang rebuilds
- KDE's incredible offerings for documents and education, esp. math and science
Okular, Kile, and Cantor w/ SageMath
even has two plotters KmPlot and KAlgebra
GnuPG, gpgsm, Monkeysphere, and Scute
- Using the same key for OpenPGP, X.509, SSH, and other tools is fascinating.
In the past year my limited work on packages has mostly been on fixing release-critical bugs that look like my low-hanging fruit. I'm the maintainer of open-ath9k-htc-firmware, libre wireless firmware for ath9k_htc USB adapters that gets totally built from source! I'm working on doing the same for carl9170, having packaged the necessary cross toolchain.
Low Threshold NMU's
Low Threshold NMU's of packages I maintain to fix issues that need not be release-critical are allowed. However, many of my packages are maintained in teams, and it's polite to let the team and myself take a stab at a problem before making an upload.