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For nm.debian.org, at 2025-02-05:
I, Cordell Bloor, am applying to become a Debian Developer with uploading rights. I have been a Debian Maintainer for a little under two years and have helped to package and maintain many libraries within the AMD GPU compute stack. As part of the Debian ROCm Team, I prepared sixteen new source packages that have been accepted into Debian, including rocfft, rocblas, rocsolver, rocsparse, rocthrust, hipify, and roctracer. I also helped in the maintenance and enhancement of existing packages. In particular, I did much of the work for the upgrade from ROCm 5.2 to ROCm 5.7 in early 2024.

I currently have upload rights for most of the ROCm packages in Debian, and while the role of Debian Maintainer gives me significant power to help maintain packages, the need for sponsorship when uploading new binary packages is burdensome. Further, the documentation for package sponsorship states that only Debian Developers may sponsor uploads, which has limited my ability to help mentor Sponsored Maintainers. These are the two main reasons why I wish to become a full Debian Developer with upload privileges.

However, there is a third reason why I wish to become a Debian Developer. There are important aspects of Debian that are decided through voting. In particular, there is likely to be a general resolution on Open Source AI in Debian. As an individual with a strong interest in free and open source software, I would like to become a full member so I may vote on these resolutions.
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