svn commit: samba-web r694 - in trunk/news/team: .

[deryck at samba.org]

Author: deryck
Date: 2005-06-14 14:42:57 +0000 (Tue, 14 Jun 2005)
New Revision: 694

WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba-web&rev=694

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Adding Lars welcome announcment and interview article to news.samba.org.

deryck

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+    <h3><a name="lars_welcome">Samba Team Welcomes New Member Lars M&uuml;ller</a></h3> 
+        
+    <div class="article">
+      <p>We are pleased to welcome Lars M&uuml;ller to the Samba Team.  Lars has
+      been following the Samba project for a couple years now.  Lars began with 
+      Samba as a part of Linux admin work at the University of G&ouml;ttingen.  
+      There he was also involved in the creation of a campus wide network for 
+      students.  Later, he started to work as a Linux support engineer.  Both 
+      jobs required that Lars build customized Samba packages.  He is currently 
+      in charge of Samba at SuSE Linux.</p>
+
+      <p>Lars began very early in his work at SuSE to submit all of his
+      modifications upstream.  He has actively worked with Samba Team members
+      to coordinate the inclusion and maintenance of his patches and has shown
+      his commitment to Samba and Open Source/Free Software by attending
+      several events and conferences.</p>
+
+      <p>The following is taken from an email interview conducted just after
+      Lars accepted the invitation to join the Samba Team.</p>
+
+      <ul class="interview">
+        <li>
+        <p><b>You've been working on Samba for awhile now.  Do you see 
+        being a part of the Samba Team affecting or changing the way you work 
+        on Samba?</b></p>
+
+        <p><em>Above all I expect some extra work.  As I got the feeling of an 
+        open, communicative, and competent Team at mailing list, IRC and events,
+        I expect an improvement to my technical and social skills.  I'm far away
+        from being bugfree in both directions. ;)</em></p>
+
+        <p><em>But back to the question:  I don't expect big changes in the way 
+        I work on Samba as I already tried to align all of the Novell/ SuSE work
+        regarding Samba with the Team as close as possible.  Therfore Samba.org
+        efforts and my daytime work shouldn't conflict.  I hope the opposite is
+        the case and we'll have benefits for both.  </em></p>
+
+        <p><em>The biggest difference results from the write access I'll have 
+        to the subversion tree.  My old position allowed me to open bugs,       
+        attach a  suggested patch, send a mail to samba-technical, and ask one 
+        week later if this patch was garbage.  </em></p>
+        </li>
+
+        <li>
+        <p><b>Since you started as a sys-admin, how did you move into Samba
+        development?  Was this a difficult shift to make?</b></p>
+
+        <p><em>Mostly missing features and problems reported by customers moved 
+        me to Samba development.  I started with reading the Samba lists, rebuilding
+        packages, and grabbing single patches.  But it happened that a problem
+        wasn't addressed upstream or wasn't solved acceptable for a Linux
+        vendor.  IIRC we had such a situation with CUPS and raw printing.  That
+        was the time when I started to get a more detailed picture of the Samba
+        source code.  And cscope and ctags are still very helpful.</em></p>
+
+        <p><em>In my case it was a slow and not so difficult shift.  It was slow as I
+        first did support and on-site consulting.  Here Samba's debug levels
+        were gold.  The output redirected me to the source code.  As I had
+        programmed in C before it also wasn't a too difficult shift.</em></p>
+        </li>
+
+        <li>
+        <p><b>So what will you be working on now that you are part of the 
+        Team?</b></p>
+
+        <p><em>I'll try to help with open issues in bugzilla to reduce our bug count.
+        Beside that I'll try to enhance Samba 3.  It's our bread and butter
+        release at the moment.</em></p>
+
+        <p><em>Lately I worked on migration issues.  That work included a new sub
+        command to the net tool to print a report of the content of an existing
+        share.</em></p>
+        </li>
+      </ul>
+    </div>
+        
+