Stefano Zacchiroli
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Stefano Zacchiroli is the current Debian Project Leader, succeeding Steve McIntyre
in April 2010. Zacchiroli became a Debian Developer in 2001. After attending LinuxTag
in 2004, he became more involved in the Debian community and the project itself.
Zacchiroli earned a PhD in computer science in 2007 at University of Bologna
and moved to Paris Diderot University for his Postdoctoral research. He is involved into the MANCOOSI
project working on the application of formal methods to the solution of complexity issues in the management of GNU/Linux distributions.
From the technical point of view, Zacchiroli has been involved in Debian mainly in the Objective Caml
packaging and in the quality assurance
team.
In April 2011 he was re-selected as project leader unopposed.
Steve McIntyre
Steve McIntyre is a software engineer and a long-time Debian developer. His best known contributions have been in the field of creating Debian CD/DVD images; he is the debian-cd team leader and is responsible for generating the official images.McIntyre ran for the post of Debian Project Leader in...
in April 2010. Zacchiroli became a Debian Developer in 2001. After attending LinuxTag
LinuxTag
LinuxTag is a Free Software expo with an emphasis on Linux , held every summer in Germany. It is relatively large, claiming that it is the largest expo of this kind in Europe, drawing visitors from many countries....
in 2004, he became more involved in the Debian community and the project itself.
Zacchiroli earned a PhD in computer science in 2007 at University of Bologna
University of Bologna
The Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna is the oldest continually operating university in the world, the word 'universitas' being first used by this institution at its foundation. The true date of its founding is uncertain, but believed by most accounts to have been 1088...
and moved to Paris Diderot University for his Postdoctoral research. He is involved into the MANCOOSI
MANCOOSI
The consortium MANCOOSI is a project financed by European Union that it has as primary goal, creating a solid and flexible structure for handling packages, controller and library in operating systems based on Unix and standardizing the packages dominated by Advanced Packaging Tool for DEB and...
project working on the application of formal methods to the solution of complexity issues in the management of GNU/Linux distributions.
From the technical point of view, Zacchiroli has been involved in Debian mainly in the Objective Caml
Objective Caml
OCaml , originally known as Objective Caml, is the main implementation of the Caml programming language, created by Xavier Leroy, Jérôme Vouillon, Damien Doligez, Didier Rémy and others in 1996...
packaging and in the quality assurance
Quality Assurance
Quality assurance, or QA for short, is the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service or facility to maximize the probability that minimum standards of quality are being attained by the production process...
team.
In April 2011 he was re-selected as project leader unopposed.