Ayushman Bhattacharya

I'm Ayushman Bhattacharya, a developer from Kolkata, India, who works mostly in Rust. I started using Debian and free software for development and wanted to give back by packaging the tools I write and depend on.

Debian. In October 2026 I made my first contributions with the Rust team: I packaged rust-reedline 0.52.1 through debcargo-conf (MR !1493), which is now in unstable and which I co-maintain. I then packaged crumb, a terminal agent harness I develop upstream, built entirely on Debian's librust packages. It went through ITP (#1151280), RFS (#1152019, sponsored by Simon Quigley) and NEW; 1.1.0-3 is in unstable with real autopkgtests and Salsa CI. I've since opened Rust team MRs fixing RC bugs in rust-topology-traits (#1149579, !1515) and rust-hashify (#1151470, !1516, with the fix forwarded upstream), and updating rust-wl-clipboard-rs (!1517).

Elsewhere in free software. I maintain the open-source projects of the Elixpo & Pollinations organisation on GitHub, including crumb. I'm part of GitHub's Maintainer Advisory Network currently.

Goals. I want to keep crumb and its Rust dependencies current in Debian, help the Rust team with crate updates and RC bugs, and become a Debian Maintainer for crumb and the crates I look after.