About me

My name is Anthony Wong, Chinese name is 黃彥邦. I'm a GNU/Linux and open source software enthusiast. I joined Debian as DD in 1999, and have been working in the Linux industry for a long time. Now I'm working at Canonical and am responsible for hardware enablement in Ubuntu.

• irc: ypwong on freenode

• Launchpad profile: https://launchpad.net/~anthonywong

• Personal website: http://www.anthonywong.net

• Email: <ypwong AT SPAMFREE gmail DOT com> (personal), <anthony.wong AT SPAMFREE canonical DOT com> (work)

Contribution

Packages in Debian and Ubuntu

• Rifiuti2 - A MS Windows recycle bin analysis tool

• ibus-cangjie - Cangjie and Quick input methods for IBus, mainly for Hong Kong and Taiwan people.

• libcangjie2 - Cangjie input method library, which ibus-cangjie relies on.

• python3-pycangjie - Python wrapper to libcangjie, as ibus-cangjie is written in Python and so needs a python library of libcangjie.

Ubuntu Work

Ubuntu

• Manage hardware enablement issues on OEM projects and n+1 upstream/backport efforts as can be seen in HWE Next. For how we do n+1, you can read my slide deck of my talk in UHS 2012 and this blog.

• I also belong to the Ubuntu Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong), Ubuntu Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) and Ubuntu Simplified Chinese translation teams, an active translator.

• Helps indicator-keylock to be in a good shape, i.e. lintian clean, for uploading to Ubuntu. - LP: #1392283

Ubuntu Kylin

• I work on the Ubuntu Kylin project, help managing the engineers for bug fixing and will fix one or two from time to time. We hang out at #ubuntukylin-devel on irc.freenode.net.

• Organized the first Ubuntu Kylin release party in Beijing for the 13.04 launch.

• Gave talks about Ubuntu Kylin, one for 13.04 and another for 14.04.

Bug Fixes

• Unity bug 830801 - This is my first patch to Ubuntu, at that time I was still not familiar with the Ubuntu bzr/merge request workflow and so I submitted the patch in the old style, i.e. attaching the patch to the bug.

• Kernel bug 1231305 - Fixed a kernel bug that brightness adjustment does not work on Haswell ULT.

• command-not-found bug 1029204 - Fixed a locale issue.

• gnome-bluetooth bug 1312349 - Fixed a bluetooth bug which so that a certain type of bluetooth keyboard can be connected.

• sudoku-app i18n bug - Cleaned up the sudoku-app so it handles i18n/l10n properly.

• Merged branches can be found here.

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