-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 For nm.debian.org, at 2020-10-16: I've been appointed as Helge Deller's AM last November about a year ago. Helge is a Linux kernel developer since 1999, in particular, PA-RISC (hppa) Linux kernel and Debian-ports arch maintainer. His knowledge and expertise of architectures, of the kernel and about Development is far beyond my own and I was quite impressed about his contributions to Debian with palo. That being said, I was at first a bit apprehensive about his application. Undoubtedly, Helge understands the Debian Philosophy and the way the project works, but only maintains one package, and has a dozen uploads, which seems a bit low for becoming an uploading Debian Developer. Nevertheless, there was no reason I should not go with him throught this process, as I don't think hard requirements for packaging is the sane way to go. Helge is around since at least 2013, and his expertise would still benefit Debian. So I decided to handle his application with an extra excercise for him to do: a NMU or QA Upload, just to make sure that he was aware of the implications on working on packages he does not maintain, and more specifically, on something else than palo. Helge decided to take care of multiple issues with the rbootd package, which got orphaned a year ago, and to adopt it, which seemed appropriate, as it's in his field of work with parisc and still close to a QA Upload (the only difference being that it's not one because he adopts it). We also took some time to make tweaks on palo. The whole process took quite some time. Between Helge's busy schedule, some failures on my side (sorry again for that), and the COVID19 situation, many delays in mail exchanges were met. But it's not really something that bothers me in an application, and it helped me to see that Helge is not in a rush about becoming a Debian Developer, and, generally quite patient and thorough, which are great qualities when working in Debian. It also gave me some time to interact with him on his work to have rbootd maintained again. As I already said to him in private, I'd be glad to mentor him a bit more through packaging questions should he feel the need, as his experience is mostly with old-style packages (not using debhelper or other tools), but having gone through the AM process with him, I agree that Helge Deller can and should indeed be a Debian Developer, uploading. I think he'll be a great added value to Debian! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEESYqTBWsFJgT6y8ijKb+g0HkpCsoFAl+JssgACgkQKb+g0Hkp CsoEjQ//ULK4UvnLoOfLNPtBdEq0/xLU27Wqs69iWQ91Qq3UAb6Zo2YYF+Cfj+PG J96GXewfiJV2UxOBP/OhhZtXLGGu0O4JvfMMqyXn/sxBEvD/9wqrPa35FcgjjGXW bdZqL9yzxCOA0KRn9d0irqp1uDZxC5/EeVcIwdwEdMl7kRANA7GMy5wA5Y2pZFK/ IqJ/POz/WHkgvV2SwyXXfu1RpxgiPHGJ4MTCpL6BVD+V47ogWsvETBPR2f1DjLi2 IkblebbzYz9qhQ7ET686nXxZrHar6yRXk2qw5xV2YWwJ+Yy0w6lxppv+GxpQwAJc N0fCn+Onp2He7ORiL+PS6fsp+E5rL3qTOipRxFFmyXhG7QMi1oPwKFgCAIEBfrJU vPgWrYoph6y/qDe8RlIKuzaEXrUtBsJlkp7SNCFbkAuw3ZtBRUkaKdCMqnW1MIGP Kjadn9rbNSvjDT04nqVzCUGdbsslXcntjJFhcfFhRlZKchZkDC63P7nyTGAe4HYj o8FYQKy1NmxxYQ/cl1KzC7ikbYr3STlfyiebMAsLFyqTzggGt042B8Dy+t/gJjqg Xw7IHaFovyZ/VmXrdfiimcxJtO2crF7/xa4bMekVXc1kkhlu1xCpVLk0B5/JfMPl 8RyXY2h/3LmD20W/yCQKnPVFppm5IBLXxdj4ZtjfaJtoTDFIAaY= =peft -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----