StephanHermann

Stephan Hermann

http://shermann.blogweb.de/img/shermann-150.jpg

Buglist (reported or working on)

Actual Projects

Server Projects

Swap from Gentoo 2005.0 to Ubuntu Hoary 5.04 == Done (http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.blogweb.de)

PYthon KDE BitTorrent Client

I'm writing a small and easy to use bittorrent client with python-kde3. At least, it's looking much nicer then KTorrent

[http://developer.berlios.org/projects/kpybt/ KPyBT Project Page on Berlios]

Work for Breezy

• Working on the CXX Transition

at least, what we should do at all for breezy Look at my buglist: [https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=UPSTREAM&bug_status=PENDINGUPLOAD&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&resolution=FIXED&resolution=INVALID&resolution=WONTFIX&resolution=NOTABUG&resolution=NOTWARTY&resolution=UNIVERSE&resolution=LATER&resolution=REMIND&resolution=DUPLICATE&resolution=WORKSFORME&resolution=MOVED&resolution=---&emailassigned_to1=1&emailreporter1=1&emailqa_contact1=1&emailcc1=1&emaillongdesc1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=sh%40sourcecode.de&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=sh%40sourcecode.de&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= shermanns buglist]

• [http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/ShtoomVoip?highlight=%28BreezyGoal%29 Shtoom Voip] - as mentioned in the Breezy Kickoff Meeting (2005-05-09), I will volunteer to help [http://www.ubuntulinux.com/wiki/ThomMay Thom May] with some stuff of his Voice Over Ip packages.

Working right now on the [http://www.iptel.org/ SIP Express Router].

It looks like, that I also have a project for KDE. Will be similar to gnome-power-manager...let's see what the logfile from the kickoff meeting says

• [https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/UpdateManager New Update Manager] Project

I wanted to write a Kynaptic replacement for Ubuntu. Now it looks like, that we should focus first on a new way to have a nicer update-manager for gnome and kde. You will find on [https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/UpdateManager this] page, some thoughts of how it will be implemented. For the implementation of a KDE frontend, we need to have a (quite) stable KDE enviroment and a working backend for the update-manager. To accomplish this, there will be some adds to python-apt.

User Support on IRC

You will find me in #ubuntu-de, #ubuntu and some other channels (not only ubuntu related) on the freenode ircserver.

Ubuntu Wiki Pages

How To Build Debian Packages From Scratch

• Writing on a howto/walkthrough for beginners on how to package sourcepackages and playing aroung with buggy upstream software.

  You can find this at HowToBuildDebianPackagesFromScratch. (Status: Work in progress - Not finished/Not usable Version: 0.1)

Local Apt-Get Repositories for Developers

• Wrote this little Howto (LocalAptGetRepositories) , just because I was fighting more than 18 hours with all this stuff.

Package Building

klibido

• A KDE Usenet Binary Extractor

vnc2swf

• A VNC screen recorder, which records VNC sessions into a Macromedia Flash&tm; movie.

  • The package itself compiles fine right now. It depends on ming-0.2a, a flash library. Until now, there is no package for ming and vnc2swf, so I'm working on it.

qinx

• a native KDE Style/Window Decoration and Color scheme (>= kde 3.2)

  • I'm a fan of David Johnsons work, so I promoted new ebuilds to Gentoo and now a package for (K)Ubuntu

grover

• a native KDE Window Decoration (>= kde 3.2)

  • I'm a fan of David Johnsons work, so I promoted a package for (K)Ubuntu

Something about me

Hello Friend,

my name is Stephan '\sh' Hermann and I'm working with Linux now for over 12 years. In my real life I'm a system administrator working in a German Cable TV Company, playing around with some SUNs and some Alphas and finally X86 boxes with Linux on it

In my spare time, if you name it, I have a couple of other projects running, first of all my own company, called sourcecode.de. After all, I'm administrating a couple of Gentoo and RedHat Boxes for a small company called [http://www.wds-tech.de/ WDS Tech], they're selling gameservers, webspace and some hardware.

The rest of my daytime is occupied for my family.

Well, you know now, that the priorities are different, from what I'm writing here.

Nevertheless, Oliver Grawert(ogra), who was working with me in the same cable tv company, "forced" me to play with Ubuntu Linux. After installing my first Hoary RC1 distribution I was quite amazed. Now I'm running Ubuntu Hoary 5.04 on my beloved HP/Compaq laptop and trying to promote some new packages.

2 years ago I went on holiday with my family to South Africa. My Ex-Wife is a southafrican indian and we visited all nice (non-tourist) places. So, I was really surprised to see Mark Shuttleworth doing this project, even with a hint to Africa. Finally, I was working with Thawte in the past, when Thawte wasn't known by anybody else then to a couple of anti-verisign guys What I forgot to say about South Africa is: If you visit Durban the next time, please visit the indian takeaway "Coconut Grove", it's really a nice place to eat (directly in front of the Durban beach) and they are making nice chilli cheese lamb burgers, chilly french fries and bunny chows (sp?) (it's a loaf of bread, and inside you will find lamb meat). If you like good wine, make a trip to Stellenbosch, it's near Cape Town (western cape), and taste some of the good red wine of South Africa.

I have to stop now with writing about South Africa, but it's really a nice, friendly, fantastic country, and I'm quite sure, in a couple of years time, I want to settle there and setup a business.

Right now I'm waiting for someone who is reviewing my KDE packages for qinx and grover [http://www.usermode.org/code.html qinx and grover homepage]. If you're a MOTU and want to review my package, please check on MOTUNewPackages.

Some stuff of my past:

1994-1999 NWU GmbH, Germany

• Technical Director, 5 years most of the time working with X86 Linux and Cisco

  trained on SecureComputing SecureZone Firewall (doesn't exit anymore, now it's called Sidewinder)

1999-2000 TroNet GmbH, Germany

• Web Application Developer and Project Manager most of the time working with X86 Linux, PHP, Perl and Cisco, developing database web application for companies like Nestle and some other local companies.

2000-2001 RedHat Europe, Germany

• EMEA Web Engineering Manager Well, nothing to say about it. I don't wanna talk about it.

2001-2003 Web4You GmbH, Germany

• Technical Director Same as NWU GmbH

2003-2004 Lycos Europe GmbH, Germany

• Internet System Specialist Many X86 Linux Boxes, mostly Debian Linux OS Many SUN Boxes, mostly Solaris OS Many Alpha Clusters, mostly running under Tru64 4.0f or 5.2

2004- ISH GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

• ISP/DTV Engineer Well, quite difficult to describe which hard/software we're using, it's a mixture of sun/hp alpha/x86 boxes and Solaris, Tru64, Linux and Windows as operating systems.

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