Joining the team

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Simon Chopin <chopin.simon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> as it seems I've found a suitable home for my libchromaprint package in
> the Debian Multimedia team, I guess it's only fair to introduce myself
> and the package.
>
> I'm a French CS student at the University of Rennes 1, and have been a
> Debian user since the release of Lenny. I became a contributor about a
> year ago by helping at packaging beets and its various dependencies,
> mostly Python modules. I'm also maintaining a couple other Python
> applications.
>
> Libchromaprint is a library used by the Acoustid project to do audio
> fingerprinting. It uses libav for the audio decoding, and is written in
> C++ internally, albeit exposing a C interface. It is also, transitively,
> a dependency of beets.
>
> As you might have guessed, I'm not very familiar with this sort of
> packages, and have so far relied on debian-mentors to help me package
> and find a sponsor. I'm willing to learn and to lend a hand on other
> packages if my skills allow it as part of team work.

I have added Simon to the alioth team, and I have offered my
assistance with maintaining chromaprint.

Again, welcome to the team, Simon!


-- 
regards,
    Reinhard