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This page collects statements of advocacy for Francesco Ballarin <francesco.ballarin@unicatt.it> to become a Debian Maintainer.

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This requirement has been approved by Housekeeping Robot <nm@debian.org> 1 year, 3 months ago.

This process has been closed by gwolf on 2024-02-10: no further modifications are possible.

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For nm.debian.org, at 2024-02-10:

I support Francesco Ballarin <francesco.ballarin@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.ballarin@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

Signed with key 23C9 A93E 5858 19E9 126D 0A36 573E F1E4 BD5A 01FA

dparsons

2024-02-10

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For nm.debian.org, at 2024-02-06:
I support Francesco Ballarin <francesco.ballarin@unicatt.it>'s request to become a Debian Maintainer.
I have reviewed and uploaded several versions of gmsh package, prepared by Francesco
in the last several weeks and I consider him as having sufficient technical competence.

I have communicated with Francesco Ballarin <francesco.ballarin@unicatt.it>
(key 1B5D04B1E507BBF03669E2B801F35FC33E73AF8C) and I know Francesco Ballarin
can be trusted to have upload rights for his own packages, right now.

Signed with key BBBD 45EA 818A B86F F67E 7285 D3E1 7383 CFA7 FF06

gladk

2024-02-06

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Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2024-02-10 10:28	dparsons	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2024-02-10 10:28	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2024-02-06 05:35	gladk	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2024-02-06 05:35	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes