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This page collects statements of advocacy for Ben Westover <me@benthetechguy.net> to become a Debian Maintainer.

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For nm.debian.org, at 2022-08-03:
I support Ben Westover <kwestover.kw@gmail.com>'s request to become a Debian
Maintainer. I have worked with Ben Westover on various packages maintained by
the Python Team in the last few months and consider them as having sufficient
technical competence.

More specifically, I have sponsored "python-pypartpicker" for Ben during the
month of July 2022 and was satisfied with the technical work and general
understand of Debian packaging. I like to believe I have high technical
standards when it comes to sponsoring a Python package and had to ask for very
little changes.

I have also witnessed 3 other packages they worked on in the Python Team being
reviewed and sponsored by other members of the team, namely "python-freenom",
"python-discord" and "bumblebee-status".

Although I did not formally review these packages, I offered some advice over
IRC for various fixes and was happy to see Ben Westover incorporate them.

Finally, I have had nothing but cordial interactions with Ben over IRC and I'm
convinced they have suitable social skills for the Debian project.

I have personally worked with Ben Westover <kwestover.kw@gmail.com> (key
3869DA72A461754E9E366B45C311C5F54E89B698) for 3 months, and I know Ben Westover
can be trusted to have upload rights for their own packages, right now.

Signed with key F64D 61D3 21F3 CB48 9156 753D E1E5 457C 8BAD 4113

pollo

2022-08-03

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Hello
I support Ben's application. I sponsored a few packages in the Rust team and he is doing great work.
Thanks
S

Signed with key B60D B599 4D39 BEC4 D1A9 5CCF 7E65 28DA 752F 1BE1

sylvestre

2022-08-03

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Log

Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2022-08-03 23:00	sylvestre	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2022-08-03 23:00	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2022-08-03 22:06	pollo	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2022-08-03 22:06	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes