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For nm.debian.org, at 2016-07-13:

I support James Clarke <jrtc27@jrtc27.com>'s request to become Debian Developer, uploading.
James Clarke has shown to be a very valuable contributor to Debian as he helped fixing lots
of complicated architecture-specific bugs for various ports.

Several times, he has proven that he has a very good understanding of what's going on inside
the code compiled code and is not scared away by machine code or stack backtraces.

For example, for Debian's sparc64 port, he has ported LibreOffice (which is not a trivial task),
fixed many issues in binutils (not trivial either), fixed qemu, pvm and various other packages
that I forgot. James also said that he would be interested in becoming the second official
maintainer of Debian's sparc64 port.

I am very confident that if James Clarke becomes a Debian Developer, uploading, he will make a
very positive impact to the project and Debian will profit both from his skills and his patience
and persistence when it comes to working on even complicated problems. He has the potential to
become a far more important contributor than just being a package maintainer.

James has my full support for becoming a Debian Developer, uploading.

Thanks a lot!
Adrian

Signed with key 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

glaubitz

2016-07-13

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I support James Clarke <jrtc27@jrtc27.com>'s request to become Debian
Developer, uploading.
I have worked with James Clarke "only" for polyml and cowdancer, but
I have always been really impressed by his porting work, and his
attitude in fixing issues even when secondary or not important.

I tried to nitpick a lot for his work, and I almost always ended up in
trusting is work, because his knowledge has been demonstrated to be
superior to mine in compilers knowledge and porting architectures
(this is why I gave him DM rights for polyml).

I have personally worked with James Clarke <jrtc27@jrtc27.com>
(key 8F58342BEABE1EF4379551FBB193770C186A1C7D) for 10 months or so,
and I know James Clarke can be trusted to be a full member of Debian,
and have unsupervised, unrestricted upload rights, right now.

Little side note: I never sponsored a "new" package for him, but AFAIR
his knowledge about copyrights and licenses is good enough to avoid
much additional work for his Application Manager.

thanks for letting him in.

Signed with key 9297 8A6E 195E 4921 825F 7FF0 F34F 0974 4E9F 5DD9

locutusofborg

2016-07-14

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Log

Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2016-07-14 08:51	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2016-07-14 08:51	locutusofborg	add_statement	Added a signed statement	yes
2016-07-13 21:14	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2016-07-13 21:14	glaubitz	add_statement	Added a signed statement	yes