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This requirement has been approved by Housekeeping Robot <nm@debian.org> 1 month, 2 weeks ago.

This process has been closed by johns on 2025-09-08: no further modifications are possible.

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For nm.debian.org, at 2025-08-03:

I support Sérgio de Almeida Cipriano Júnior <cipriano@debian.org>'s
request to become a Debian Developer, uploading.

To avoid confusion, I will refer to him as Cipriano :-).

Cipriano and I met about 5 years ago online, during the pandemics,
when I started getting more involved with Debian Brasília.  He has
always showed interest in learning more about Debian, Free Software,
packaging and technical stuff in general.

His involvement in the Debian Brasil development group has been an
integral part of our success.  He helped bridge the gap between our
group and University of Brasília's students by acting as the person
responsible for talking to them (and their professor), managing
expectations and helping with the mentorship.

On the technical side, Cipriano has been working on and maintaining
packages as a Debian Maintainer for a while now.  I have been
following his uploads since he started contributing and I am satisfied
with the quality of his work.  I sponsored some packages for him and I
know he has the technical competence to become a DD, uploading.

I have personally worked with Sérgio de Almeida Cipriano Júnior
<cipriano@debian.org> (key 4573E9D2AD27DB896BBF2F9EF15DCE5316051F27)
for 5 years, and I know Sérgio de Almeida Cipriano Júnior 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

2025-08-03

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For nm.debian.org, at 2025-08-04:

I support Sérgio de Almeida Cipriano Júnior <cipriano@debian.org>'s request to
become a Debian Developer, uploading.

I have worked with Sérgio de Almeida Cipriano Júnior on packaging and community
building for 6 years and I consider them as having sufficient technical
competence.

Sérgio was the second person from my former university that I managed to
convince to actually contribute to the Debian project. He has always been
interested on learning and spreading the free software values among the
students. He is definitely one of the key people that led us to the current
state of our local group, which IMO is a success.

Technically, Sérgio has demonstrated that he is a clever engineer, always
trying to understand what is happening under the hood. All my reviews from his
work were easy, I have not spotted any major problem. The important part for me
is that I know that he will always ask whenever he is in doubt.

I have personally worked with Sérgio de Almeida Cipriano Júnior
<cipriano@debian.org> (key 4573E9D2AD27DB896BBF2F9EF15DCE5316051F27) for 6
years, and I know Sérgio de Almeida Cipriano Júnior can be trusted to be a full
member of Debian, and have unsupervised, unrestricted upload rights, right now.

Signed with key 8ED6 C3F8 BAC9 DB7F C130 A870 F823 A272 9883 C97C

kanashiro

2025-08-04

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For nm.debian.org, at 2025-08-03:
I support Sérgio de Almeida Cipriano Júnior <cipriano@debian.org>'s request to
become a Debian Developer, uploading.
I have worked with Sérgio de Almeida Cipriano Júnior on multiples debian
events for more than 2 years and I consider them as having sufficient technical
competence.

I follow his contributions to project and have nothing to complain. 

During Debian Brazil meetings, he is helpful and understanding of the project's
rules and has sufficient technical skills to become a DD-Upload.

I have personally worked with Sérgio de Almeida Cipriano Júnior <cipriano@debian.org>
(key 4573E9D2AD27DB896BBF2F9EF15DCE5316051F27) for [T time], and I know Sérgio de Almeida Cipriano Júnior
can be trusted to be a full member of Debian, and have unsupervised, unrestricted upload rights, right now.

Signed with key 31D8 0509 460E FB31 DF4B 9629 FB0E 132D DB0A A5B1

lenharo

2025-08-03

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Log

Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2025-08-04 20:11	kanashiro	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2025-08-04 20:11	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2025-08-03 18:15	lenharo	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2025-08-03 18:15	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2025-08-03 17:11	sergiodj	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2025-08-03 17:11	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes