I'm not a Debian Developer yet, but I'm contributing to Debian since around the end of 2006. I'm sitting in the [https://nm.debian.org/nmstatus.php?email=schoenfeld%40in-medias-res.com NM Queue], waiting for an AM.

Starting with co-maintaining [http://packages.debian.org/smstools smstools] and adopting [http://packages.debian.org/mantis mantis] to bring it in a good shape, I became more involved with Debian over the past months, by adopting or creating new packages, providing patches to mostly trivial problems (such as missing manpages, missing or defunctioning debian/watch files, FTBFS-errors etc.) and providing one QA upload.

[http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=schoenfeld@in-medias-res.com My QA Developer page]

BTW. I maintain all my packages in the collab-maint Subversion Repository at Alioth. So if anyfound finds a bug that I cannot fix in a reasonable time for some reason, and you have access to collab-maint, feel free to commit changes to my packages. Besides that: I don't have problems with low waiting times for NMU'ing my packages (in fact I appreciate that), but normally I'm contactable and responsive so please give me at least a day to respond:)

My goals for my work in Debian

I'm not working to become part of a specific team or reach into the "higher" levels at Debian. What I want to do is enhancement. By providing good packages and helping here and there. I'm happy if my contributions help others to do their work better and off course I like fixing my own problems ;)

Provided patches:

[http://bugs.debian.org/462686 #462686] - Make debcommit work with colordiff

[http://bugs.debian.org/462758 #462758] - Add option to debcommit to enable the user to edit the commit message before actually comitting :)

[http://bugs.debian.org/457977 #457977] - Add option to dget to --build a package after download

[http://bugs.debian.org/459888 #459888] - Not my patch, but I investigated into this problem, found that patch and reported the solution to the BTS.

[http://bugs.debian.org/454409 #454400] - Fix the (new) sudo password prompt by adding a placeholder %p to be supported by sudo that always requests the password of the person whose password is required instead of always 'root'.

[http://bugs.debian.org/399699 #399699] - manpage for grub-set-default

[http://bugs.debian.org/442477 #442477] - manpage for bashbug (however; not yet integratedn and besides there are two other provided manpages, where one that was provided after mine is probably the better choice)

[http://bugs.debian.org/449434 #449434] - manpage for gconf-schemas

Provided QA upload(s):

[http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dillo/news/20071129T141708Z.html dillo (0.8.6-1)]