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I support Douglas Andrew Torrance <dtorrance@piedmont.edu>'s request to become a Debian Developer, uploading.
I have worked with Douglas Andrew Torrance on several packages in R and science teams

Doug is already doing a lot of work on several packages, and all the packages I have reviewed for him have
been of very high quality. On most occasions, I would upload his packages as-is, or with very minor reviews.
The kind of packages Doug maintains, are also, admittedly not easy to maintain - for instance macaulay2, linbox,
qepcad, phcpack (latter two in NEW at the time of advocacy) etc and often involve a wide variety
of languages and build systems, becoming harder to package, however Doug has been able to maintain these very well.
Not only that, he also does upstream work for some of these packages, making the upstream ecosystem better as well.

I have also seen Doug fixing bugs quite regularly, and quickly, and asking for help whenever he is not
sure and/or stuck (something we expect from all contributors :))
He also incorporates any reviews that I leave, and is friendly and constructive.

Doug also has quite some history of contributions, with his first upload dating back to September, 2013 which
is more than nine years ago!
With the solid technical competence that Doug has, coupled with working in a contructive way and fixing things
quickly that Doug has demonstrated for many months, I have no doubt that Doug should be a DD now, and that he
would be an amazing addition to the project.

I have personally worked with Douglas Andrew Torrance <dtorrance@piedmont.edu>
(key 803CE41F4DC252ECB5E5F1B9D12B2BE26D3FF663) for many months, and I know Douglas Andrew Torrance
can be trusted to be a full member of Debian, and have unsupervised, unrestricted upload rights, right now.

Signed with key 3E99 A526 F5DC C0CB BF1C EEA6 00BA E74B 3433 69F1

nilesh

2021-09-29

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For nm.debian.org, at 2021-10-01:
I support Douglas Andrew Torrance <dtorrance@piedmont.edu>'s request to become a Debian Developer, uploading.
I have reviewed and uploaded many packages, prepared by Douglas Andrew Torrance. Among of them are:
frobby, memtailor, mathic, mathicgb, macaulay2, saclib, mpsolve, gfan (maybe some more). His contribution is very
valuable for Debian Science Team.

I have personally worked with Douglas Andrew Torrance <dtorrance@piedmont.edu>
(key 803CE41F4DC252ECB5E5F1B9D12B2BE26D3FF663) for  over six years (since 2015), and I know Douglas Andrew Torrance
can be trusted to be a full member of Debian, and have unsupervised, unrestricted upload rights, right now.

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

gladk

2021-10-01

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Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2021-10-01 07:57	gladk	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2021-10-01 07:57	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2021-09-29 12:08	nilesh	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2021-09-29 12:08	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes