Hi! * Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> [2008-09-11 19:33:44 CEST]: > > - have at least one (but preferably more) Debian Developers > > advocate you. This is usually a signed mail to debian-newmaint > > (often a reply to your declaration mail) > > Gerfried Fuchs (Rhonda) has agreed to advocate me. I hereby want to advocate Rogério for being accepted into DM status. I've been working as sponsor with him for quite a while, and it was always a charm to discuss various aspects with him. I'd like to especially mention his package hfsprogs because it shows quite some things in to what extend he gets to with trying to fix stuff: hfsprogs is published by apple and they neither have a proper repository which one can easily track for newer upstream versions nor do they have a proper bug tracking system. Though, he managed extremely well to find his way around there, and not even extracted newer sources but tested them and checked properly inter-version differences wether they make sense at all or not. He even wrote 64bit patches for them, trying to send them back to apple - which wasn't easy at all, most of the times with no responses at all. He also was quite careful with respect to different architectures and asking for porters feedback, like in this mail to the m68k list: <http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2008/06/msg00005.html> His various mails to the debian-powerpc list also shows quite clearly his helpfulness and dedication to get things fixed. They were always quite helpful indeed. He owns three different powerpc machines which allows him to test a fair bit of a range. With his help it was possible to get the powerpcLennyReleaseRecertification page into much better shape because he did some of the rewardless work of digging up some needed informations like upstream support for various things. He also is on the track to get some install manual informations in shape, which is also currently quite required for ppc, it seems. Thanks, Rhonda
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