Announcing recent DMB approvals

[Christian Ehrhardt]

Hello everyone,
it is a pleasure to let you know that the Ubuntu developer population
keeps growing.
The DMB has recently held two "mega days" combining multiple
applications to avoid the applicant from having to wait for too long.

Utkarsh already announced the two new core-developers of the session
two weeks ago [1][2] John Chittum and Alessandro Astone. Yesterday we
processed another 5 applications in an exhausting but successful 5
hour meeting block. Please welcome and congratulate
- Mateus Morais for establishing the dotnet-toolchain packagset and
being the first of its members [3]
- Hector Cao to be approved for the Server packageset [4]
- Guilherme Puida  to also be approved for the Server packageset [5]
- Talha Can Havadar for PPU on several llama related packages [6]
- Charles Turner for PPU on several gstreamer related packages [7]

For those considering to apply, you canfind the greetings, the
discussions and all the grilling in the meeting logs [8] to prepare
yourself.

We have a phase of mid-year PTOs ahead, which means we will skip a few
DMB meetings that can't reach qorum - once back we might revisit
pulling applicants together for another mega day. Not only do we have
four more applicants already queued, but we also had a few visitors to
the public meeting who want to prepare to apply themselves.

I also want to thank all the Mentors out there! Community teaching
each other in reviews (rigor) and mentoring relationships (focus) is
likely even more important than our continuous stream of documentation
improvement (scale) to explain the recently increased amount of
applicants and their improved success rate.

Happy uploading!

[1]: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2026-June/043627.html
[2]: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2026-June/043628.html
[3]: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/application-dotnet-packageset-mateus-morais/83935
[4]: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/application-server-packageset-hector-cao/83649
[5]: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/application-server-package-set-guilheme-puida-moreira/84221
[6]: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/application-ppu-ggml-ggml-cuda-llama-cpp-whisper-cpp-llama-vim-libjjml-java-talha-can-havadar/80272
[7]: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/application-ppu-for-media-packages-charles/80232
[8]: https://ubuntu.com/project/docs/who-makes-ubuntu/councils/dmb-meetings/#meeting-logs

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Christian Ehrhardt
Director of Engineering, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd