Tong Sun: Advocate
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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 zh-autoconvert had been suffering from outdated packaging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
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Anthony Fok (via nm.debian.org)
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