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| '''I, Simon Chopin, apply for MOTU status within the Ubuntu community.''' | '''I, Alexandre Ghiti, apply for MOTU status within the Ubuntu community.''' |
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| || '''Name''' || Simon Chopin || || '''Launchpad Page''' || https://launchpad.net/~schopin || |
|| '''Name''' || Alexandre Ghiti || || '''Launchpad Page''' || https://launchpad.net/~alexghiti || |
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| * I have taken an active role within the development community that requires to be able to communicate on all dev channels, including the ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com ML, which is moderated for non-dev members. |
* I have contributed quite a few packages now, to both Debian and Ubuntu and feel comfortable enough with the overall process. |
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| * I'll be involved in multiple uploads throughout the archive as part of my Foundations work, dealing with transitions and toolchains updates, and would like to decrease the pressure on the sponsorship queue. | * I sometimes worked on a package, waiting for a sponsor, and someone else uploaded it in the meantime: this is a waste of time for everyone. |
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| * Being a MOTU means I can help clear the sponsorship queue, selfishly meaning Core devs have more time to look at my work ;-) |
* I will help clear the sponsorship queue. * I want to get more responsibility, because the more responsible, the more I feel involved and happy to contribute. |
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| I am a software engineer hailing from Brittany, France, currently employed by Canonical within the Foundations team. When I'm not working on the internals of Ubuntu as part of my dayjob, you'll usually find me playing either music or videogames, both of which usually involve fiddling with my computer setup ;-). | I am a software engineer living in Grenoble, France, I currently work in the Foundations team for Canonical. For a few years now, my focus is RISC-V, more specifically the kernel and when I don't work on this subject, I work on some personal projects (all involve my computer of course :)). |
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| My Ubuntu story is, for a big part, a Debian story. | I discovered free software late when I entered my engineering school in Grenoble where I studied operating systems. And I began contributing to open source softwares with the kernel as I had experience in this area from my first job and I was willing to help (and have fun too). |
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| Ubuntu was my first successful attempt at Linux back in 2006 on an old laptop, thanks to the free CD shipping program that was running back then. I kept running a dual-boot until 2009, when I had a new laptop which couldn't run the latest Ubuntu but could run the latest Debian. I pragmatically switched to the mother distro, and over the years ended up involved in Python packaging (DPMT and PAPT teams), indirectly working for Ubuntu ;-). Ironically, my FLOSS contributions died down when I used Ubuntu again, both due to my first job after college. It was only server-side, but its extra-long version strings felt very familiar indeed! I became the resident expert on deploying our applications on our servers, putting my packaging knowledge to good use. After a few years, I switched jobs, and ended up maintaining a whole internal distribution based on Debian, as well as spearheading a grassroot movement to have technical roles in the company use Linux laptops instead of OSX, insisting on Ubuntu LTS on those. This led me to my current job at Canonical, where I'm happily greasing the internal wheels of Ubuntu so that other, more user-facing teams can deliver a good experience to all of our users, including myself and many around me who've switched to Ubuntu. |
I usually had a Linux Mint distribution from the time of my cheap student laptop and then switched to Ubuntu when I installed it to some close relatives a few years ago, so I guess I have always used Ubuntu. |
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| As part of the Foundations team, my area of impact includes language toolchains, bootloaders, installer, and other core components of the system. I've touched a rather wide range of packages, mostly C libraries and utilities, but my main involvements are netplan development and OpenSSL packaging, for which I'm currently driving the transition to version 3.0. Outside of my day job, I don't have a big impact at the moment, but my long-term aspirations are to work on reducing the gap between Ubuntu and Debian, and work upstream with the Debian QA team for the good of both their and our archive. |
My focus is on enabling the RISC-V architecture which consists in fixing RISC-V specific issues and adding packages to allow better support of existing hardware. But as part of the Foundations team, it often happens that I have to fix packages outside of the RISC-V scope. |
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| https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/ubuntu-sponsorships.cgi?render=html&sponsor=&sponsor_search=name&sponsoree=*chopin*&sponsoree_search=name | |
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| OpenSSL 3: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2021-August/041589.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2021-October/041639.html |
> 50 sponsored packages: |
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| My Debian Maintainer application, even though I let it lapsed: | https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/ubuntu-sponsorships.cgi?render=html&sponsor=&sponsor_search=name&sponsoree=*ghiti*&sponsoree_search=name |
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| https://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2013/04/msg00005.html | 2 MIRs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libisofs/+bug/1977959 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jigit/+bug/1978066 > 5 SRUs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1944741 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nezha-boot0/+bug/1965260 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/u-boot-nezha/+bug/1976594 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flash-kernel/+bug/1978923 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/livecd-rootfs/+bug/1980929 2 +1 reports: https://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com/msg10177.html https://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com/msg10425.html |
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| As mentioned above, my work leads me to work on OpenSSL- and netplan-related matters. I also have personal interest in the Rust ecosystem and might get involved in its packaging (once we sort it out properly). |
Low-level packages such as u-boot, opensbi, flash-kernel...etc. But actually anything to enhance our RISC-V support. |
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| Actively seek out interactions outside of the Foundations Team! Also, my uploads could be perfectible, as there is usually a detail (such as a bug number) missing. | I don't communicate enough with the community. I think being a MOTU will make me more legitimate and will improve that. I learnt a lot about the processes, but now I have to focus on the details, it happens that I forget a bug number, that I mess a version in my PPA and ask for my sponsor to fix these. And I really need to pay more attention to all the tools that exist to help us. |
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| I of course intend to become Core dev myself, both for my coworkers' sake and mine. | I want to work on the distribution fundamentals and by its nature, the RISC-V architecture may bring new kinds of problems that may need innovative solutions. |
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| There is no clear-cut way to contribute to an existing package. Some are maintained in Launchpad in a git repository somewhere, which isn't obvious to find, some are directly using the archive as "VCS", and expect a debdiff directly on the launchpad bug, but you'll find a git repository for some of those packages still, via the git-ubuntu package, making things that much harder to grasp. | First it would be the sponsoring process: it is very long, random, discouraging and time wasting. I will contribute more knowing that I have upload rights and since nobody will check my work, I'll necessarily pay more attention to details. |
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| I could contrast this with many other distros, but even Debian seems clearer to me, as all "landing pages" for a given package are interlinked and most of them have a link to whatever VCS is used to maintain the package. | Then I think it misses a documentation on the tools that we could use to improve our workflow. |
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| ''As a sponsor, just copy the template below, fill it out and add it to this section.'' | |
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| == Lukas 'slyon' Märdian == === General feedback === I have been mentoring Simon after he joined the Ubuntu Foundations team in early July 2021. Due to his prior Debian experience Simon didn't need a lot of mentoring wrt. distro work, but was able to cooperate with the developer community on #ubuntu-devel in a very transparent and engaged way from the very start! He showed a great learning ability too as he got into the netplan codebase in no time, cranking out high quality pull requests, touching core parts of the application while keeping backwards compatibility, testing and code style in good shape. Besides `netplan.io` SRUs and a `lksctp-tools` sync, I sponsored the `s390-tools[-signed]` package for Simon in "main", which has some special bits to it (wrt. to package signing on Launchpad) that he was easily able to grasp. I also synced `git-remote-hg` (to pull in Debian's autopkgtest fix that Simon spotted) and `racket` into "universe" for Simon to support him during his first "+1 Maintenance" session and reviewed his `haveged` merge that I was able to upload without any nitpicking. He is always attentive and curious about new things that he reads about in some git commits and does not hesitate to ask any questions to the relevant people if anything is unclear. |
* `Lukas ‘slyon’ Märdian General feedback ================ |
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| Simon has collected lots of experience preparing the OpenSSL 3 transition and could put his MOTU powers to good use in helping to clean up the universe outfall after this transition lands. In all of his work he has always focused on delivering high quality results. I trust in his skills and decision making in the best interest of the Ubuntu community. The MOTU membership should only be a first step on Simon path in becoming a Core-Dev and joining additional teams in the future, as he absolutely has the potential to do so. | Alex joined the Ubuntu Foundations team and thus became a collegue in November 2021. He picked up mostly on low-level RISC-V enablement work, but also helped with general distro work, e.g. doing +1 maintenance shifts, handling proposed-migration and doing merges. I haven’t been directly involved with his RISC-V focus topic, but sponsored some more generic changes for him. In total I sponsored 12 uploads for Alex, which are distributed across a sync, no-change rebuild, SRUs, MIRs, merges, bug fixes. So Alex showed to understand all those processes related to the Ubuntu archive. I recommend to use tooling like dput-ng (+ https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-server/+git/ubuntu-helpers/tree/cpaelzer/.dput.d) to catch simple issues earlier, communicating openly with the Ubuntu community on #ubuntu-devel (e.g. asking for sponsorship) and continuing to do +1 maintenance shifts, where having MOTU powers should help a lot to speed things up and give the possibility to learn more about packaging work and the archive (e.g. transition details). |
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| I fully endorse his MOTU application. | I endorse his MOTU application. |
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| === Specific Experiences of working together === ''Please add good examples of your work together, but also cases that could have handled better.'' |
Specific Experiences of working together ======================================== |
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| Besides supporting Simon's daily distro work (as described above) I've primarily worked with him as part of the upstream netplan project. Since joining Canonical he pushed 13 PRs to Github (https://github.com/canonical/netplan/pulls?q=author%3Aschopin-pro) all of which have been of very high quality and great form (i.e. git commit structure & description). He always reacted quickly and open minded to any comments made during review and resolved any issues to everybody's satisfaction. He also jumped in to do upstream netplan reviews for other community members and for myself and has been an excellent sparring partner for me doing so. | Please add good examples of your work together, but also cases that could have handled better. |
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| === Areas of Improvement === There are always new things to learn in Ubuntu. Simon could be creating MIR bugs, do more SRU work (also some special cases, like netplan backports), creating NEW packages and getting packages removed from the archive where needed. In continuing his "+1 Maintenance" engagement he will inevitably come across such cases and grow his abilities while working through them. |
I’ve recently worked with Alex on the libgpg-error/i386 proposed-migration (https://pad.lv/1975673), an issue wich was hard to track down as it involved fixes to the autopkgtest code-base, Multi-Arch fixes to related packages in addition to the usual debugging. Understanding all the relationships, he came up with the final Multi-Arch fix that finally resolved the issue for good. Having my MIR hat on, I’ve also worked with Alex on MIRs related to usb-creator (https://pad.lv/1977959, https://pad.lv/1978066), a process that involves getting four new dependencies accepted into main; Alex worked through all of them and resolved upcoming issues. On the SRU side I sponsored a long-standing nezha-boot0 change for him, which was kind of special, due to bing a full version backport. Alex was involved in the SRU team discussions to getting this exception approved. Areas of Improvement |
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| == Stefano Rivera == === General feedback === I sponsored 37 uploads for Simon in Debian in 2011-2014. We co-maintained beets and he packaged some of the supporting python libraries. There was, of course, a learning process, but by the end of that time I would have felt happy to endorse Simon for uploading rights in Debian. Hopefully we'll see him back there again :) I enjoyed working with him, and think he'll make a great MOTU & core-dev. |
As Alex mentioned himself, I’d recommend putting some more attention to details when working on packages. As a sponsor I had to sometimes fix smaller issues, like adding LP bug numbers to debian/changelog or running update-maintainer on top of his diffs. We also had to re-upload nezha-boot0 due to a typo in the code, which is something that can happen to anyone, but double checking for such details should help to avoid duplicate work in the future. After mentioning issues once, Alex improved upon those for his follow-up sponsoring requests, in addition to submitting relevant patches to Debian and attaching debdiffs/git-ubuntu MPs to the LP bug reports (instead of just providing a PPA build). |
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| === Specific Experiences of working together === | |
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| || source || version || modified || || rgain || 1.0.1-1 || 2011-12-01 13:33:53.377208+00|| || audioread || 0.2-1 || 2011-12-25 13:17:14.703129+00|| || pyacoustid || 0.3-1 || 2011-12-25 13:18:30.182192+00|| || musicbrainzngs || 0.1-1 || 2012-01-20 21:33:23.884628+00|| || beets || 1.0~b12-1 || 2012-01-21 23:32:11.272977+00|| || audioread || 0.3-1 || 2012-02-03 19:32:14.548309+00|| || pylast || 0.5.11-1 || 2012-02-03 22:05:04.967514+00|| || pyacoustid || 0.4-1 || 2012-02-19 22:20:30.732959+00|| || beets || 1.0~b13-1 || 2012-03-21 11:47:11.839511+00|| || pyacoustid || 0.6-1 || 2012-04-05 16:17:51.31752+00|| || musicbrainzngs || 0.2-1 || 2012-04-08 21:05:01.911374+00|| || audioread || 0.5-1 || 2012-04-08 21:32:21.650541+00|| || pytest || 2.2.3-1 || 2012-04-11 15:47:31.014182+00|| || pytest || 2.2.3-2 || 2012-04-13 18:48:00.153076+00|| || pytest || 2.2.3-3 || 2012-04-17 11:34:57.936529+00|| || pyacoustid || 0.7-1 || 2012-06-01 12:06:51.071777+00|| || audioread || 0.6-1 || 2012-06-01 12:47:09.705902+00|| || pytest || 2.2.4-1 || 2012-06-03 01:19:52.348568+00|| || beets || 1.0~b14-2 || 2012-06-04 21:17:22.090818+00|| || execnet || 1.0.9-0.1 || 2012-06-05 17:03:29.305994+00|| || pytest-xdist || 1.8-0.1 || 2012-06-05 17:06:24.942807+00|| || pytest || 2.2.4-2 || 2012-06-24 20:53:31.205968+00|| || audioread || 1.0.1-1 || 2013-05-14 21:18:01.648002+00|| || pyacoustid || 1.0.0-1 || 2013-05-14 21:22:54.165539+00|| || rgain || 1.2-1 || 2013-05-14 21:23:18.220395+00|| || musicbrainzngs || 0.4-1 || 2013-05-26 21:23:25.153856+00|| || mutagen || 1.21-1 || 2013-07-16 21:48:45.025052+00|| || beets || 1.2.1-1 || 2013-07-22 15:03:09.630609+00|| || beets || 1.3.1-1 || 2013-11-30 09:18:55.315917+00|| || audioread || 1.0.3-1 || 2014-09-29 07:48:31.46463+00|| || pyacoustid || 1.1.0-1 || 2014-09-30 16:49:52.25351+00|| || musicbrainzngs || 0.5-1 || 2014-09-30 18:08:04.087775+00|| || responses || 0.2.2-1 || 2014-10-12 21:24:05.166866+00|| || pylast || 1.0.0-1 || 2014-10-14 03:36:06.89226+00|| || responses || 0.3.0-1 || 2014-10-14 03:36:15.460555+00|| || rgain || 1.3.3-1 || 2014-10-16 03:56:42.579458+00|| || beets || 1.3.8+dfsg-1 || 2014-10-23 22:52:03.602286+00|| |
* Lukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak General feedback ================ |
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| === Areas of Improvement === | Alex is responsible for a lot of the RISC-V effort in Ubuntu, and he’s always very thorough in the work that he is doing. Alex is a fast learner and a good hacker, but at the same time he’s not afraid to ask questions in case things are not clear. That being said, he tries to solve issues by himself as much as possible. Seeing his work so far, I’m sure he would do a good MOTU - and this would allow him to further develop his skills and later become a Core Developer. |
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| As this was many years ago, it's hard to recall. Nothing comes to mind. |
Specific experiences of working together ======================================== I only sponsored 4 packages in total, 2 of which were livecd-rootfs related. I was fairly happy with the work he provided with those packages. One of them introduced a regression, which both me and him missed during our initial work there. But those were certain corner cases we simply didn’t take into consideration. Areas of improvement Only areas of improvement I can think of is being more attentive for corner cases. |
I, Alexandre Ghiti, apply for MOTU status within the Ubuntu community.
Name |
Alexandre Ghiti |
Launchpad Page |
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Wiki Page |
N/A |
I am applying because:
* I have contributed quite a few packages now, to both Debian and Ubuntu and feel comfortable enough with the overall process.
* I sometimes worked on a package, waiting for a sponsor, and someone else uploaded it in the meantime: this is a waste of time for everyone.
* I will help clear the sponsorship queue.
* I want to get more responsibility, because the more responsible, the more I feel involved and happy to contribute.
Who I am
I am a software engineer living in Grenoble, France, I currently work in the Foundations team for Canonical. For a few years now, my focus is RISC-V, more specifically the kernel and when I don't work on this subject, I work on some personal projects (all involve my computer of course :)).
My Ubuntu story
I discovered free software late when I entered my engineering school in Grenoble where I studied operating systems. And I began contributing to open source softwares with the kernel as I had experience in this area from my first job and I was willing to help (and have fun too).
I usually had a Linux Mint distribution from the time of my cheap student laptop and then switched to Ubuntu when I installed it to some close relatives a few years ago, so I guess I have always used Ubuntu.
My involvement
My focus is on enabling the RISC-V architecture which consists in fixing RISC-V specific issues and adding packages to allow better support of existing hardware. But as part of the Foundations team, it often happens that I have to fix packages outside of the RISC-V scope.
Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of
Overall:
> 50 sponsored packages:
2 MIRs:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libisofs/+bug/1977959 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jigit/+bug/1978066
> 5 SRUs:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1944741 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nezha-boot0/+bug/1965260 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/u-boot-nezha/+bug/1976594 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flash-kernel/+bug/1978923 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/livecd-rootfs/+bug/1980929
2 +1 reports:
https://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com/msg10177.html https://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com/msg10425.html
Areas of work
Low-level packages such as u-boot, opensbi, flash-kernel...etc. But actually anything to enhance our RISC-V support.
Things I could do better
I don't communicate enough with the community. I think being a MOTU will make me more legitimate and will improve that.
I learnt a lot about the processes, but now I have to focus on the details, it happens that I forget a bug number, that I mess a version in my PPA and ask for my sponsor to fix these.
And I really need to pay more attention to all the tools that exist to help us.
Plans for the future
General
I want to work on the distribution fundamentals and by its nature, the RISC-V architecture may bring new kinds of problems that may need innovative solutions.
What I like least in Ubuntu
First it would be the sponsoring process: it is very long, random, discouraging and time wasting. I will contribute more knowing that I have upload rights and since nobody will check my work, I'll necessarily pay more attention to details.
Then I think it misses a documentation on the tools that we could use to improve our workflow.
Comments
If you'd like to comment, but are not the applicant or a sponsor, do it here. Don't forget to sign with @SIG@.
Endorsements
* `Lukas ‘slyon’ Märdian General feedback ================
Alex joined the Ubuntu Foundations team and thus became a collegue in November 2021. He picked up mostly on low-level RISC-V enablement work, but also helped with general distro work, e.g. doing +1 maintenance shifts, handling proposed-migration and doing merges. I haven’t been directly involved with his RISC-V focus topic, but sponsored some more generic changes for him. In total I sponsored 12 uploads for Alex, which are distributed across a sync, no-change rebuild, SRUs, MIRs, merges, bug fixes. So Alex showed to understand all those processes related to the Ubuntu archive. I recommend to use tooling like dput-ng (+ https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-server/+git/ubuntu-helpers/tree/cpaelzer/.dput.d) to catch simple issues earlier, communicating openly with the Ubuntu community on #ubuntu-devel (e.g. asking for sponsorship) and continuing to do +1 maintenance shifts, where having MOTU powers should help a lot to speed things up and give the possibility to learn more about packaging work and the archive (e.g. transition details).
I endorse his MOTU application.
Specific Experiences of working together ========================================
Please add good examples of your work together, but also cases that could have handled better.
I’ve recently worked with Alex on the libgpg-error/i386 proposed-migration (https://pad.lv/1975673), an issue wich was hard to track down as it involved fixes to the autopkgtest code-base, Multi-Arch fixes to related packages in addition to the usual debugging. Understanding all the relationships, he came up with the final Multi-Arch fix that finally resolved the issue for good. Having my MIR hat on, I’ve also worked with Alex on MIRs related to usb-creator (https://pad.lv/1977959, https://pad.lv/1978066), a process that involves getting four new dependencies accepted into main; Alex worked through all of them and resolved upcoming issues. On the SRU side I sponsored a long-standing nezha-boot0 change for him, which was kind of special, due to bing a full version backport. Alex was involved in the SRU team discussions to getting this exception approved. Areas of Improvement
As Alex mentioned himself, I’d recommend putting some more attention to details when working on packages. As a sponsor I had to sometimes fix smaller issues, like adding LP bug numbers to debian/changelog or running update-maintainer on top of his diffs. We also had to re-upload nezha-boot0 due to a typo in the code, which is something that can happen to anyone, but double checking for such details should help to avoid duplicate work in the future. After mentioning issues once, Alex improved upon those for his follow-up sponsoring requests, in addition to submitting relevant patches to Debian and attaching debdiffs/git-ubuntu MPs to the LP bug reports (instead of just providing a PPA build).
* Lukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak General feedback ================
Alex is responsible for a lot of the RISC-V effort in Ubuntu, and he’s always very thorough in the work that he is doing. Alex is a fast learner and a good hacker, but at the same time he’s not afraid to ask questions in case things are not clear. That being said, he tries to solve issues by himself as much as possible. Seeing his work so far, I’m sure he would do a good MOTU - and this would allow him to further develop his skills and later become a Core Developer.
Specific experiences of working together ========================================
I only sponsored 4 packages in total, 2 of which were livecd-rootfs related. I was fairly happy with the work he provided with those packages. One of them introduced a regression, which both me and him missed during our initial work there. But those were certain corner cases we simply didn’t take into consideration. Areas of improvement
Only areas of improvement I can think of is being more attentive for corner cases.
TEMPLATE
== <SPONSORS NAME> == === General feedback === ## Please fill us in on your shared experience. (How many packages did you sponsor? How would you judge the quality? How would you describe the improvements? Do you trust the applicant?) === Specific Experiences of working together === ''Please add good examples of your work together, but also cases that could have handled better.'' ## Full list of sponsored packages can be generated here: ## https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/ubuntu-sponsorships.cgi === Areas of Improvement ===
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