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This page collects statements of advocacy for Tong Sun <suntong001@users.sourceforge.net> to become a Debian Maintainer.

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I support Tong SUN <suntong001@users.sourceforge.net>'s request
to become Debian Maintainer.

I have borrowed and benefited from Tong Sun's work on the zh-autoconvert
Debian package. zh-autoconvert had been suffering from outdated packaging
and a FTBFS bug, and when I finally got around to fix those issues in
November 2015, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that that Tong Sun
had already done much of the renewal work back in early 2014, and had made
his work freely available at

https://github.com/suntong/zh-autoconvert-build/tree/master/debian

and that had definitely lessened my workload in preparing the upload of
zh-autoconvert (0.3.16-4).

Tong Sun has also packaged two software programs, namely dbab and shc, that
he personally wrote, for Debian. Both were rather nicely packaged,
were sponsor-uploaded by other reputable DDs, and have been part of Debian
since 2014.

At the local Edmonton Go Meetup held on 29 May 2017, i.e. just this past
Monday[1], local Go guru Gerrit Renker gave an enlightening presentation on
Code Generation[2], in which he went through the rationales and the many tools
that he had tried, many were not too satisfactory, until he came across
a tool called "easygen"[3][4] which he found very well thought-out and versatile,
and which quickly became his favourite solution for all his code generation needs.

And who wrote easygen? It turns out to be none other than our Tong Sun!
What a pleasant surprise! It is a small world after all...
Gerrit also commented that Tong Sun is very pleasant to work with.
Gerrit has recently contributed to easygen via pull requests on GitHub.

[1]: https://edmontongo.org/2017-05/
[2]: https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/master/2017-05/code-generation
[3]: http://suntong.github.io/blogs/2016/01/01/easygen---easy-to-use-universal-code/text-generator/
[4]: https://github.com/go-easygen/easygen

I have personally worked with Tong Sun <suntong001@users.sourceforge.net>
(key A77985AD72B4CA08D8C5BF79885FDAB331FED834) since November 2015,
and given his versatile programming skills (sh, C, Go, etc.) in creating
ingenious solutions, and his proven Debian packaging skills, I know
Tong Sun can be trusted to have upload rights for his own packages,
right now.

I look forward to seeing more of Tong Sun's work entering Debian,
and I look forward to advocating Tong Sun to become DD in the near future.

Best regards,

Anthony Fok
2017-06-01
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Signed with key 1424 21B1 9AD4 A959 96F9 5072 EA25 00B4 12C5 9ACF

foka

2017-06-01

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For nm.debian.org, at 2017-06-06:
I support Tong Sun <suntong001@users.sourceforge.net>'s request to become
Debian Maintainer.

I have worked with Tong Sun on the ddclient package and he did most of the work
to get it back into shape for the upload of ddclient 3.8.2-1. That was in 2014
but Tong Sun has continued to contribute to Debian ever since.

We somewhat lost contact as Tong Sun really scratched his own itch when helping
with ddclient but he got back to me now asking if I would advocate for him.
I spent some time to follow up on a some bugs handled by him on bugs.debian.org
and was impressed both by his skills in social interaction and his knowledge
about Linux technologies.

I have personally worked with Tong Sun <suntong001@users.sourceforge.net> since
July 2014, and I know Tong Sun can be trusted to have upload rights for his own
packages, right now.

Unfortunately, we did not use signed emails in our conversations so I can not
associate my impressions with a GPG key. I only merged changes based on
technical merits.

Signed with key 8A4D 01D9 83DF 73C5 1DCC 745B 3083 55FA 32C5 067D

torsten

2017-06-07

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Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2017-06-07 18:33	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2017-06-07 18:33	torsten	add_statement	Added a signed statement	yes
2017-06-01 23:14	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2017-06-01 23:14	foka	add_statement	Added a signed statement	yes