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I hereby support Alexandre Mestiashvili <alex@biotec.tu-dresden.de>'s request
to become Debian Developer, uploading.

He is a long-time contributor to Debian Med, of which I have been a member of
for more than 5 years as well.
In Debian Med, Alexandre has been maintaining tools that are widespread and
important in the bioinformatics community, like, for example, bowtie2, tophat
and cufflinks. I have touched some of his packages while doing regular update
work and I can confirm they always were in a good state. I was also happy to
see Alexandre move beyond the core focus of Debian Med as he has now also
started to care about packages in a broader scope, such as hdparm and various
Python and Perl packages.
Alexandre and I have personally met at the Debian Med sprint in Kiel, Germany
in 2013, and I remember both personal and technical discussions as pleasant.

- From what I can see from his contributions and my personal impression, he can
be trusted to have full, unsupervised, unrestricted upload to the archive right
now.
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