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

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

[Mikle Kolyada]

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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.


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[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!

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

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Mikle Kolyada <zlogene@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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!

Great news!

Welcome, Toralf. Your contributions so far are already highly
appreciated, and here's to hoping you can keep at it!

Cheers,

Dirkjan

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

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

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On 06/19/2017 01:39 PM, 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!
A warm welcome, your work on tinderboxing is much appreciated :)

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

[Sergei Trofimovich]

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On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 14:39:49 +0300
Mikle Kolyada <zlogene@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Toralf Förster is joining us from Hamburg, Germany.

Yay! Welcome \o/

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  Sergei

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

[Andrew Savchenko]

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On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 14:39:49 +0300 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!

Great! I'm really to hear this :)

Toralf, you contributions are already of a high quality and
appreciation, so keep doing your great work!

You are most warmly welcome here.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko

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

[NP-Hardass]

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On 06/19/2017 07:39 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!
> 

Welcome aboard! It's about time you joined the ranks! Glad to see it.

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NP-Hardass


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

[Daniel Campbell]

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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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Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer
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Re: [gentoo-project] New developer: Toralf Förster (toralf)

[Matthias Schwarzott]

Am 19.06.2017 um 13:39 schrieb Mikle Kolyada:
> 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!
[...]
> 
> Please give him a warm welcome!
> 

Welcome to the German conspiracy ;-)

Best regards
Matthias

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

[Maciej Mrozowski]

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On poniedziałek, 19 czerwca 2017 13:39:49 CEST Mikle Kolyada wrote:
> Good day everyone!
> 
> It is my pleasure to announce the latest addition to our family.

Congrats and welcome on board!
Our family might be pathological at times, but family nevertheless ;)

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regards
MM

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

[Bernard Cafarelli]

Le 19/06/2017 13:39, Mikle Kolyada a écrit :
> 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!

Nice to have you officially on board, welcome Toralf!

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Bernard Cafarelli (Voyageur)
Gentoo developer

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

[Toralf Förster]

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On 06/19/2017 01:39 PM, Mikle Kolyada wrote:
> Please give him a warm welcome!

Got it !

Thank you all ! Motivates me to boost the tinderbox now :-D

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

[Patrice Clement]

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Monday 19 Jun 2017 14:39:49, 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!
> ---8<---8<---8<---
> Please give him a warm welcome!

Herzlich Willkommen!

You've finally made up your mind and joined our ranks. Great!

On a side note: thumbs up for the recruiters! Very very good addition to
the Gentoo community.

-- 
Patrice Clement
Gentoo Linux developer
http://www.gentoo.org

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

[Matthew Marchese]

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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!
Welcome, sir! We look forward to you giving the gentoo ebuild repository
injections whenever it gets sick. :) See you around! -maffblaster


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