Hello, I have worked with Andrew Ruthven both on Debian (around the mythtv-status package) and professionally at Catalyst IT.
Andrew has both broad and deep technical skills. Whether it is for git questions or IPv6 troubleshooting, Andrew is the man. He is also one of the strongest Debian advocates at our company and knows quite a lot about packaging and the different Debian procedures. When I initially approached him to package his mythtv-status project, I was surprised to find that he had already packaged it for himself and that the packaging didn't need much work to be up to the Debian standards. He was very keen on implementing my suggestions and was very quick to fix all of the small issues that needed resolving. Aside from the packaging itself, Andrew was also very responsive to user bugs and suggestions (whether from Debian or the Ubuntu package that he tracks as well). He even got in touch with another Debian developer to extend the molly-guard package and provide ways for mythtv-status (or any other package for that matter) to integrate with it. Andrew understands the job of maintainer quite well and especially the role that Debian plays in the wider Free Software community. For instance, he has contacted upstream developers of the MythTV project and pushed some of the patches that he has applied to it as part of his Debian packaging work. I have no doubt that Andrew will continue to be a productive contributor to Debian and look forward to his increased involvement in the project. Regards, Francois
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