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This page collects statements of advocacy for Ben Collins <bcollins@libjwt.io> to become a Debian Maintainer.

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For nm.debian.org, at 2024-12-31:

I support Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>'s request to become a Debian
Maintainer.

I worked with Ben from 2005-2009 or thereabouts at Canonical, in the early
days of Ubuntu.  I recall most of this being technical collaboration around
the interface between the installer and the kernel, although I was also his
line manager for a short while.  We then had occasional contact for a few
years after that in areas related to the powerpc port.

Although it's certainly been a while, Ben certainly had more than sufficient
technical competence a decade ago, and I see no reason he shouldn't be
trusted to reactivate his upload rights.

Signed with key AC0A 4FF1 2611 B6FC CF01 C111 3935 87D9 7D86 500B

cjwatson

2024-12-31

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Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2024-12-31 13:55	cjwatson	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2024-12-31 13:55	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes