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Hi,

Alex Muntada (alexm@alexm.org) is an active team member for about
three years now and a DM for nearly two years. When he joined the
Debian Perl Team, he quickly became a well-known and valued
contributor inside the team and an active regular on #debian-perl in
IRC.

He organised two Debian Perl Team Sprints and helped to organise a
third one.

He is Uploader of eight team-maintained packages, and already
contributed to the group's git policy and autopkgtest documentation as
well as to discussions on the debian-perl mailing list.

One of these packages is the rather hairy libdbd-oracle-perl which is
in contrib because it relies on non-free software not packaged in
Debian. Hence the package is not autobuildable and difficult to
maintain. But he managed to resurrect that package and bring it back
into Testing although the rest of the team more or less had given up.

I haven't sponsored an upload for Alex yet, but given his trace of
records mentioned above and meeting him in real-life at multiple
Debian Perl Team Sprints, I'm convinced that he can be trusted and has
the technical skills needed to maintain Debian Perl packages on his
own.

I hence support Alex Muntada's application on nm.debian.org to become
an uploading Debian Developer, i.e. having unsupervised, unrestricted
upload rights.

            Axel Beckert — Sat Apr 15 16:39:58 CEST 2017
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Signed with key 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5

abe

2017-04-15

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I advocate Alex Muntada <alexm@alexm.org> (key 6940702AC6DEB565B648A4EDE3AE978E834E5E7E)
to become Debian Developer, uploading.

In 2015, I supported his DM application:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2015/06/msg00026.html
and what I wrote there still stands.

Since then, Alex has continued his activity in the Debian Perl Group,
contributing amongst other things in the following ways:
- - maintaining libdbd-oracle-perl
- - co-maintaining a couple of other packages
- - improving our group's documentation
- - fixing bugs and adding great features to our tools
  (pkg-perl-tools and dh-make-perl)
- - (co)organizing team sprints
- - helping to fix bugs or answer questions via email or IRC

I have worked closely with Alex on all of the above tasks, and I know that
he values the Debian spirit and has the technical and social skills to
become a full project member.  Hence I recommend to accept Alex Muntada as a
Debian Developer (uploading).


Cheers,
gregor

[written for nm.debian.org on 2017-04-15]

Signed with key D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06

gregoa

2017-04-15

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Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2017-04-15 20:07	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2017-04-15 20:07	gregoa	add_statement	Added a signed statement	yes
2017-04-15 14:44	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2017-04-15 14:44	abe	add_statement	Added a signed statement	yes