I recommend to accept Mazen NEIFER as a Debian Developer. 1. Identification & Account Data -------------------------------- First name: Mazen Middle name: - Last name: NEIFER Key fingerprint: E1870B62BFAB87447FEDE31A8F7274F307062A38 Account: mazen 2. Background ------------- Mazen writes about himself: | My name is Mazen Neifer. I'm GNU/Linux user for 10 years. I started | using Debian distribution because it is really free software. As no | money consideration is taken in building the system, it could ensures | that its releases are really stable and could go in production machines. | Timing deadline and marketing considerations could not compromise the | release quality. | | I'm also a Free Pascal user and developer for 12 years. Currently I'm | maintaining Debian packages for FPC[1] and Lazarus[2], helping Carlos | Laviola, Torsten Werner and other maintainers to keep up to date FPC and | Lazarus on Debian repository. | | Giving a great importance to free software, I preferred to have non FPC | in Lenny rather than publishing a tainted code and thus requested to | remove FPC from Lenny due to copyright infringement[3] only few weeks | before it is released. | | I also reported many bugs on other packages, helped debugging and | investigating the issues and even proposed patches to fix the issues. | | [1] http://www.freepascal.org | [2] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org | [3] http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-release@lists.debian.org/msg27208.html Mazen is mainly active with Pascal packages in Debian. During his NM process he showed that he's also knowledgeable of other areas, even if his personal preference of how to spend his spare time is clearly in the Free Pascal domain. His NM process started back in 2009 and Mazen has been committed to the project during all that time, even though real life of his AMs got in the way of completing the process earlier. Kind regards Philipp Kern
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