I, Artur Rona, apply for MOTU.

Who I am

Only what we have for free, we have to do ourselves.

This is my motto for contributing to Ubuntu.

My name is Artur and I study logistics. I'm from Tczew and my moniker is Ari - so these are components of my nickname.

My Ubuntu story

I was MOTU already since September 2010 till April 2011. Now I came back and since 15th July do some work for Ubuntu.

My involvement

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

* Reduction of difference between Debian and Ubuntu

Work done since July 2013: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6402818/ (status 12.11.2013)

Areas of work

• Merges
• Syncs
• Security Uploads

Things I could do better

• Debian packages management
• Minimalize Ubuntu's delta
• More help with translations

Plans for the future

General

I want to invite contributors from my country and help them with start packaging. Besides this, I want to implement Ubuntu Quick Response Strategy (my own).

What I like least in Ubuntu

I'm concerned of:

• unactive sponsors since joined MOTU
• too long response from sponsors for main and SRU due to many bugs subscribed

Comments

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Endorsements

As a sponsor, just copy the template below, fill it out and add it to this section.

Iain Lane

General feedback

I sponsored a few syncs and merges for Artur and didn't find any issues with them.

Specific Experiences of working together

Areas of Improvement

It'd be nice if you branched out into more general bug fixing; developing your own fixes.

MartinPitt

General feedback

I have sponsored 6 packages for Arthur a while ago (karmic to natty), 5 of them being merges. There hasn't been any problem out of the ordinary (like fighting with broken UDD branches). I don't have much recent experience, only four sponsored syncs in saucy. I have no objection at all against reactivating his MOTU credentials, I just cannot give an explicit recommendation at this point due to lack of recent experience. Thanks Artur!

Specific Experiences of working together

• Recent saucy syncs: 1203548, 1203874, 1203879, 1203882

• sane-backends natty merge (fairly complex)

• gdm karmic SRU (simple)

-- pitti 2013-09-06 08:09:01

Daniel Holbach (dholbach)

General feedback

I sponsored a couple of merges and syncs for Artur and they were all of good quality, so I support his application to rejoin MOTU.

Specific Experiences of working together

https://code.launchpad.net/~ari-tczew/ubuntu/saucy/evas/merge-from-debian/+merge/177291 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/asterisk/+bug/1205644 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/syslog-ng/+bug/1205125 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/networkmanagement/+bug/1205545 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/olap4j/+bug/1213081 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/calcurse/+bug/1213067 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/urfkill/+bug/1213062 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netcf/+bug/1214669 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/love/+bug/1214672 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/audacious-plugins/+bug/1215168 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dnsmasq/+bug/1216819 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mpj/+bug/1216416

Michael Terry (mterry)

General feedback

I've recently sponsored a handful of syncs for Artur and they were all correct. Syncs aren't quite as interesting as merges for gauging competence, but my interactions with him have been good. He's been knowledgeable and helpful.

Specific Experiences of working together

Trusty syncs: 1254023, 1254038, 1254055, 1254082, 1254150

Sebastien Bacher

Similar to others, I've been sponsoring some sync requests for Artur, his bug reports are usually detailled enough and the sources were indeed good to be synced.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fenics/+bug/1216796 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libpam-mount/+bug/1216439 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sombok/+bug/1247505 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-babel/+bug/1247511 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pam-p11/+bug/1247518 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ekg/+bug/1248604 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gluegen2/+bug/1248619

Dimitri John Ledkov

General feedback

Specific Experiences of working together

Dmitry Shachnev

General Feedback

I have sponsored some sync requests for Artur and I am happy that he works on reducing the difference between Debian and Ubuntu.

Note that I have not sponsored any merges or Ubuntu-specific uploads for him (maybe only reviewed some), so I don't know how good he is at that.

Specific Experiences of working together

Areas of Improvement

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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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