Self-Introduction: Tom Yates

Sat Sep 11 09:41:35 UTC 2004

Tom Yates wrote:
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> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Eric Rostetter wrote:
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>> Basic steps are:
>>
> [stuff i've done already]
> 
>> * Introduce yourself to the list, with your pgp key (see docs on the 
>> wiki)
> 
> 
> greetings!  i am Tom Yates, i live in Cambridge, UK, whence i've spent 
> the past six years running a small free software consultancy business 
> (http://www.gatekeeper.ltd.uk).  most other biographical information can 
> be found at http://www.teaparty.net/cv/tom/ .  briefly, my historical 
> qualifications are fifteen years of unix sysadminning, and co-authorship 
> of "Building Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls" (Wiley, 2000).  i have no idea 
> why you should trust me; that's your call.
> 
> my specific RH legacy interest is RH9, as teaparty.net is a colocated 
> server running RH9.  all my home boxes are at various versions of FC, 
> but as teaparty.net is near the other Cambridge (Massachusetts), 
> upgrading it isn't likely to happen any time soon.  i am very grateful 
> to the FL project for enabling me to keep it in patch without having to 
> fly over and upgrade.
> 
> teaparty.net isn't just a vanity box.  it provides a smorgasbord of 
> shell, webmail, mailing lists, IMAPS/POPS, spam filtering, DNS hosting, 
> web hosting and/or redirection, secure socks proxying, and like 
> services, from which a community of about 25 non-paying, 
> personally-known users select the services they wish to use.
> 
> i also maintain a second server, hosted by a kind donor company in 
> cambridge, which provides a deployment platform for linux-oriented
> tibetans who operate out of dharamsala, in north india.  there's a long 
> story behind that one.
> 
> i'm currently applying anything relevant to either box as soon as it 
> appears in updates-testing, so my aim for the project is to provide 
> feedback on these packages in a live environment.  i'm looking at using 
> FL to support a number of production RH73 boxes for a client of mine, so 
> later, i may be able to provide feedback on 73 builds as well.
> 
> my key is appended.  i do apologise, but for hysterical raisins my list- 
> subscription address (madlists@) is *not* my main email address, and 
> isn't on the key.  for the avoidance of doubt: i do everything *except* 
> post to mailing lists as madhatter@, which *is* on the key, so please 
> don't let the slight mismatch between the usernames confuse you.  the 
> 1024 bit key's fingerprint is 8AAC D1B1 FCA8 1019 99B1 9D65 78FB 6F29 
> 5DF5 CF0E.
> 
>> * Report your results as a pgp clearsigned message to the Bugzilla 
>> system.
>>  If you are voting for a publish state, then make this clear in the 
>> message
>>  (such as putting in it "I VOTE TO PUBLISH" or "PUBLISH++").
> 
> 
> a question of nomenclature is "publish" the decision to move stuff into 
> updates-testing, or from updates-testing to updates?
> 

You add publish when you have tested a package and then when two ppl 
have done that we can move it to updates-testing.

This is one area where we need ppl so please QA packages.

> 
> - --
>   Tom Yates
>   Cambridge, UK.
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