svn commit: samba-web r804 - in trunk: news/team team
deryck at samba.org
deryck at samba.org
Sun Sep 4 22:18:19 GMT 2005
Author: deryck
Date: 2005-09-04 22:18:19 +0000 (Sun, 04 Sep 2005)
New Revision: 804
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba-web&rev=804
Log:
Add news item on James joining them Team (procrastination
seemed to hit James and I both especially hard while trying
to get this done. :-)
Also, put James in alphabtical order on the team page.
deryck
Added:
trunk/news/team/jpeach_welcome.html
Modified:
trunk/team/index.html
Changeset:
Added: trunk/news/team/jpeach_welcome.html
===================================================================
--- trunk/news/team/jpeach_welcome.html 2005-09-02 13:44:44 UTC (rev 803)
+++ trunk/news/team/jpeach_welcome.html 2005-09-04 22:18:19 UTC (rev 804)
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+ <h3><a name="jpeach_welcome">Samba Team Welcomes New Team Member James Peach</a></h3>
+
+ <div class="article">
+ <p>The Samba Team welcomes new Samba Team member, James Peach.
+ James has worked in the SGI's Australian engineering team for a number
+ of years, prior to which he worked on automated network discovery at
+ Avaya Labs. At SGI he has worked on numerous file serving and networking
+ projects including POSIX compliance, naming and PAM, NFS and NAS server
+ management and monitoring.</p>
+
+ <p>Nowadays he spends most of his time on Samba, splitting his time between
+ helping SGI customers with Samba problems and making sure that Samba
+ runs well on scalable InfiniteStorage NAS systems. His main Samba focus
+ is on performance and scalability, integration of Samba within a storage
+ software stack, and file server management.</p>
+
+ <p>The following is taken from a recent email interview with James:</p>
+
+ <ul class="interview">
+ <li>
+ <p><b>When did you first start to take in interest in hacking
+ on Samba?</b></p>
+
+ <p><em>There was some internal reorganisation and maintenance of the SGI Samba
+ product was assigned to my group which is involved in various storage
+ and fileserving projects.</em></p>
+
+ <p><em>After some discussions with customers, we realised that there were areas
+ where we needed better Samba integration with the SGI software suite and
+ areas where we needed to provide some performance improvements. This led
+ to me becoming the SGI Samba maintainer on a most-time basis (that's
+ full-time minus all the other stuff I have to do). </em></p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p><b>You've got a long history of feeding patches to Team members before
+ joining the Team. What areas in Samba have you worked on in the past?</b></p>
+
+ <p><em>I started with a set of trivial patches that were specific to the IRIX
+ environment and toolchain and I tend to fix IRIX build breakages when
+ they occasionally happen. I'd like to think that my crufty directory
+ traversal patch prompted Jeremy to fix the long standing performance
+ problems enumerating large directories. I do need to sit down and push
+ some of my patch backlog into svn though.</em></p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p><b>Now that you're a part of the Team, what will your work focus on?</b></p>
+
+ <p><em>Probably much the same. Within SGI we are really interested in
+ scalability, so I'll be continuing to look at scaling Samba on high cpu
+ count Altix and Origin servers.</em></p>
+
+ <p><em>I'd like to be able to do more to increase the observability of Samba,
+ so I'm planning on putting out an updated
+ <a href="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp">PCP agent</a> soon, but that's really the
+ tip of the iceberg. I'd also like to do more work in creating stable interfaces
+ that other projects can use to develop software on top of Samba.</em></p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p><b>How has being a part of the Samba Team for for the last month changed
+ your life? ;-)</b></p>
+
+ <p><em>Not very much so far. I'm trying to be a bit more conscientious about
+ following the mailing lists.</em></p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>For others interested in following Samba development (or maybe in
+ helping with Samba development),
+ <a href="https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba-technical">samba-technical at lists.samba.org</a>
+ and <a href="/samba/irc.html">#samba-technical</a> is the best place to
+ catch James and the rest of the Samba Team.</p>
+
+ </div>
+
+
Modified: trunk/team/index.html
===================================================================
--- trunk/team/index.html 2005-09-02 13:44:44 UTC (rev 803)
+++ trunk/team/index.html 2005-09-04 22:18:19 UTC (rev 804)
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
<li><a href="mailto:jfm at samba.org">Jean Francois Micouleau</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:lmuelle at samba.org">Lars Müller</a></li>
+<li><a href="mailto:jpeach at samba.org">James Peach</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:tpot at samba.org">Tim Potter</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:brian at samba.org">Brian Roberson</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.richardsharpe.com">Richard Sharpe</a></li>
@@ -76,7 +77,6 @@
<li><a href="http://samba.org/~tridge/">Andrew Tridgell</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:jelmer at samba.org">Jelmer Vernooij</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:mhw at samba.org">Michael Warfield</a></li>
-<li><a href="mailto:jpeach at samba.org">James Peach</a></li>
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