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> 1 year, 4 months ago.

This process has been closed by noodles on 2023-09-21: no further modifications are possible.

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I have been contributing to Debian since 1999 or there about, and have
maintained dvdauthor [1] and ogmtools [2] since then. I've opened an ITP
for packaging EIB software, but that got stuck because of a discussion
in a dependent library (eibd/linkx).

I have introduced Debian as an OS for controllers in several companies
(from 2008 on), put in place the build infrastructure (mini-buildd,
aptly/reprepro) and packaged most of the software to get the OS going
[3][4]. Part of that is giving training and documenting packaging [5].

More recently, I am maintaining backports for GStreamer that would be
better in bpo than in my own repositories [6][7][8] (OBS not that trivial
to work with).

It would also allow me to upload software that we package to Debian
instead of leaving it on salsa or OBS. Getting feedback is crucial for
learning and improving the software (e.g. [9][10]).

Over the years, I've worked with different sponsors (Christian Marillat,
Luigi Gangitano and Konstantinos Margaritis).

I have never applied, but one of my long term friends, Konstantinos,
reminded me again that I should apply.


[1]  https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=dvdauthor
[2]  https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ogmtools
[3]  https://www.barco.com/en/solutions/control-rooms
[4]  https://www.televic.com/en/televicgsp
[5]  https://www.televic.com/en/business-units/televic-group/news/image-based-upgrades-with-debian
[6]  https://salsa.debian.org/den_erpel
[7]  https://salsa.debian.org/televic-team
[8]  https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:den_erpel
[9]  https://salsa.debian.org/televic-team/amqp-cpp
[10] https://salsa.debian.org/televic-team/tcnopen

Signed with key 827C FD74 BA46 8152 A041 F3A0 7A6A 4F17 5995 A65B

erpel

2023-08-30

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Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2023-08-30 09:29	erpel	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2023-08-30 09:29	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes