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Advocate

This page collects statements of advocacy for Simon Chopin <chopin.simon@gmail.com> to become a Debian Developer, uploading.

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Warning:" upload rights have been requested, and Simon Chopin does not seem to be a DM. The general rule is that before applying as DD, you should have been a DM for about six months. You can still advocate Simon Chopin, just please take a moment to elaborate on this.

Note: An email with your advocacy message will be sent to the debian-newmaint public mailing list.

This requirement has been approved by Housekeeping Robot <nm@debian.org> 2 days ago.

Signed statements

Statement Uploaded by Upload date Actions 
For nm.debian.org, at 2025-07-18:

I support Simon Chopin <chopin.simon@gmail.com>'s request to become a Debian Developer, uploading.
I have worked with Simon Chopin on various projects, mostly in Ubuntu, such as glibc,
python-apt and used each other as general sounding boards for 4 years and I consider
them as having sufficient technical competence.

Simon and I have worked together at Canonical in the same team (Foundations) for about 4 years,
working on general distro stuff. Simon there works or worked on on glibc (2023), OpenSSL (2021-2022),
Rust tooling, and probably a lot of other stuff I forgot.

For Debian, Simon doesn't directly maintain a package but is involved in various teams and would
hence not benefit much from DM, as he were to upload a large number of different packages; hence
it makes sense for him IMO to directly apply to become a DD.

I have personally worked with Simon Chopin <chopin.simon@gmail.com>
(key 2E26BA81BAC6B82B536E2A7DF9BE70D6D8319E21) for 4 years, and I know Simon Chopin
can be trusted to be a full member of Debian, and have unsupervised, unrestricted upload rights, right now.
Signed with key AEE1 C8AA AAF0 B768 4019 C546 021B 361B 6B03 1B00 		jak 2025-07-18 [view raw] 
For nm.debian.org, at 2025-07-18:

I support Simon Chopin <chopin.simon@gmail.com>'s request to become a Debian
Developer, uploading. I am mostly familiar with Simon's work in Ubuntu, where
Simon has been working at critical packages of the distribution (e.g. glibc,
openssl), and his technical competence on packaging exceeds what is normally
requested to become a Debian Developer. He is able to work on complex cases
and aware of distro development dynamics like transitions, freezes, and
similar.

Speaking of Debian more specifically, discussions I had with Simon often
revolved around autopkgtest and resulted in bug fixes and new features in
src:autopkgtest. Most recently Simon has been proposing changes directly as
salsa MRs to autopkgtest project. Not only the contributions were of high
quality, but the review process was smooth and fruitful. More in general, Simon
is very knowledgeable about how Free Software development works in general, and
Debian in particular, including the Social Contract and DFSG, from what I can
tell from extensive discussions I had with him. He will be an excellent member
of the project.

It may seem strange that Simon is applying directly for DD, without the DM
stepping stone. In his case I think this makes sense: his interest is for wide
initiatives to improve distribution as a whole, rather than focusing on narrow
set of packages. This is an approach and a skill which is common in Debian, and
we should value it. Simon could easily get a bunch of sponsored upload to tick
the DM box, but believe there is no need for that.

I have personally worked with Simon Chopin <chopin.simon@gmail.com>
(key 2E26BA81BAC6B82B536E2A7DF9BE70D6D8319E21) for years, and I know Simon Chopin
can be trusted to be a full member of Debian, and have unsupervised, unrestricted upload rights, right now.
Signed with key 1BD8 86F2 46FD 4908 79D4 E150 5A09 B457 6DE8 080E 		paride 2025-07-18 [view raw] 
I have personally worked with Simon Chopin <chopin.simon@gmail.com> for over
three years and I know Simon can be trusted to have full, unsupervised,
unrestricted upload to the archive right now.

I have been working with Simon in the same team since I joined Canonical and we
had the most pair programming sessions (often on Apport). I value his technical
skills and trust him.
Signed with key A62D 2CFB D50B 9B5B F360 D54B 159E B5C4 EFC8 774C 		bdrung 2025-07-18 [view raw] 
I have personally worked with Simon Chopin <chopin.simon@gmail.com>
(key 2E26BA81BAC6B82B536E2A7DF9BE70D6D8319E21) for over 4 years, and I know
Simon Chopin can be trusted to be a full member of Debian, and have
unsupervised, unrestricted upload rights, right now.

I have specifically worked with him on the upstream Netplan project, where
he showed a deep understanding of systems engineering and we worked through
large transitions such as systemd, glibc or openssl updates as part of the
Ubuntu Foundations team. As well as the armfh time_t transition in Debian:
https://wiki.debian.org/ArmhfTimeTTodo
Signed with key E3DE 8698 22F9 9B6C BC35 F279 BF7D B622 B303 AC8B 		slyon 2025-07-18 [view raw] 
For nm.debian.org, at 2025-07-19:

I support Simon Chopin <chopin.simon@gmail.com>'s request to become a
Debian Developer, uploading.

I have worked with Simon Chopin at Canonical for 4 years, and
witnessed his technical prowess and ability to perform complex
packaging tasks in a small timeframe while also being concerned about
quality and correctness.

I remember the first time I met him face-to-face and learned that he
was doing the OpenSSL 3.0 transition in Ubuntu.  He had a very short
time to pull that through, and was able to lead the work and complete
the task in a timely manner.  He currently maintains glibc in Ubuntu,
and is always interested in learning more about the project and do a
better packaging job.

I have personally worked with Simon Chopin <chopin.simon@gmail.com>
(key 2E26BA81BAC6B82B536E2A7DF9BE70D6D8319E21) for 4 years, and I know
Simon Chopin can be trusted to be a full member of Debian, and have
unsupervised, unrestricted upload rights, right now.
Signed with key 237A 54B1 0287 28BF 00EF 31F4 D0EB 7628 65FC 5E36 		sergiodj 2025-07-19 [view raw]

Log

Date Author Action Content Public
2025-07-19 18:37 nm@debian.org req_approve New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied yes
2025-07-19 18:37 sergiodj add_statement Added a new statement yes
2025-07-18 14:57 slyon add_statement Added a new statement yes
2025-07-18 14:57 nm@debian.org req_approve New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied yes
2025-07-18 14:37 nm@debian.org req_approve New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied yes
2025-07-18 14:37 paride add_statement Added a new statement yes
2025-07-18 14:24 nm@debian.org req_approve New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied yes
2025-07-18 14:24 bdrung add_statement Added a new statement yes
2025-07-18 13:53 jak add_statement Added a new statement yes
2025-07-18 13:53 nm@debian.org req_approve New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied yes

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