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This page collects statements of advocacy for Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@gmail.com> to become a Debian Maintainer.

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I support Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@gmail.com>'s request to become Debian Maintainer.

I am a hug fan of his work on Byobu which I use daily -- and there is nothing better than having a motivated upstream maintain code. I am also quite appreciative of all the Ubuntu server work he has done, but less familiar with it.  Ditto for his earlyer cryptographic work.  But in sum it is clear that he has the skills required.

He is also a rather nice and friendly fellow. I first met Dustin close to ten years ago at a Canonical summit in Barcelona (which I attended for some R-related integration) as well as years later when he traveled to Chicago.  We have been following each other on social media (ie Twitter) for years too and are friendly.

It would be great to have him in Debian.

Dirk Eddelbuettel
27 May 2018

Signed with key AE89 DB0E E10E 60C0 1100 A8F2 A148 9FE2 AB99 A21A

edd

2018-05-27

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I support Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@gmail.com>'s request to become
Debian Maintainer.

I have known Dustin for a long while now, starting when we were both
at Canonical working on Ubuntu. I've always found him to be extremely
friendly and smart. He's always trying to solve problems that other
people shy away from, and he's conscientious with his development and
packaging work.

He'd make a welcome addition to Debian!

Kees Cook
2018-05-31

Signed with key A5C3 F68F 229D D60F 723E 6E13 8972 F4DF DC6D C026

kees

2018-05-31

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Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2018-05-31 23:10	kees	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2018-05-31 23:10	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2018-05-27 19:48	edd	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2018-05-27 19:48	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes