Re: [gentoo-project] New developer: Toralf Förster (toralf)

[Daniel Campbell <zlg@gentoo.org>]

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On 06/19/2017 04:39 AM, Mikle Kolyada wrote:
> Good day everyone!
> 
> It is my pleasure to announce the latest addition to our family.
> 
> Toralf Förster is joining us from Hamburg, Germany.
> I strongly believe that lots of people already know him as the person who works on tinderbox,
> and he will continue work in his new status!
> 
> Here is how he describes himself:
> 
> I'm Toralf.
> 
> I was born at the end of the 60's in the northern part of the GDR.
> In the early 90's I made my graduate engineer in Electrical Engineering at the University Rostock ("Technical Cybernetics and Automation Technology").
> Since end of the 90's I do live in Hamburg.
> 
> In the early 90s I was influenced by the idea of "public domain".
> A decade later I started to play with Linux.
> I tried SuSE, looked at RedHat, installed a Gentoo - and stayed at it.
> 
> At the university I coded in Turbo Pascal.
> After the study I coded for about 5 years in C.
> Then I preferred Perl and UN*X/shell tools.
> Around 2003 I sneaked a little bit into Java.
> Last year I wrote my first Python scriptlet.
> 
> For the Ethereal project (today: Wireshark) I wrote a dissector [1] for the IBM Sametime protocol.
> I made it into the commit history of the Linux kernel with [2].
> I fuzz tested in the past with Trinity [3] x86 User Mode Linux images and uncovered few bugs in nfs (v4 mostly) and hostfs (UML).
> 
> I use the hardened profile since 3 years both at my desktop and my server.
> The later acts since 2014 amongst other things as a Gentoo tinderbox [4].
> My plan within the Gentoo universe is to help keeping the portage tree in a acceptable quality state.
> 
> 
> --
> 
> [1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1121
> [2] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ca75b4d8799d46842350596fdc5fce7711610326
> [3] https://github.com/kernelslacker/trinity
> [4] https://www.zwiebeltoralf.de/tinderbox.html
> 
> Please give him a warm welcome!
> 
Shows you what I know, I thought you were already a developer! Good to
see you formally joining. You've personally helped find a few bugs in
packages I maintain, so thank you very much for your work!

~zlg

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