Declaration of intent

The most important requirement for changing status in Debian is to make sure that a person actually intends to do so.

This requirement has been approved by Housekeeping Robot <nm@debian.org> 2 years ago.

This process has been closed by gwolf on 2023-10-25: no further modifications are possible.

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For nm.debian.org, at 2022-12-06:

I would like to apply to change my status in Debian to Debian Developer, uploading.

I have worked on maintaining some packages for the past six months as a Debian Maintainer and I would like to be able to upload packages to the NEW queue without a sponsor. I'd like to introduce some more packages related to the existing packages I have worked on as well as contribute to existing packages without additional barriers of not being a Debian Developer. I feel that my past experience shows that I am experienced enough to be a full member of the Debian project.

In Debian so far I have packaged useful tools including some multimedia packages, qpwgraph and fluster. I have also packaged some embedded development packages, used to write data to some targets, including rkdeveloptool and qdl.

I have taken over the maintenance of the Debian packages debos and golang-github-go-debos-fakemachine, where I am also involved in maintenance upstream.

In terms of other packages, I have contributed some additional development board support to the u-boot package and I have contributed the rusticl driver packaging to mesa.

Also I have contributed some additional board support work to the linux and initramfs-tools packages.

I have interacted with the python, go, rust and backports teams.

Overall I think my past interactions with the Debian project show that I touch the whole stack of a modern Linux system. I have been developing Linux systems, always using Debian as a base, for well over ten years now.

I started working with 64 Studio Ltd in 2010 where I helped maintain the 64 Studio multimedia distribution as well as the tooling to develop such distributions. This consisted of a project called PDK ("Platform Development Kit"). Eventually there was no need for the distribution, since our changes were pushed back into Debian making the ecosystem work for everyone.

Since 2020 I have been working with Collabora Ltd where I help to develop Debian derivatives and custom Debian images for customer's projects. All of the work I do, including new features, bug reports and packaging ends up being pushed back to Debian or the open source world where possible.

Signed with key F18B DC8B 6C25 F90A A23D 5174 634D C4F0 6870 46F8

obbardc

2022-12-06

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For nm.debian.org, at 2022-11-23:
I would like to apply to change my status in Debian to Debian Developer, uploading.
I have worked on maintaining some packges for the past six months and I would like to be able to upload packages to the NEW queue without a sponsor.

Signed with key F18B DC8B 6C25 F90A A23D 5174 634D C4F0 6870 46F8

obbardc

2022-11-23

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Log

Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2022-12-06 18:27	obbardc	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2022-12-06 18:27	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2022-11-23 20:09	obbardc	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2022-11-23 20:09	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes