Hello,

I recommend to accept Dima Kogan as a new Debian Developer, uploading.
The account name is dkogan.

 * Applicant background

Hi. I've been a Debian user since 2001. At the time I was using RedHat. Its 
software-update mechanisms were so painful that I simply didn't keep my system 
up-to-date, which resulted in somebody hacking my box through a known ssh 
vulnerability. I moved to Debian, and never looked back. It was a breath of 
fresh air. The update mechanism WORKED and the system felt much more clean and 
organized.

I'm a big fan of standards and conventions, so I feel strongly that we would 
all be better served by focusing our effort on a smaller number of larger 
projects than a large number of small projects. Forks are bad, and the 
proliferation of (distros, languages, tools, etc) helps nobody. I want to 
improve Debian because for better or worse, it's in wide use, and familiar to 
many. By making Debian better, we can benefit many people and retain users we 
already have.

So far I'm maintaining (and co-maintaining) a number of packages. I report and 
fix bugs regularly. Most recently, I've been helping with the 
multiarch-friendly cross toolchains to make Debian a nice environment for 
foreign-arch development.



Regards,

Thijs Kinkhorst

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