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About Me

I am a Debian Developer since June 2000 and was involved in various different areas since. I maintain a fair amount of packages, am part of the Debian Webmaster team and am trying to minimize the amount of open security issues in lenny-backports. I am also admin for the Games Team (Games Team in Debian wiki, Games Team in Launchpad).

Contact Information

Contributions

I am tracking the bugreports of my packages not only in Debian but also in Ubuntu. I managed to convince some people that it is actually worthwhile to forward bugs to Debian to recude the workload within Ubuntu because there is no need for merge requests anymore and checking wether they still apply cleanly. Also I am known for regularly answer questions on IRC (#ubuntu-motu, #debian-ubuntu). I also do some translation work through launchpad.

Future Goals

I'd like to reduce the diversity between Ubuntu and Debian more, especially in the packages that I maintain or am interested in (e.g. the Games Team packages). Along that lines I try to track bugreports against said package groups and suggest backports where they are considered helpful to the user base.

Testimonials

If you know me and have something nice to say, please leave a comment here.

ScottKitterman

General feedback

I have had general contact with Rhonda for quite some time in Debian and on matters of Debian/Ubuntu integration. I've also observed a lot of helpful and positive interactions on #ubuntu-motu with people trying to learn packaging for Ubuntu and people wanting to connect with Debian. As a long time DD, I've no doubt at all of Rhonda's technical skill. I see good social integration and a clear willingness to ask questions when needed. Definite +1 from me.

Specific Experiences of working together

Recently we worked together on getting wesnoth-1.8 into Ubuntu Lucid befor release and then backported for Karmic.

Areas of Improvement

There are still elements of Ubuntu specific procedure that could no doubt use more experience, but I'm comfortable with where things are now.

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== <SPONSORS NAME> ==
=== General feedback ===
## Please fill us in on your shared experience. (How many packages did you sponsor? How would you judge the quality? How would you describe the improvements? Do you trust the applicant?)

=== Specific Experiences of working together ===
''Please add good examples of your work together, but also cases that could have handled better.''
=== Areas of Improvement ===