-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 For nm.debian.org, at 2024-02-10:
I support Francesco Ballarin <francesco.balla...@unicatt.it>'s request to become a Debian Maintainer. I know Francesco Ballarin from the FEniCS project (a library for automated finite element computations). I've known him casually at a member of that community for several years, and in direct communication for more than a year. We organised the FEniCS2023 conference together in June 2023 in Italy. So I've gotten to know him well in person. I caught up with him in person when I visited Milan in December, that's when we got the idea that he should consider joining Debian as a debian developer. I have already signed his gpg key. Francesco is a mathematician by profession, and highly competent with his own upstream projects, https://fem-on-colab.github.io/, https://multiphenics.github.io/ I was thinking to start preparing to package multiphenics for debian, but realised he is perfectly capable of doing it himself. In preparation for this application application he has already solved a number of longstanding issues in some of our packages (dolfin), helped update others to latest upstream releases (petsc, gmsh, pygmsh), and has also prepared a number of new packages which are now uploaded by sponsors. I have opened a number of new projects on salsa for packages of interest to us both, which he has been able to independently load with upstream source and a new debian dir read for upload to the NEW queue (adios4dolfinx, python-scooter, pyvista, also ngspetsc). Finally, Francesco has also started packaging his own upstream source for debian (pusimp, multiphenicsx). I have personally worked with Francesco Ballarin <francesco.balla...@unicatt.it> (key 1B5D04B1E507BBF03669E2B801F35FC33E73AF8C) for 1.5 years, and I know Francesco Ballarin can be trusted to have upload rights for his own packages, right now. In short, Francesco is a strongly capable coder and a thoroughly decent human being. It will be great to have him on team. Drew Parsons Cagliari, 10/2/2024 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEI8mpPlhYGekSbQo2Vz7x5L1aAfoFAmXHT4cACgkQVz7x5L1a Afojdg/7BSVztqIx1M9C0NDTksh79bCZxaKbvMYw3inCz6e+XZZeMwLlOMYAehRr N1SLz3Ak5Pc52SyyyyfDtiuNomfKc4WkYaYcHmnhS15gx8KfpRxAU7vMo3XSJYHj wisqgWmcBBNP9Jh7bBWbohWzHQBD80FxFbVpXEFEMW0dZDdJxoqpodHo8Smt6QBk ne59h/K/QbHy6GpL4ObXD2jF2+BUMTbD6ZVHSBsi3GO5GoRt5fECwiBf8sg7fYwR wHKkj+9sffM+1URvcAUbuODY6m9Ni3Imd/AoEa3u6beq7aXdakhHRBKJZ0qT9VF7 iArJA8cW7q6jI5mS4x95rpuY8mQfWgZuBiD0YJqwnRUQFQWrJ7r01JPMWaMjNBZV X8l8o7F4+cwQ1KuMszhz+Vwmv1btZFwLo2G/IhvPJ0QZTmpFhKa9YeTpqEZAwS4U fSile5ZXzWdJDklQNt7e8zN7Mg1FA/2vgkEcU8oHXeJFLTgJxhKbCJ3SJDjDExK/ Xrsce/trMpgOrUAOHXY9+uYJO2yul/ScQSOSxDyDIr6/FxPP9AObwYp3LDQiQtgB 3+fPs7cGlJbeIJyH+6JYYQSesq3QqjJTGRRhAInT15NlspTTrhASwPRbQKJIelor yxKLoilZutBpMZ2x8PQYvaYv4JUkWCBaCWVLrIelSeWMzUMVCoM= =sPoO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Drew Parsons (via nm.debian.org) For details and to comment, visit https://nm.debian.org/process/1253/ -- https://nm.debian.org/process/1253/
