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I, Bjoern Michaelsen, apply for upload rights for package(s) LibreOffice.

Name

Bjoern Michaelsen

IRC

Sweetshark

Launchpad Page

https://launchpad.net/~bjoern-michaelsen

Wiki Page

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/bjoern-michaelsen

Who I am

I was working as a fulltime developer on OpenOffice.org since 2008 for Sun/Oracle in the writer framework team. Since February 2011, I am working at Canonical and take part in LibreOffice development.

I am also a member of the LibreOffice Engineering Steering Committee from its first announcement and an elected Deputy Director of the Board at the Document Foundation.

My Ubuntu story

As a firm believer in open source, I want to strengthen the position of LibreOffice on the Linux desktop. Ubuntu is simply the best general propose linux desktop available right now and I am excited to be part of that. I have been a Linux user since 2002 mostly on gentoo and Ubuntu.

I am essentially solely responsible for LibreOffice packaging on Ubuntu for Natty, Oneiric, Precise, Quantal and am working on Raring right now.

AFAIK, I am currently also the only Ubuntu guy having commit access to the Ubuntu/Debian LibreOffice packaging repository at http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-openoffice/libreoffice.git;a=summary -- Rene Engelhard, the Debian maintainer, is the other and main commiter there.

My involvement

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

Back at Oracle I reworked the build system of OpenOffice.org. Over the last 2 years LibreOffice migrated to thus build system on a module-by-module basis. The new build system removes a lot of old cruft and simplifies things like porting to new platforms. LibreOffice is using the new build system and we are profiting greatly from its use.

Directly on Ubuntu I worked on getting the transition from OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice done on the Natty release and was the maintainer for LibreOffice ever since. I also helped working on the lo-menubar integrating LibreOffice into Unity and the worked on the functionality replacing lo-menubar in Quantal by having the functionality directly in LibreOffice. This was upstream for LibreOffice 4.0.

Over the year 2012, I helped kickstarting the QA team at upstream LibreOffice with leading conference calls every second week. LibreOffice QA seems to be self-sufficient by now (2013), and I hope I can delegate more and more of that responsibility.

I created bibisect -- one git repository with 262 completed builds of LibreOffice that help hunting down regressions. The effort has been enthusiatically received upstream at LibreOffice an is being integrated now in the daily builds/tinderboxes.

I lead the initiative to introduce structured code review for LibreOffice. This in production now for manual review and will be integrated with tinderboxes real soon (so that you can upload a patch, and get it build and tested on all platforms).

Areas of work

Things I could do better

Learn more about how packaging is done 'properly' for packages not as specialized as LibreOffice. Unfortunately, LibreOffice leaves me no time for that right now.

Plans for the future

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/~bjoern-michaelsen

General

What I like least in Ubuntu

Bug 1 is not fixed yet.


Comments

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Endorsements

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Martin Pitt

I have been mentoring Bjoern since he joined Ubuntu development in February, and have uploaded most (all?) of his OO.o/LibO uploads since then. I was truly impressed how fast he managed to understand the very complex packaging, and he quickly picked up the usual packaging tools/procedures. He also managed to fix nontrivial bugs in the supporting packages around LibO, such as spell checkers, hyphenation, etc. I trust him to upload libreoffice and -l10n himself now, and to ask about new scenarious/problems he does not know about yet.

Thanks Bjoern!

-- pitti 2011-05-02 14:29:56

(entry written by Bjoern): Rene Engelhard (asked on IRC)

I asked Rene Engelhard (Debian maintainer for LibreOffice on IRC) about an endorsement. His reply (in german) was essentially: "Are you kidding?" because I was the guy doing the Ubuntu stuff for the last two years.

-- bjoern-michaelsen 2013-01-07 12:30:57


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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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