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.