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[Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault AT sourcemage.org>]

Thanks Karsten for all the record you kept about me. I don't found fair 
to bring here some stuff I was not aware of (like Unet sentences). In 
order to not disturb the nomination/vote process, I'll comment on them 
later.

But I want to join the fun of all those nominations myself (before going 
 to much higher priorities, like my wedding [1]). So, i'll bring back 
someone who most of you don't know but who has been very helpfull in 
producing/testing/releasing x86-64 ISO. So, i'd like to nominate 
Francois MARTORELLO (choichoi on irc).

Laurent WANDREBECK (low) was previously helping with the x86-64 ISO, 
mainly by giving me his machine (through ssh). However, he has been so 
much fed up with SourceMage that he left [2]. So, choichoi has been 
replacing low.

He is one of those people you never heard about and which is really 
helping! I used his machine to make a full sorcery rebuid on x86-64 and 
reported bugs thanks to that. He has tested some of the ISO. Unet has 
volonteer to offer the same service but so far, that did not happen.

Another point is that the ISO Team priorities has recently (around 
January 2005 probably) changed from producing nice ISO to producing nice 
ISO build scripts that would build nice ISO in a predictible and 
documented manner. To check that he has been effective, I document the 
way ISO could be made [3] and test with choichoi. He is not fully able 
to produce ISO of his own (except some fix are underway for x86-64 on 
the stable grimoire). Seth has been using those scripts as well (thanks 
for reporting bugs btw). I think that is a major step in several ways:

- like decided, the ISO TL or PL can produce ISO themselves [4]
- it's an efficient proof that scripts are ready in p4 right now
- it's an efficient proof that documentation is available right there
- if i eventually left the project, you will still be able to produce 
nice ISO.

choichoi, anything you would like to add?

Benoit PAPILLAULT, ISO guru

[1] http://sabine-et-benoit.com/
[2] 
http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=Hall+of+Fame+for+past+developers
[3] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=ISO+generation+guide
[4] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=ISO+Release+Procedure