People Behind Debian - Interview Series
People Behind Debian is an interview series with people who play (important) roles in the Debian eco-system edited by Raphaël Hertzog and published e.g. on PlanetDebian.
Interviews so far
Colin Watson, the tireless man-db maintainer and a debian-installer developer
Raphaël Hertzog, dpkg maintainer, book author (Interview done by Christian Perrier)
Steve McIntyre, debian-cd maintainer, former Debian Project Leader
Josselin Mouette, founder of the pkg-gnome team, python-support maintainer
Interview partners suggested by others
Do you want to read someone specific in such an interview, add their name and maybe a short reason why below.
- Aurelien Jarno: eglibc maintainer and generic porter
- Rhonda D'Vine: Tireless Debian WWW Team member; Games packager; Ubuntu MOTU; GRML Developer; Backports FTP-Master
- Mika Prokop: GRML Project Leader, Open Source Project Management book author
- Cyril Brulebois: Debian Installer; Debian Boot Team
- Michael Meskes: Head of Credativ; maintainer of tons of ACPI stuff
- Neil Williams: Emdebian
- Christoph Berg: From NM applicant to NM Frontdesk and DAM in no time; Infrastructure Scripts and Webapps (QA, MIA), apt.postgresql.org maintainer
- Martin Zobel-Helas: Release Team, former SRM; List-Master; DSA
- Martin "Joey" Schulze: Former Debian Security Team member, former SRM
- Mario Lang: Yet another blind DD, packaging a lot of accessibility stuff
Luca Capello: Debian Events Coordinator; Merchandising producer; former Debian.ch president; DebConf13.ch bid initiator
- Christoph Egger: kFreeBSD buildd admin and porter
- Alexander Reichle-Schmehl: former FTP-Master Assistant
Holger Levsen: Piuparts, DebConf Video Team
- Petter Reinholdtsen: former Maintainer of sysvinit and insserv
- Justin B Rye: He is "the debian-l10n-english core team" - continously improving debconf templates and package descriptions.
- Beatrice Torracca - tireless Italian translator of package descriptions
- (translating) Debian contributors (still?) without Debian hats on - e.g. Davide Prina (same as Beatrice), Chris Leick, Holger Wansing.
- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo - current Aptitude maintainer
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