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Advocate

This page collects statements of advocacy for Gabriel Filion <gabster@lelutin.ca> to become a Debian Maintainer.

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See here for details about advocating someone to be a Debian Maintainer. You should be familiar with their existing work within Debian and believe it to be of a sufficient standard that they can be trusted with upload rights to the packages they maintain.

Please be verbose if you can. You may want to write the advocacy in a proper text editor and paste it in the form when you are happy with it.

Note: An email with your advocacy message will be sent to the debian-newmaint public mailing list.

This requirement has been approved by Housekeeping Robot <nm@debian.org> 11 hours, 42 minutes ago.

Signed statements

Statement Uploaded by Upload date Actions
For nm.debian.org, at 2026-02-23:
I support Gabriel Filion <gabster@lelutin.ca>'s request to become a Debian
Maintainer. I have worked with Gabriel Filion from about 10 years now.

Although I may have never directly sponsored his packages, I am familiar with 
his Debian work through our frequent local community meetings, where we discuss 
(and work on) Debian packaging and other topics. He was part of the DebConf17
organizing team in Montreal. We also shared the same workplace for over a year,
during which time we worked directly with Debian+derivatives infrastructure in
a corporate environment. I learned a lot from Gabriel during that time.

Not only does Gabriel have the technical competencies to become a Debian 
Maintainer (and very soon I hope he applies to become uploading DD), he also
has the social skills. I appreciate his generosity and patience in teaching me
things he knows well, as well as his ability to learn quickly when necessary.

I have personally worked with Gabriel Filion <gabster@lelutin.ca> (key
0D47F1D03740F712AA8C630AA28C297118E9F23D) for about 10 years, and I know 
Gabriel Filion can be trusted to have upload rights for their own packages,
right now.
Signed with key 62C0 17B1 2A96 919B BB7A D45D D847 47AC E4B6 813D
tiago 2026-02-23 [view raw]

Log

Date Author Action Content Public
2026-02-23 18:52 tiago add_statement Added a new statement yes
2026-02-23 18:52 nm@debian.org req_approve New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied yes

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