-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 For nm.debian.org, at 2025-07-18: I support Simon Chopin '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 (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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- wsC7BAEBCgBvBYJoelwFCRDWWGGIPgFNuUcUAAAAAAAeACBzYWx0QG5vdGF0aW9u cy5zZXF1b2lhLXBncC5vcmewLtHHfrw/sCwVEJ8IVi/PT1hvyBsfTP0LD02Ol3po 4xYhBFYa1YXu12aSG6jdltZYYYg+AU25AACQIAf/Zz3Lcdl+wa6okU/Oot7PABm7 0SuhFPKITti7UgEHMF4MdLTZPMTNCWk8U0V2AiUtGS0WyoPAW1+NBzFhvur3Phcn 6Gy/zKbg9B2cfoPx9h1ZjrcS7YhwGqLiS/cnzTc4RL+cz+U93AORk/nASXa1PC7C AF9tvPN8Yne7BfpukRVwAEuNyN3B+g2UnLQqZ6URPyJ7T9UJczXLfE2bp+bGC+eR EWWnttxlUKBn7wJ3FWZXjLrxiOlqbogz6b0blsalqQqEW5eCLaNOXha++J3srJLq KQHkr+m+F+n1HGfjo9WVJjOjy5Y2/mNW3IAZdJKMSTfgFj4hMeuRTGgs2AYuQg== =7vQQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----