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  • From: francois <francois.martorello AT laposte.net>
  • To: Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault AT sourcemage.org>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Nominations for ISO Team Lead
  • Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 07:38:01 +0200

Benoit PAPILLAULT wrote:

> 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
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I think I could be able to help the ISO team to test the isos and report
bugs on x86-64 platform.
thanks benoit to this nomination :).




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