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This requirement has been approved by Housekeeping Robot <nm@debian.org> 7 years, 10 months ago.

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I'm very happy to advocate Punit. I work with him (as in 'same
physical office') for several years, and he's a very competent
and diligent fellow. Exactly the sort of person we want as a
debian developer. We are currently co-maintainers of global, and
that how he got into becoming a DD. It was badly maintained and
stuck at an 8-year old version, so he stepped up to help move it
forward. This proved to be much harder than it ought to be due to
a previous maintainer that would neither let go, nor do the work
himself. I helped him work through that over the 2 years or so it took,
eventually via the Technical Comittee. So he's had a baptism of
fire into the ways of Debian, but did an exemplarly job of
remaining polite and helpful throughout, and is now doing a very
good job of maintainership, with old bugs fixed/triaged, new
releases promptly packaged, and relations with upstream much
improved after a decade of tension with the previous maintainer.

I can confirm that he understands the important stuff about Free
Software, is a good engineer, is conscientious, and knows enough
about how Debian machinery and tools work to be a DD. He also has
good advice imediately to hand (me and Steve McIntyre) and is
smart enough to know when to ask before doing.

Signed with key 4789 EF23 C3DE FF05 5687 9CAA FB86 3251 A86F 9E47

wookey

2017-01-30

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Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2017-01-30 18:09	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2017-01-30 18:09	wookey	add_statement	Added a signed statement	yes