Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 20:49:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@gshapiro.net> To: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: New guy on the block Message-ID: <14703.57189.694344.378666@horsey.gshapiro.net>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I'd like to thank the academy for ... Oops, wrong speech. I've been told it's customary to give a brief introduction after being added as a committer. I began my professional career as a systems administrator for Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) after graduating from WPI in 1992. During my tenure as Senior UNIX Systems Administrator, I became involved with beta testing the BIND name server, the sendmail mail transfer agent, and other UNIX utilities such as emacs and screen. I contributed the secure zones functionality included in BIND 4.9.X to provide per-zone security for protecting information served by BIND. My involvement with sendmail grew into assisting in supporting sendmail by joining the Sendmail Consortium in 1996 and later increased to include code maintenance and release assistance. When presented with the opportunity to join Sendmail, Inc., I packed my bags and headed west. As Principal Engineer at Sendmail, Inc., I continue to support the open source version while also working on the commercial version. During my first couple of weeks on the west coast two and a half years ago, I was fortunate enough to be taken in by Kirk and Eric. It wasn't long (ok, maybe a week) before Kirk was able to turn me into a FreeBSD zealot and advocate. After standing in the wings watching and learning about the FreeBSD development model (which is somewhat different than the sendmail model), I decided it was time to try give back some and volunteered my services at USENIX this year. David O'Brien and I spent some time discussing it and he agreed to be my mentor. My immediate goal is to import sendmail 8.10.2 into CURRENT and then STABLE. 8.11.0 is going to be released soon but I would like to see that get some more exposure before importing it here. I'll then give it some cooling off time in CURRENT. I'll also have to spend some time learning gnats as I've already been assigned a bug. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?14703.57189.694344.378666>