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This requirement has been approved by Housekeeping Robot <nm@debian.org> 1 year, 9 months ago.

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For nm.debian.org, at 2023-07-24:
I support Philip Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org>'s request to become a Debian Developer, uploading.
I have worked with Philip Wyett on X and Y
for 2 years, and I consider them as having sufficient technical competence.

I don't usually advocate when I "just" sponsor less than 20 packages for a person.
I decided to gran him an exception, because:
1) he has strong motivation in keeping filezilla/libfilezilla in a good shape in Debian.
2) he is fast in acting and answer to questions/emails
3) he knows how ABI/API works, and he does "transition" the two packages successfully since
when he started working on them (its a 2 packages transition, but he knows his stuff!)
4) libfilezilla bumps ABI on each release, so being DM for him is probably painful.
5) he did work on other packages such as pingus, rednotebook.
6) I think having them as DD is a great value for Debian project.

I have personally worked with Philip Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org>
(key 70A0AC45AC779EFE84F63AED724AA9B52F024C8B) for 2 years, and I know Philip Wyett
can be trusted to be a full member of Debian, and have unsupervised, unrestricted upload rights, right now.

Signed with key 9297 8A6E 195E 4921 825F 7FF0 F34F 0974 4E9F 5DD9

locutusofborg

2023-07-24

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For nm.debian.org, at 2023-07-24:
I support Philip Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org>'s request to become a Debian Developer (with upload rights).
I have worked with Philip Wyett on filezilla, libfilezilla, and rednotebook
for 1.5 years and I consider him as having sufficient technical competence.

My reasoning is the same as locutusofborg's:
Phil is very responsive and that makes working with him a charm.
He has done important work with filezilla and usually, there were no mistakes that had to be fixed to begin with.

I have personally worked with Philip Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org>
(key 70A0AC45AC779EFE84F63AED724AA9B52F024C8B) for 1.5 years, and I know Philip Wyett
can be trusted to be a full member of Debian, and have unsupervised, unrestricted upload rights, right now.

Signed with key 2861 2573 17C7 AEE4 F880 497E C386 0AC5 9F57 4E3A

bage

2023-07-24

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Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2023-07-24 13:54	bage	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2023-07-24 13:54	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2023-07-24 06:34	locutusofborg	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2023-07-24 06:34	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes