I, ChrisCoulson, apply for MOTU

Who I am

I am a 26 year old electronics design engineer and father-to-be from the West Midlands, UK. I currently work with commercial vehicles in a team responsible for developing electronics for braking systems on large vehicles. I have also worked in automotive (on electric power-assisted steering systems) and in aerospace (gas turbine controls). I have a BEng(Hons) in Electronics Engineering.

My Ubuntu story

I started using Ubuntu from Breezy. However, I didn't start out contributing with Ubuntu until around the time of Gutsy, when I started out with some bug triaging. I then became more active towards the end of Hardy, and was eventually approved as a member of ubuntu-bugcontrol (Sept 2008). My intention back then was always to get more involved with development, and I gradually started helping out with some packaging tasks, merges and preparing bug fixes.

My involvement

I am mostly focused on the desktop team now. Most of my work consists of packaging new upstream versions and merges. However, I do sometimes also write patches and get involved with debugging things which don't work properly.

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

Fast User Switch Applet and gnome-session changes in Jaunty

I did some work on the fast-user-switch-applet in Jaunty. I implemented initial support for PolicyKit. After tedg did some further work, I made some changes to resolve some more bugs, and also integrate it with gnome-session so that shutting down from the FUSA takes advantage of the session saving features in gnome-session. This also involved writing a patch for gnome-session, to expose this functionality over DBus.

Links

https://launchpad.net/bugs/350297 https://launchpad.net/bugs/357455 https://launchpad.net/bugs/357455

Areas of work

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Things I could do better

Plans for the future

General

What I like least in Ubuntu

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