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This process has been approved by tiago on 2025-07-09: no further modifications are possible.

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For nm.debian.org, at 2025-06-29:
I support Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl>'s request to become a Debian Developer, non-uploading.

I have worked with Roland Clobus on openqa.debian.net and related packages since
2021 and I consider him thoroughly competent and trustworthy, as evidenced by
the fact that I have granted him root access on the system that hosts
openqa.debian.net.

He has made significant contributions to the testing of Debian Installer and
Debian Live Images, and is AFAIK solely responsible for revivng the Debian Live
images that we now have available, and also for ensuring that those images are
now reproducible (which was a far from trivial undertaking).

You can see evidence of his contributions all over https://openqa.debian.net
where anything that includes "Live" in the title is down to him, and at least
half of the comments about failing tests are his as well.

He is also responsible for what can be seen here: https://jenkins.debian.net/view/live/

In both cases, the fact that those tests are generally green is evidence of his
persistence at both setting up the tests, and fixing the problems they discover.

These openqa-prompted bug reports were mostly reported by Roland:

https://udd.debian.org/bugs/?release=na&merged=ign&fnewerval=7&flastmodval=7&fusertag=only&fusertagtag=openqa&fusertaguser=debian-qa%40lists.debian.org&allbugs=1&sortby=id&sorto=desc&format=html#results

BTW I would also be perfectly happy to endorse him as an uploading DD whenever
he feels the need to have the right to do that.

In conclusion:

I have personally worked with Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl>
(key 50554B33905D8FB1922446FE62C57C6AA61495BD) for 4 years,
and am sure that he can be trusted to be a full member of Debian, right now.

Signed with key DFF1 415A CE32 27FC F207 07D6 D04B A3A0 0125 D5C0

philh

2025-07-01

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For nm.debian.org, at 2025-06-30:
I support Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl>'s request to become a Debian Developer, non-uploading.
I have worked with Roland Clobus on live-build, live-boot, live-config and other related packages
for ~5 years and I consider them as having sufficient technical competence.

Roland has worked extensively on live images for many years now, vastly improving
the status quo, adding support for new features, fixing bugs, improving QA and
reproducibility among other things. As one of the maintainers of the live-*
packages I have worked extensively with them for all this time.

I have personally worked with Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl>
(key 50554B33905D8FB1922446FE62C57C6AA61495BD) for ~5 years, and I know Roland Clobus
can be trusted to be a full member of Debian, right now.

Signed with key A9EA 9081 724F FAE0 484C 35A1 A81C EA22 BC8C 7E2E

bluca

2025-06-30

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Log

Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2025-07-01 08:11	philh	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2025-07-01 08:11	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2025-06-30 12:09	bluca	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2025-06-30 12:09	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes