Martin Michlmayr

Dr. Martin Michlmayr is a Debian developer working on quality management.

Michlmayr became a member of the Debian project in 2000 and soon began work as an Application Manager for membership (New Maintainer) applications. He subsequently worked as a member of the Front Desk which coordinates the New Maintainer process. He also became involved in identifying inactive maintainers whose packages should be reassigned; created overviews of bugs in Debian; and coordinated keysigning to improve Debian's web of trust.^[1]

In March 2003 he was elected as the Debian Project Leader,^[2] and a year later he was reelected to that position.^[3] He was succeeded by Branden Robinson in April 2005.

He continues to work on quality management in Debian, and has also been working on the ARM and MIPS ports.

Michlmayr obtained a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in 2007, after working on quality management and release management in free software.

References

1. ^ Platform for Martin Michlmayr, 2003
2. ^ "Interview: Debian Project Leader Martin Michlmayr" - Linux Online
3. ^ "Interview with the Debian Project Leader Martin Michlmayr" - Pro Linux

External links

• Michlmayr's personal homepage
• A conversation with Martin Michlmayr
• "Who's The Fastest Growing Linux Distro?" - Internet News
• "Building the Whole Debian Archive with GCC 4.1" - OS News
• "Debian Lenny installer arrives" - Desktop Linux
• "The Linux Foundation's FOSSBazaar Nearly Doubles Its Membership" - Marketwire

Preceded by Bdale Garbee

Debian Project Leader March 2003 – March 2005

Succeeded by Branden Robinson

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