Thankyou for the advocacy Francois. I've submitted a jetring changeset to the BTS. I believe that all that needs to be done now is for me to wait and cross my fingers that noone objects?
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 23:26 +1200, Francois Marier wrote: > Hello, > > I have first dealt with Martin while working to get the Xdebug package into > Debian. He found my email on the ITP for it and asked whether I would > sponsor his package. After I told him that someone else had already built > and submitted an Xdebug package (which got rejected for licensing reasons), > he turned out to be extremely cooperative. > > He offered (and prooceded) to: > - help out getting in touch with the upstream developer > - merge the two Debian packages > - organise a bazaar repository to co-maintain the package with the other > packager and wrote instructions with a recommended workflow > - have a look at the php-xdebug package in Ubuntu (missing from Debian) > > And before I even asked, he took care of making sure that the Ubuntu and > Debian packages be in sync by requesting the removal of the Ubuntu > php-xdebug package (LP#234960). > > I found that Martin was very motivated and extremely responsive to > feedback. He took care of applying my suggestions to his package very > quickly and he even stayed on IRC long enough to discuss some things with > me, despite the considerable timezone differences. > > I have also interacted with Martin with respect to the rar package for which > I sponsored a few of his uploads. There, I was impressed with how thorough > he was in search of the answers to his auto-building problems. He got to the > bottom of the problems, both political and technical. He has a deep > understanding of how Debian works and he definitely gets things done. > > I am convinced that Martin will be a productive member of the Debian project > and I enthusiastly recommend that he be accepted as a Debian Maintainer. I > will be more than happy to sponsor the last uploads he needs to take care of > his packages. > > Regards, > > Francois -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
