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I would question this application. Bhavani is a keen self promoter and has made contributions with questionable background workings. While undoubted a contributor the way he goes about it and the work passed off as his own content is questionable. This is not me saying "no" to membership, this is me raising a concern and question. -- [[https://edge.launchpad.net/~matt-darcy|ikonia]] Hello matt, I could not understand what were you referring to.. I ve also made mistakes in the past but I have taken care to correct those mistakes and have come a long way learning something related to ubuntu, If you have any doubts about my contribution I ll step down from my ubuntu membership gladly though --[[https://edge.launchpad.net/~bhavi|Bhavani Shankar]] |
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I, Bhavani Shankar, apply for MOTU.
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Bhavani Shankar |
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Who I am
I am a 23 year old cerebral palsy physically challenged guy and an Electrical engineer from Bangalore India
My Ubuntu story
My involvement in the community started back in 2007 where i worked on the forums (answered to around 4000 questions) which I really like doing Gradually I did a bit of translation in my mother tongue kannada and now active in bug triaging and packaging over past year and a half.I am an ubuntu member from November 2007
My involvement
My involvement In the commmunity ranges from the answer tracker to translations to malone and soyuz of late (from the intrepid cycle) .. My list of packages can be found here
Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of
Mostly I work on merges and syncs and new upstream versions and bugfixes. Some bugs I have worked and fixed:
* https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/436540
* https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/350825
* https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/401344
* https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/407675
* https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/407688
* https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/400102
* https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/393105
* https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-pylibacl/+bug/391574
* https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/439934
* https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/456419
* https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/504137
* https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/504140
* https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/503789
* https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/487876
* https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/508729
In Jaunty release cycle with the collaboration of dholbach and hamish in debian I updated the whole geda stack in ubuntu (some of them which had missing build dep on intltool which I forwarded to debian and got it synced here) Some of the bug reports:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgeda/+bug/322648
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/geda-gattrib/+bug/334373
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/geda-doc/+bug/336257
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/geda-utils/+bug/337231
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/geda-symbols/+bug/337234
I am active in updating gnome-lirc-properties from Jaunty cycle
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/317969
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/350825
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/482676
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/592547
Some of the other bugs I have worked on:
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/321079 (Inkscape merge in jaunty)
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/318366 (galculator merge in jaunty)
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/317368 (gnumeric merge in jaunty)
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/314984 (openssl merge in jaunty)
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/315364 (sane-backends merge in jaunty)
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/308856 (avahi merge in jaunty)
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/326823 (xchat merge in jaunty)
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/379974 (amule merge in karmic)
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/321866 (firmware-tools update in jaunty)
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/504241 (update in lucid of the same)
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/590130 (update of the package in maverick)
Updates of ugene package:
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/405922
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/486583
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ugene/+bug/606642
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/326830 (update in jaunty)
Other bugs I worked on:
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/386220
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/392225
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/393105
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/393717
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/398130 (apache2 merge in karmic)
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/399211 (merge of iptables in karmic)
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/401080
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/386705
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/398701 (perl merge in karmic)
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/404856 (ltrace merge in karmic)
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/400102
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/398229
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/404876 (ucommon update in karmic)
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/601976 (ucommon update in maverick)
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/401775 (dell-dup update in karmic)
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/classads/+bug/610149 (classads update in maverick)
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/401344
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/406890 (irssi merge in karmic)
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/478334 (autoconf merge in lucid)
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/492141 (ppoeconf merge in lucid)
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/481066 (fakeroot merge in lucid)
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/503789
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/486316 (wordpress merge in lucid)
https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/356457 (mnemosyne merge in lucid)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/487876 (fakesync of checkgmail in lucid)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/591333 (fakesync of the same package in maverick)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/594934 (libcddb fakesync in maverick)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/596757 (libass fakesync in maverick)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/525824
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/606153 (dput merge in maverick)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/600945 (pyao merge Fixes FTBFS)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/592526 (zsh-beta manual merge in maverick) (Since MoM is broken/not updated for this package)
(See: https://merges.ubuntu.com/z/zsh-beta/)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/602521 (iok new version in maverick)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599277 (firmware-extract new version in maverick)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414247 (firmware-addon-dell new version in maverick)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/579747 (harpia new version in maverick)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/371076 (gresistor bugfix in maverick)
Some FTBFS bugs I have worked on recently:
https://launchpad.net/bugs/592602
https://launchpad.net/bugs/596452
https://launchpad.net/bugs/595827
https://launchpad.net/bugs/596615
https://launchpad.net/bugs/597079
https://launchpad.net/bugs/596890
https://launchpad.net/bugs/599311
https://launchpad.net/bugs/600129
https://launchpad.net/bugs/599795
https://launchpad.net/bugs/601029
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/598118
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/600596
https://launchpad.net/bugs/601893
https://launchpad.net/bugs/601390
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599059
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/609758 (zoneminder FTBFS in maverick)
(Some of the packages failed to build with new ffmpeg and I fixed few packages by defining STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS which is a workaround to allow C++ programs to use macros specified in the C99 standard that aren't in the C++ standard AFAIK.)
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/contacts-snapshot/+bug/609066 (contacts-snapshot FTBFS in maverick)
(Some packages like this one FTBFS due to inability of the compiler to locate the header file and I fixed and got it to build on my PPA by adding a check on the package containing the header file in configure.ac and linking compiile flags to preprocessor compile flags)
Few SRU requests that I filed recently:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mobile-broadband-provider-info/+bug/607788
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587345
Long list of packages uploaded can be found here
Areas of work
I mainly work on merges and syncs and updating packages and fixing FTBFS. Especially I m interested in Science packages (Electronics to be precise) and as a part of the MOTU science team as a long standing contributor (https://edge.launchpad.net/~motuscience/+members#active) and I maintain few packages in debian Major notable things are:
reviving xoscope in debian http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xoscope/news/20090814T121741Z.html
maintaining mobile-broadband-provider-info in debian from close to a year where I forward bugs upstream according to their relevance and do a git pull twice a month and update the package in debian and due to its integration with NM now the popcon of the package has risen almost exponentially
(http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=mobile-broadband-provider-info)
Copied emu8051 from ubuntu and almost repackaged it completely with packaging improvements to comply with modern standards
http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/emu8051/news/20100617T184717Z.html
Serving on board of pkg-electronics as a senior packager/developer
https://alioth.debian.org/users/bhavi-guest
Things I could do better
Perhaps maintain more packages in debian and in ubuntu and work on SRU's more
Plans for the future
Just to keep contributing in a single hand as long as possible
General
* Continue to keep contributing in whichever small way I can.
What I like least in Ubuntu
ubuntu-revu seems somewhat less transparent to especially new guys who want to get their package into ubuntu as compared to debian-mentors where packagers put the links to their packages from mentors.debian.net on debian mentors mailing list and DD's give a quick response thereby packagers feel impressed and pushed even more to get their package into debian
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@. Bhavani is tireless in merging, syncing and fixing FTBFS. IMHO there is no need for a debate on whether he should become a MOTU or not! -- Bilal Akhtar
I would question this application. Bhavani is a keen self promoter and has made contributions with questionable background workings. While undoubted a contributor the way he goes about it and the work passed off as his own content is questionable. This is not me saying "no" to membership, this is me raising a concern and question. -- ikonia
Hello matt, I could not understand what were you referring to.. I ve also made mistakes in the past but I have taken care to correct those mistakes and have come a long way learning something related to ubuntu, If you have any doubts about my contribution I ll step down from my ubuntu membership gladly though --Bhavani Shankar
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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