Re: [gentoo-project] New Developer: Andrew Savchenko (bircoph)

[Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gentoo.org>]

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Hi,

On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:51:32 +0900 heroxbd@gentoo.org wrote:
[...]
> > I'm an IT engineer in the Unix technologies department of our
> > university working mostly on HPC solutions, though I'm also
> > involved in VoIP and infrastructure security issues. We're using
> > Gentoo in production widely ;)
> >
> > Also I'm a researcher at the same university working in High Energy
> > Physics field and I'm working on my PhD in HEP now.
> 
> That will make you a heavy sci-physics/root user, I suppose;)

Yes, root and pythia are my main research tools. Geant is used too,
but to a much less degree.
 
> > In Gentoo I'd like to participate in science, voip, cluster teams
> > and maintain some random packages of interest.
> >
> > Other than technical stuff my interests encompass classical music
> > (both Western and Eastern), literature (sci-fi, historical novels
> > and epic fantasy), anime and cycling.
> >
> > I have contributed to quite a lot of free software projects, though
> > most contributions are in form of patches, high quality bug
> > reports, translations and small improvements here and there.
> >
> > Notable project I contributed to:
> > MPlayer, Midnight Commander (was a developer for these two), Linux
> > kernel, OrangeFS, Wesnoth, sdcv, openl2tp and of course Gentoo (a
> > lot of patches in bugzilla, proxy-maintainer for various packages).
> >
> > ATM I'm one of clsync developers (it's an lsyncd replacement written
> > in pure C with enhanced functionality and extensibility; probably
> > should add this project to the tree) and symlookup dev (its a tool
> > for undefined symbols handling, though intersect with scanelf for
> > some tasks).
> >
> > Also I maintain an official Russian Debian mirror located at our
> > university. (We have Gentoo mirror too (that's why this host was
> > set up in the first place), but additional mirrors aren't accepted
> > now.)
> > """
> 
> Very admirable experience. I am looking forward to cooperating with you
> more in the science herd.

Yeah, I have a lot of bugs to fix and stuff to do now :)

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko

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