= Full Name =

John W. Linville

= Qualifications =

I own a number of packages already, mostly related to wireless LANs. From time to time I have added stuff to the Fedora kernel package and usually managed not to cause catastrophes. I am also an upstream kernel maintainer and I believe I have demonstrated reasonably good judgment in that capacity.

= Rationale =

I have ACL access to most of the wireless packages already, but it would be helpful to have this access as a backup. For example, I recently had reason to make a minor packaging change (i.e. adding a "Requires: udev") to the zd1211-firmware package, but I didn't have ACL access to it at that moment. I have since been approved for that access, but haven't had time to get back to the minor change that could have been done immediately if I had the required access. There have been a number of similar situations in the past with both wireless packages and other packages in which I had an interest at the moment.