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For nm.debian.org, at 2025-11-30:

I support Ben Collins <bcollins@libjwt.io>'s request to become a Debian
Developer, uploading.

I worked with Ben from 2005-2009 or thereabouts at Canonical, in the early
days of Ubuntu.  I recall most of this being technical collaboration around
the interface between the installer and the kernel, although I was also his
line manager for a short while.  We then had occasional contact for a few
years after that in areas related to the powerpc port.

Although it's certainly been a while, Ben certainly had more than sufficient
technical competence a decade ago, and I see no reason he shouldn't be
trusted with unsupervised, unrestricted upload rights again.

(This is more or less a copy of a similar statement I wrote advocating Ben
for DM access, but it seems to me that all the same things apply here too.)

Signed with key AC0A 4FF1 2611 B6FC CF01 C111 3935 87D9 7D86 500B

cjwatson

2025-11-30

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I have personally worked with Ben Collins <bcollins@libjwt.io>
(key 3EC975981672961A1139173A5D5A57C7242B22CF) from 2005 to 2009, while we
were all doing a lot of Debian and Ubuntu development. I have not sponsored
packages for him (and I would be very happy to do that if it's required for
reactivating his account). But I echo Colin's statement: I trust him to be
careful and sensible, and have unsupervised, unrestricted upload rights again.

Signed with key 3DB4 6B55 EFA5 9D40 E623 2148 D14E F15D AFE1 1347

mpitt

2025-12-05

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Log

Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2025-12-05 11:09	mpitt	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2025-12-05 11:09	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2025-11-30 15:01	cjwatson	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2025-11-30 15:01	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes