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I, Brian Murray, apply for core-dev.

Who I am

I work for Canonical on the Ubuntu Engineering Foundations team as the Defect Analyst after having been a QA Engineer on the Ubuntu QA Team. I like hiking, rock tumbling, post offices and laffy taffy jokes.

My Ubuntu story

I have been using Ubuntu since 2005 and involved in the Ubuntu community since December 2006. Initially my involvement started with triaging bug reports. However, as I reviewed more and more bug reports I wanted more automated ways of dealing with them. As such I have been involved in the python-launchpadbugs project (an API for Launchpad based on scraping web pages), the Launchpad greasemonkey scripts project, python-launchpadlib-toolkit and arsenal and I have actually done some Launchpad development. As I have been looking at this volume of bug reports I have also found a lot of bugs with patches and have worked to get those patches forwarded upstream and included into Ubuntu. I have recently been focusing on the reducing the influx of automatic bug reports that we receive by preventing the reporting of bug due to hardware failures. Additionally, I have created a duplicate signature for apport package installation failures that will allow the apport retracer to automatically mark these as duplicates. I have also been working on making bug reports more informative when they come up by writing and imporving apport package hooks for a wide variety of packages.

My involvement

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

I have recently been focusing on the reducing the influx of automatic bug reports that we receive by preventing the reporting of bug due to hardware failures. Additionally, I have created a duplicate signature for apport package installation failures that will allow the apport retracer to automatically mark these as duplicates. I have also been working on making bug reports more informative when they come up by writing and imporving apport package hooks for a wide variety of packages. I believe that reducing the quantity of unnecessary bugs being reported and improving the quality of the bugs we get are vital to ensuring that we can make progress identifying important bugs and improving Ubuntu.

Areas of work

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Things I could do better

Plans for the future

General

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