Hi everyone,
A belated (re-)welcome to Antoine Musso (a.k.a. "hashar" on IRC) as a contractor working on continuous integration (e.g. beefing up our unit tests, improving our Jenkins configuration, figuring out how to integrate TestSwarm, etc). Antoine has been working in our community for quite some time, going by the name "Ashar Voultoiz" on mailing lists, and by "hashar" on IRC. Now that he's working as a contractor for WMF, he's decided to let everyone know the Superman behind the Clark Kent alter ego :)
You've probably already seen him be even more active (if that were possible) in SVN and elsewhere since Monday, which is when he officially started.
Welcome, Antoine!
Rob
Rob Lanphier wrote:
He has been working in our community for quite some time, going by the name "Ashar Voultoiz" on mailing lists, and by "hashar" on IRC. Now that he's working as a contractor for WMF, he's decided to let everyone know the Superman behind the Clark Kent alter ego :)
That was my first concern, "wasn't that supposed to be secretly kept??"
Congratulations, Hashar
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Rob Lanphier wrote:
He has been working in our community for quite some time, going by the name "Ashar Voultoiz" on mailing lists, and by "hashar" on IRC. Now that he's working as a contractor for WMF, he's decided to let everyone know the Superman behind the Clark Kent alter ego :)
That was my first concern, "wasn't that supposed to be secretly kept??"
Nobody recognizes him when he takes those glasses off ;)
-- brion
On 22/10/11 00:24, Platonides wrote: <snip>
That was my first concern, "wasn't that supposed to be secretly kept??"
I did confirm to Rob it was fine to reveal my identity. It already leaked everywhere on the internet anyway :-)
Moreover, people tended to confuse me with Asher Feldman since Asher and Hashar sounds a like.
I've always been delighted to work with Ashar, and I am sure I will find it equally awesome to work with Antoine. :-)
Here's to our glorious continuous-integration future, with better tools and greater confidence for developers new and old! I look forward to a day of improved test coverage, robust automated testing, diverse clever manual testers, and well-maintained test environments. It's great that Antoine can now concentrate fulltime on bringing that utopia into reality. Cheers.
Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation
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