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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.)
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