Self-Introduction: Riku Meskanen

[Riku Meskanen]

1. Full legal name:	Riku Herman Meskanen
2. Country, City:	Finland, Jyvaskyla
3. Profession:		Systems Design Analyst
4. School:		University of Jyvaskyla / Computing Center

5. Your goals in the Fedora Project

   - It's hard give any list of packages, but I'm mostly
     interested about features that improves system security,
     streamline the server setup and administration among others
     and making the system rock solid.

     I prefer systems that have fairly small base set and good tools
     to add/remove/upgrade well thought package sets or individual
     packages.

     I'm big fan of LVM (both HP-UX & Linux) mirroring, easy recovery
     tehniques (Mondo rescue is quite good), clustering, failover and
     load balancing features etc. and I think these features should
     be relatively easy to set up ... and I don't mean we need always
     a fancy GUI or Web-front setting it all up. A reasonable text
     based UI and editor are just fine when setting up server features.
     If GUI is needed by some and provided it should be optional.

   - QA?: I don't have much free time, but sure at least
     the packages I've been occationally contributing earlier,
     proposing new packages/features etc.

   - Anything else special?

     Nope, or wait, don't take my long posts (rants) too seriously if I
     happen to  enter that mode! There is often a good point too, try to
     see the forest out of trees if that happens :)

6. Historical qualifications

   o What other project have you worked on in the past?

   - I've contributed some tiny fixes and added features mostly
     contributing directly to so developers past 15 years and built
     initial or improved some RPM packagaging since -96. Just to
     mention few packages lets say ethereal, nmap and scanssh,
     code submission I haven't much done last years, but there
     is still some code I wrote in SysVinit (see killall5.c),
     some of the hacks, proposals etc. I've done can be found from
     http://people.jyu.fi/~mesrik/rpms/ (The /~mesrik/ level doesn't
     seem to currently work, there is agan some strange problem with
     suexec and LDAP home directories ... you can see same page
     from http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~mesrik/ if there is a need)

   o What computer languages and other skills do you know?

   - I'm not really a programmer. I'm more data network & unix
     sysadmin. But I know fairly well all std Unix tools & programs
     and have 15+ years experience setting up and administering
     fairly big systems too. When I program nowadays it's mostly
     perl and some C (long time ago I've earned 7.5 years my living with
     coding C) but I don't do that as much these days. When contributing
     misellaneous  bits and bobs some existing software usually the
     developer(s) has already chosen tools and languages & writing style
     which I need to adapt thus I've learned usually figure out my way to
     write other languages  too :) BTW, more Python developed systems I've
     seen more interested I've become of it, but I can't really say I know
     it yet.

   o Why should we trust you? <--- too blunt?

   - Not too blunt at all, but I don't see a problem here.
     And if you don't you propably need to start removing
     few Linux/Unix packages ... been there done that already ;)

7. GPG KEYID and fingerprint

pub  1024D/35B3B739 2002-06-09 Riku Meskanen <mesrik at cc.jyu.fi>
     Key fingerprint = B8D6 3817 3F8D 544F CEAC  6345 131B 734E 35B3 B739
sub  2048g/903B9B45 2002-06-09

Anything else just ask me, please.

:-) riku

ps.	mesrik[AT]iki.fi is the same person ie. me. It's my private
	address if it's a interest of anyone. I used it once
	building a package while leave of absense.
-- 
Riku Meskanen <mesrik at cc.jyu.fi>
Systems Design Analyst                          Voice: +358 14 260 3580
University of Jyvaskyla / Computing Center      Fax:   +358 14 260 3611
P.O. Box 35 (MaD), FIN-40014 JYVASKYLAN YLIOPISTO, Finland