Auth-Key: nmauthd3c267b92774b23091dc5afeb8bd5099 Applicant: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> I hereby support Stephen Leake's application as Debian Developer and advocate him. Stephe has been working with me on Debian packaging for a couple of years now. He now has a few packages in testing; some that he adopted From me and some that he added on his own. I have been mentoring and sponsoring his packages for many months now. But Stephe's biggest contribution so far is invisible in the Debian package tracking system: he was a major force behind the refinement of the Debian Policy for Ada[1], which, with the Fourth Edition for Debian 6.0 "Squeeze", has set a new standard for a Policy document and within the worldwide Ada community. Indeed some other distributions are now trying to learn from Debian[2] and see Debian as a reference[3]. I think that this is not so much because of the outstanding quality of the Ada packages than because of the Policy that unites them; Stephe is to be thanked for this. [1] http://people.debian.org/~lbrenta/debian-ada-policy.html [2] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2009-November/057661.html [3] http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ada/msg/e2dcfc933fa93d4f Stephe shows great attention to detail, amazing dedication and a deep understanding of the ideas behind Free Software. I trust he will pass the various tests with flying colors. This mail is GPG-signed. -- Ludovic Brenta.
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