Martin Felix Krafft

Martin Felix Krafft (born February 14, 1979) is a prominent Debian developer (nicknamed madduck), computer science enthusiast, and freelance security, privacy, and open-source consultant. He is the author of the book The Debian System. Martin joined Debian in 1997 and became an official developer in 2001. He has since worked on user support, public representation, security issues, quality assurance, integration tasks, as well as the maintenance o... more

Martin Felix Krafft (born February 14, 1979) is a prominent Debian developer (nicknamed madduck), computer science enthusiast, and freelance security, privacy, and open-source consultant. He is the author of the book The Debian System. Martin joined Debian in 1997 and became an official developer in 2001. He has since worked on user support, public representation, security issues, quality assurance, integration tasks, as well as the maintenance of packages, such as mdadm, hibernate, and logcheck. His current focus is on workflows and process improvement. Under the supervision of Prof. Brian Fitzgerald and Dr. Kieran Conboy, Martin researches the adoption and use of tools and technologies by Debian package maintainers. He pursues a Ph.D. degree as an external student of the University of Limerick, Ireland, partially funded by Lero — the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre. He also spear-heads the vcs-pkg project, an effort to integrate version control systems with software... less