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For nm.debian.org, at 2023-07-03:
I support Blair Noctis <n@sail.ng>'s request to become a Debian Maintainer.
I have worked with Blair Noctis on Rust packaging for more than a year
and I consider them as having sufficient technical competence.

I have personally worked with Blair Noctis <n@sail.ng>
(key 59D84D44CCD0E82647AEDA29C21D9AD423A39727) for [T time], and I know Blair Noctis
can be trusted to have upload rights for their own packages, right now.

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

sylvestre

2023-07-03

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- From Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>

For nm.debian.org, at 2023-07-05:
I support Blair Noctis <n@sail.ng>'s request to become a Debian Maintainer.

I have worked with Blair Noctis on numerous rust crates and general rust
packaging and ecosystem for past few months.  He has good expertise and
understanding in how rust packaging works and how it integrates into
the rest of debian packaging, and gave me a few lessons about packaging
situations which I weren't able to think myself even after 15+ years of
being a DD.  Rust ecosystem is new still, and involves various interesting
combinations of versions of packaged rust crates when one dependency is
updated, causing a chain effect on other crates, and it's sometimes not
obvious how to handle it in a way to avoid massive breakage.  He's one
of the few people who actively works with the rust ecosystem in debian
and knows how to do this, helping others in the process.

It would definitely help if he will have upload rights at least for the
(rust) packages he packaged for debian.  I think he has excellent technical
competence in this matter.

I haven't worked with Blair personally, but I did verify that the person
who applies for DM here #1135, the person who worked with me and with
others on IRC where we (virtually) met, and the person who does the rust
packaging work, all own this gpg key:

  Blair Noctis <n@sail.ng>
  key    59D84D44CCD0E82647AEDA29C21D9AD423A39727
  subkey B8F221192007C37D9BA614FC2C89AF5FFD1C767C

Thanks,

/mjt

Signed with key 6EE1 95D1 886E 8FFB 810D 4324 457C E0A0 8044 65C5

mjt

2023-07-05

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Log

Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2023-07-05 18:10	mjt	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2023-07-05 18:10	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2023-07-03 13:53	sylvestre	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2023-07-03 13:53	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2022-11-24 19:48	olasd	-	Requirement unapproved; the advocacy needs to be sent through a signed statement ("Click here to advocate"), not via a log entry!	yes
2022-11-24 19:44	olasd	req_unapprove	Requirement unapproved	yes
2022-11-17 12:45	sylvestre	req_approve	Blair did great with the Rust packages they have been maintaining. They should be DM	yes