Please CC me on replies, I'm not closely following MLs these times. Cross-posted to d-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.d.o and debichem-devel@l.a.d.o, but further discussion on this topic should be directed to d-newmaint@l.d.o. On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 04:55:25PM +0000, NM Front Desk wrote: > Auth-Key: nmauthc7ce0c742511b1647dda5e06b315aad3 > Applicant: Filippo Rusconi <rusconi-debian@laposte.net> I have served as Filippo's sponsor and mentor for several years, where he maintained the Debian package of his software, polyxmass and then massxpert. He later added some other scientific software; I then typically reviewed the initial upload, with DM-Upload-Allowed bit set. The quality of these initial uploads has become such that it matches / exceeds the quality of a typical Debian package. He has been maintaining most of these packages as part of the "Debian Science" nebula / Debichem, which he has joined. Maybe some people from there have comments on the collaboration? He has shown on multiple times that he is an avid learner and reader; if a situation is documented, he is able to find said documentation and apply the documented solution. I've seen him be very responsive to bug reports. He's eager to perfection the packaging above the usual Debian community standards (e.g. separation between build-arch and arch-indep, which is hard to get right and few package maintainers bother doing). On the basis of this collaboration, it is my opinion that Filippo can be trusted with unlimited upload rights; I'm convinced he won't abuse them. He has shown in the past the humility to have his work checked before upload when he was unsure in the slightest about a situation or bug, even when the upload technically allowed under his DM "powers". From his character, I know he will rather ask, either in private or publicly on a ML, than potentially screwing up an upload. I consider him capable of doing most of packaging work without asking for advice. More fundamentally, he has been faithfully contributing to (and advocating) Debian; I strongly think he should be welcomed as a member of the project, and have voting rights. On the political side, he's a free software advocate, through and through. Both generally in life, and with the special link that (in our opinion) free software has with scientific research. His students can testify of this: switching to a free software environment is part of the contract for them :) -- Lionel
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