svn commit: samba-web r610 - in trunk/news: style team

[deryck at samba.org]

Author: deryck
Date: 2005-03-29 20:11:22 +0000 (Tue, 29 Mar 2005)
New Revision: 610

WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba-web&rev=610

Log:

Adding announcement/interview on Derrell's joining the Team.

deryck

Added:
   trunk/news/team/welcome_derrell.html
Modified:
   trunk/news/style/news.css


Changeset:
Modified: trunk/news/style/news.css
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--- trunk/news/style/news.css	2005-03-29 19:18:13 UTC (rev 609)
+++ trunk/news/style/news.css	2005-03-29 20:11:22 UTC (rev 610)
@@ -125,3 +125,6 @@
 	padding-top:15px;
 	margin-left:17%;
 }
+.interview li {
+  list-style-type:none;
+}

Added: trunk/news/team/welcome_derrell.html
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--- trunk/news/team/welcome_derrell.html	2005-03-29 19:18:13 UTC (rev 609)
+++ trunk/news/team/welcome_derrell.html	2005-03-29 20:11:22 UTC (rev 610)
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+    <h3><a name="welcome_derrell">Welcome New Team Member Derrell Lipman</a></h3> 
+        
+    <div class="article">
+    <p>The Samba Team welcomes new member Derrell Lipman.  In addition to his
+    work with Samba, Derrell has several years of experience in software 
+    design with various start-up companies, including his own.  He's currently
+    involved with Backlot Technologies where he plays a critical role in 
+    development of the company's first product.  To properly welcome Derrell to
+    the Team, we offer up the following questions taken from a short email
+    interview.</p>
+
+    <ul class="interview">
+      <li><p><b>So how did your work with startups lead into developing Samba?</b></p>
+  
+          <p><em>I needed a way to easily access Windows shares from Linux.  
+          "mount -t smb" had proven to be unreliable, with frequent hangs of 
+          the Linux machine and an inability to access certain attribute 
+          information.  Some of the Windows machines that I needed to access 
+          were running "older" operating systems (e.g. win98), so 
+          "mount -t cifs" wouldn't work for me.  I discovered smbwrapper and 
+          smbsh, but it no longer worked on Linux and everything I read
+          in the list archives said that it wouldn't work any more because the 
+          glibc folks had removed external access to the internal interface 
+          that smbwrapper had depended on.  When I'm told "it wont work", my 
+          first reaction is typically either "Why not?" or "I can make it work!"          :-) So I re-implemented smbwrapper and smbsh using libsmbclient and 
+          dynamic linking of the C library functions.  It was a fun project, 
+          and got me into learning more about libsmbclient.</em></p>
+      </li>
+
+      <li><p><b>How long have you been submitting patches to Samba?</b></p>
+
+          <p><em>My first patch was submitted about 3 years ago, I think.  I 
+          have not submitted numerous patches, but some have been fairly 
+          involved and, I believe, well tested prior to submission.</em></p>
+
+          <p><em>I submitted my rewrite of smbwrapper/smbsh a few times, but it 
+          is really libsmbclient example code, and was never of sufficient 
+          priority to make it into the tree.  I fixed that as one of my first 
+          tasks as a team member!  It's now in the SAMBA_3_0 tree under 
+          examples/libsmbclient/smbwrapper.</em></p>
+      </li>
+
+      <li><p><b>What will you be working on now that you are part of the Team?</b></p>
+
+          <p><em>I was brought in to help maintain libsmbclient.  Since         
+          providing better ways to access Windows machines from Unix/Linux is  
+          my primary interest here, that seems fitting.</em></p> 
+      </li>
+    </ul>
+
+    </div>
+        
+