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I primarily work with James Page and Chuck Short on the !OpenStack packaging, as well as Thomas Goirand on the Debian side.  I've also worked a little bit on packaging with Robie Basak. And I've worked quite a bit with Chris Arges from the SRU team, as he has reviewed most of the stable releases that I've worked on. I think we've all collaborated really well together and I appreciate all that they've taught me. I primarily work with James Page and Chuck Short on the !OpenStack packaging, as well as Thomas Goirand on the Debian side. I've worked quite a bit with Chris Arges from the SRU team, as he has reviewed most of the stable releases that I've worked on. I think we've all collaborated really well together and I appreciate all that they've taught me.

I, Corey Bryant, apply for upload rights for ubuntu-server-dev packages.

Who I am

Hi! My name is Corey Bryant and I'm a software engineer on the OpenStack Engineering team at Canonical. I'm primarily focused on Juju OpenStack charm development as well as OpenStack packaging for Ubuntu. Prior to joining Canonical, I was a software engineer for the Linux Technology Center at IBM working on KVM. And prior to that I spent several years working on the mainframe at IBM.

My Ubuntu story

Prior to joining Canonical my main interaction with Ubuntu consisted of tinkering and running it as the main operating system on my personal machines. Since joining the OpenStack Engineering team at Canonical in January of 2014, I've gained a quite a bit more experience with Ubuntu, particularly with the Ubuntu release process, the OpenStack release process, packaging of OpenStack and it's dependencies, as well as Juju charm development with the OpenStack charms. I really enjoy working on Ubuntu and I strive to deliver quality work in everything that I do.

My involvement

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

Areas of work

I've primarily been working on OpenStack packaging for new and stable releases. Many of the core OpenStack packages have MREs through which we provide stable releases (via SRUs). I've led several of our stable releases this past year and provided significant contribution to new releases as well. I've participated in various packaging aspects including SRUs, FFEs, syncs, merges, backports, patches, upstreaming fixes, and backporting upstream fixes.

I primarily work with James Page and Chuck Short on the OpenStack packaging, as well as Thomas Goirand on the Debian side. I've worked quite a bit with Chris Arges from the SRU team, as he has reviewed most of the stable releases that I've worked on. I think we've all collaborated really well together and I appreciate all that they've taught me.

Things I could do better

In general I'm the kind of person who is always trying to improve. While I've gained quite a bit of experience thus far, I know that I still have a lot to learn. I expect that Ubuntu development will always be a learning experience, and I enjoy that aspect. One core thing that I can improve on is my work efficiency. Sometimes attention to detail can slow me down, but I think that's fine if I can improve the efficiency of my workflows through experience, automation, and various tooling efficiencies (sbuild caching comes to mind). Another area I need to improve on is bug traging for ubuntu-server-dev packages.

Plans for the future

General

One of the areas that we're looking to improve the OpenStack packaging is by making it easier for others to contribute. Part of our plan for this cycle is to move the packaging branches to Launchpad git repositories.

From an individual aspect, I'm planning to improve my packaging skills and upstream OpenStack knowledge. I'm also planning to participate more in other areas such as bug traging.

What I like least in Ubuntu

I'd like to make it easier for the community to contribute to our packages and I think the move we're making with putting our packages in git repositories is a step in the right direction.


Comments

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== <SPONSORS NAME> ==
=== General feedback ===
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=== Specific Experiences of working together ===
''Please add good examples of your work together, but also cases that could have handled better.''
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## http://ubuntu-dev.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/ubuntu-sponsorships.cgi?
=== Areas of Improvement ===


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