Re: Philip Wyett: Advocate

Phil Wyett <[email protected]> Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:57:56 +0000
Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.new-maintainer
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On Wed, 2024-12-04 at 17:37 +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna (via nm.debian.org) wrote:
> For nm.debian.org, at 2024-12-04:
> I support Philip Wyett <[email protected]>'s request to become a Debian Developer, uploading.
> I have worked with Philip Wyett on many many and many packages (RFS to sponsor!)
> for 3 years, and I consider them as having sufficient technical competence.
> 
> I don't usually advocate when I "just" sponsor less than 20 packages for a person.
> But this time, things have changed since my last advocacy
> 1) he has strong motivation in keeping filezilla/libfilezilla in a good shape in Debian.
> 2) he is fast in acting and answer to questions/emails
> 3) he knows how ABI/API works, and he does "transition" the two packages successfully since
> when he started working on them (its a 2 packages transition, but he knows his stuff!)
> 4) libfilezilla bumps ABI on each release, so being DM for him is probably painful.
> 5) he did work on other packages such as pingus, rednotebook.
> 6) I think having them as DD is a great value for Debian project.
> 7) since the last advocacy, his work on RFS bugs has been just AWESOME!
> 
> I have personally worked with Philip Wyett <[email protected]>
> (key 70A0AC45AC779EFE84F63AED724AA9B52F024C8B) for 3 years, and I know Philip Wyett
> can be trusted to be a full member of Debian, and have unsupervised, unrestricted upload rights, right now.
> Gianfranco Costamagna (via nm.debian.org)
> 
> For details and to comment, visit https://nm.debian.org/process/1347/

Evening Gianfranco,

Many thanks for advocating me. Much of my contribution has been encouraged by yourself, especially my increased
contribution to Debian Mentors, a part of Debian that is very important but struggles to get contribution due to how
busy Debian Developers are or there focus and interests are elsewhere. Hopefully we can improve this in the future a
little bit at a time.

Thank you again for your help and support, now and collaboration in the future.

Regards

Phil

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