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I fully support Andrea Bolognani <eof@kiyuko.org>'s request to become a Debian
Developer, uploading.

Most of the time my interaction has been around libvirt or virtualization in
general. Guido already mentioned the well done modification and addition of
the related packages, he is right but I'll not just repeat the same. Instead
I'll focus a bit on other, more social, aspects that I also consider important
to be a great contributor.

Whenever I worked with Andrea he was aware of the wider ecosystem, and thereby
brought great expertise to consider implications of our packaging. For
example, every now and then he is aware of upstream changes that would cause an
issue - he is proactive in preparing and discussing the required changes in a
timely fashion before they become a real problem.

Andrea stays up to date and is usually aware of changes in the Debian policy
and common patterns to handle things in debian/*, thereby keeping the packaging
in a modern well maintainable state.

In our interactions he furthermore hit the right level of confidence all the
time. When something is unclear he puts the topic up for discussion, but if he
is sure you'll most likely see a PR that handles all of it fully prepared. I
like this style of confidence when appropriate, but open for discussion and
tests when in doubt - it helps copperating in a remote work world.

I furthermore applaud him for his true "care for the user and have no barrier"
attitude. From his work in Fedora to the occasional ping to me in Ubuntu, he is
the true embodyment of FOSS cooperation for the better of everyone.

I have personally worked with Andrea Bolognani <eof@kiyuko.org>
(key 99E91684515735AC059870696863EF9F8CFE190D) for several years by now.
Recently mostly via email and gitlab, but also occasionally via IRC
on upstream virtualization topics and - now ages ago ?2020? - in person at
the KVM forum conference. His technical and social behavior was always
exemplary and therefore I believe he can be trusted to be a full member
of Debian, and have full, unsupervised, unrestricted upload to the archive
right now.

Written on 4th of July for https://nm.debian.org/process/1403

Signed with key 92D6 18F6 68F2 2F8E D80B EEF5 BA3E 2933 8280 B242

paelzer

2025-07-04

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I fully support Andrea Bolognani <eof@kiyuko.org>'s request
to become a Debian Developer, uploading. I have worked with Andrea on
multiple packages in the libvirt team over the past years
including packages generating multiple binary packages and shared
libraries. He introduced new packages and updated existing ones
reworking the packaging significantly.

I have personally worked with Andrea Bolognani <eof@kiyuko.org> via
Email and gitlab many times and I believe he can be trusted to be a
full member of Debian, and have unsupervised, unrestricted upload
rights, right now.

Signed with key 0DB3 9327 62F7 8E59 2F65 22AF BB5A 2C77 5841 22D3

agx

2025-07-03

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Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2025-07-04 08:00	paelzer	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2025-07-04 08:00	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2025-07-03 18:39	agx	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2025-07-03 18:39	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes