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Areas of work Most of my work probably falls into the category of low hanging fruit. In my work triaging bugs I often come across things with simple fixes that just haven't seen any attention from a developer. While not the hardest work technically speaking, I think it is very important. If for no other reason, users are very often frustrated by such bugs. Especially in cases where someone has taken the time to file a bug and even find a solution, but just doesn't understand Ubuntu processes (i.e. turn their work around into a patch, create a debdiff, or even just know what team needs to be subscribed). So in general, I'm interested in getting Universe into a better state. Something which I suppose must be a good quality in a MOTU. As a GNOME user, I'm of course interested in the Ubuntu desktop, and have done some work in main with the desktop team. (See the "What I like least in Ubuntu" for some difficulties I've had here.) One package I've worked on quite a bit during Jaunty was deluge (and the related libtorrent-rasterbar and qbittorent packages). Doing so I have built a working relationship with the Debian maintainer. I was able to turn our out-dated version into a sync until the python 2.6 transition which I handled (patch submitted to Debian). I've handled the merges since that point. I'm glad to say that Jaunty will ship with the most resent version. More recently, I've been getting involved with the artwork team. I'm not an artist, but I am generally interested in having beautiful GNOME desktop choices for our users. I noticed that one of the things that the artwork team lacks are people familiar with packaging and Ubuntu processes in general. I've worked on both the gnome-themes-ubuntu and community-themes packages. Becoming a MOTU will be helpful with this work (the community-themes package in particular) as there aren't any MOTUs active in the team. I'm also preparing GNOME-Colors and Shiki-Colors packages for Debian with the goal of having them synced into Karmic. |
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Well, I suppose I'd be most proud of the three packages that I maintain directly in Debian: http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/parcellite.html http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/file-browser-applet.html http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/ttf-rufscript.html In my upload of evolution 2.25.91 I split out the documentation into separate locales. It's probably one of my most complicated uploads: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330340 I've also done a number of security and SRU uploads, showing that I have a good understanding of Ubuntu processes. |
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I, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio, apply for MOTU.
Name |
Andrew Starr-Bochicchio |
Launchpad Page |
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Wiki Page |
Who I am
Tell us a bit about yourself.
My Ubuntu story
My involvement
Areas of work
Most of my work probably falls into the category of low hanging fruit. In my work triaging bugs I often come across things with simple fixes that just haven't seen any attention from a developer. While not the hardest work technically speaking, I think it is very important. If for no other reason, users are very often frustrated by such bugs. Especially in cases where someone has taken the time to file a bug and even find a solution, but just doesn't understand Ubuntu processes (i.e. turn their work around into a patch, create a debdiff, or even just know what team needs to be subscribed). So in general, I'm interested in getting Universe into a better state. Something which I suppose must be a good quality in a MOTU.
As a GNOME user, I'm of course interested in the Ubuntu desktop, and have done some work in main with the desktop team. (See the "What I like least in Ubuntu" for some difficulties I've had here.)
One package I've worked on quite a bit during Jaunty was deluge (and the related libtorrent-rasterbar and qbittorent packages). Doing so I have built a working relationship with the Debian maintainer. I was able to turn our out-dated version into a sync until the python 2.6 transition which I handled (patch submitted to Debian). I've handled the merges since that point. I'm glad to say that Jaunty will ship with the most resent version.
More recently, I've been getting involved with the artwork team. I'm not an artist, but I am generally interested in having beautiful GNOME desktop choices for our users. I noticed that one of the things that the artwork team lacks are people familiar with packaging and Ubuntu processes in general. I've worked on both the gnome-themes-ubuntu and community-themes packages. Becoming a MOTU will be helpful with this work (the community-themes package in particular) as there aren't any MOTUs active in the team. I'm also preparing GNOME-Colors and Shiki-Colors packages for Debian with the goal of having them synced into Karmic.
Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of
Well, I suppose I'd be most proud of the three packages that I maintain directly in Debian:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/parcellite.html
http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/file-browser-applet.html
http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/ttf-rufscript.html
In my upload of evolution 2.25.91 I split out the documentation into separate locales. It's probably one of my most complicated uploads:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330340
I've also done a number of security and SRU uploads, showing that I have a good understanding of Ubuntu processes.
Areas of work
Let us know what you worked on, with which development teams / developers you cooperated and how it worked out.
Things I could do better
Plans for the future
General
What I like least in Ubuntu
Please describe what you like least in Ubuntu and what thoughts do you have about fixing it.
Comments
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Endorsements
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== <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.'' === Areas of Improvement ===
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