Simon Chopin: Advocate
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For nm.debian.org, at 2025-07-18:
I support Simon Chopin <chopin.simon@gmail.com>'s request to become a Debian
Developer, uploading. I am mostly familiar with Simon's work in Ubuntu, where
Simon has been working at critical packages of the distribution (e.g. glibc,
openssl), and his technical competence on packaging exceeds what is normally
requested to become a Debian Developer. He is able to work on complex cases
and aware of distro development dynamics like transitions, freezes, and
similar.
Speaking of Debian more specifically, discussions I had with Simon often
revolved around autopkgtest and resulted in bug fixes and new features in
src:autopkgtest. Most recently Simon has been proposing changes directly as
salsa MRs to autopkgtest project. Not only the contributions were of high
quality, but the review process was smooth and fruitful. More in general, Simon
is very knowledgeable about how Free Software development works in general, and
Debian in particular, including the Social Contract and DFSG, from what I can
tell from extensive discussions I had with him. He will be an excellent member
of the project.
It may seem strange that Simon is applying directly for DD, without the DM
stepping stone. In his case I think this makes sense: his interest is for wide
initiatives to improve distribution as a whole, rather than focusing on narrow
set of packages. This is an approach and a skill which is common in Debian, and
we should value it. Simon could easily get a bunch of sponsored upload to tick
the DM box, but believe there is no need for that.
I have personally worked with Simon Chopin <chopin.simon@gmail.com>
(key 2E26BA81BAC6B82B536E2A7DF9BE70D6D8319E21) for years, and I know Simon Chopin
can be trusted to be a full member of Debian, and have unsupervised, unrestricted upload rights, right now.
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