ChrisWayne

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Chris Wayne

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About Me

  • Used Ubuntu since Gutsy
  • Work as QA Engineer in Canonical
  • Graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern University in 2011

Summary of Contributions to Ubuntu

  • 2+ years of performing QA on systems pre-installed with Ubuntu (Dell, Lenovo)
  • Reaching out to community developers to help with getting apps in Software Center
  • Providing support to newer users (reddit, irc)

Full Contributions

My main contributions have come in the form of Quality Assurance and Hardware Enablement on pre-installed platforms, as well as aiding in the Certification team. Through this, we have shipped millions of Dell and Lenovo systems installed with Ubuntu all over the world.

  • These effors include:
    • Testing pre-installed versions of Ubuntu
    • Logging bugs
    • Testing fixes from developers
    • Helping ODMs to improve BIOS performance
    • Running checkbox on systems
    • Writing automated test cases for checkbox
    • Adding relevant manual cases into checkbox

I have been an advocate of Ubuntu for several years now. This includes talking to people over IRC and helping them with Ubuntu related questions (often even in unrelated places, such as #webos). I get users in touch with the right people within Canonical if they need help (e.g someone looking for help with JuJu, sent them to Jorge). I also participate on AskUbuntu, and try to answer technical support questions on Reddit. I have also reached out to several developers in trying to get their software into the Software Center (especially lenses/scopes).

I always use Ubuntu+1 so that I can log bugs as they find them, and was an early adopter of Unity, having logged several bugs for Unity in 10.10.

I have also begun working on merging some patches into Xpresser, a tool that is used to write automated tests for GUI's.

I've also packaged several different projects, including xpresser and the google plus python api, which can be found in my PPA's

Future Plans

  • Learn more programming skills to be able to submit patches
  • Continue logging bugs
  • Continue to QA pre-installed systems

  • Become more directly involved in the Community (perhaps re-start a Boston Area LoCo?)

Testimonials

  • invalidopcode: Chris Wayne is an active member of the #webos community and does a great job of supporting Ubuntu within the community