Ben Collins: Advocate

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For nm.debian.org, at 2024-12-31:

I support Ben Collins <[email protected]>'s request to become a Debian
Maintainer.

I worked with Ben from 2005-2009 or thereabouts at Canonical, in the early
days of Ubuntu.  I recall most of this being technical collaboration around
the interface between the installer and the kernel, although I was also his
line manager for a short while.  We then had occasional contact for a few
years after that in areas related to the powerpc port.

Although it's certainly been a while, Ben certainly had more than sufficient
technical competence a decade ago, and I see no reason he shouldn't be
trusted to reactivate his upload rights.
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Colin Watson (via nm.debian.org)

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