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This requirement has been approved by Housekeeping Robot <nm@debian.org> 1 year, 3 months ago.

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For nm.debian.org, at 2024-02-26:
I support Thomas Ward <teward@ubuntu.com>'s request to become a Debian Developer, uploading.

I work with Thomas Ward regularly on the Lubuntu project, but also admire his work on the nginx package(set), and other work within the Server realm.

Thomas has been a colleague of mine since I started in the open source world, 8 years ago. We have been through countless, incredibly trying times together and I had zero hesitation in saying "yes" to Thomas' request for my advocation. His resilience, perspicacity, and tireless efforts prove to me, on a daily basis, that he is ready for a role such as this.

In recent times, I have worked with Thomas in his roles as Lubuntu Team Lead and a member of the Ubuntu Community Council, although I am aware of his role on the Ubuntu Server Team. It is important to us, as the Lubuntu project, to contribute as much as we reasonably can back to Debian. Thomas is exemplary of this effort, and it is a privilege to work with him.

I have personally worked with Thomas Ward <teward@ubuntu.com> (key 5792F66164D057EFC6D06FAF5B8AD6F4C26ADDDD) for 8 years, and I know Thomas Ward can be trusted to be a full member of Debian, and have unsupervised, unrestricted upload rights, right now. My condolences to the AM who takes this application on... in all seriousness, granting these rights to Thomas will, in my sincere opinion, greatly benefit the Debian project.

Signed with key 5C7A BEA2 0F86 3045 9CC8 C8B5 E27F 2CF8 458C 2FA4

tsimonq2

2024-02-26

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Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2024-02-26 19:19	tsimonq2	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2024-02-26 19:19	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes