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I, Dmitry Shachnev, apply for upload rights for these packages:

  • retext

  • unity-mail


Name

Dmitry Shachnev

Launchpad Page

https://launchpad.net/~mitya57

Wiki Page

DmitryShachnev

Who I am

I'm author of ReText editor, and some smaller projects and libraries. In real life, I'm student at Mathematics department of Moscow State University.

My Ubuntu story

I've been using Ubuntu since version 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon), and I started contributing last summer (retext changelog dates back to Mon, 13 Jun 2011).

My involvement

I'm mostly involved with maintaining my apps and their dependency stack. I've also been contributing to Python-related packages and modules.

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

I'm the primary maintainer of these packages (I do most of the maintenance work in Debian):

  • retext

  • python-markdown

  • python-gdata

  • unity-mail

  • mathjax

Incomplete list of (other) source packages I've contributed to: gnome-icon-theme, googlecl, indicator-session, lightdm, light-themes, nautilus, python-docutils, python-gnupg, sphinx, ubuntu-packaging-guide.

Areas of work

I am:

  • maintaining my packages;
  • translating packages (I'm member of UbuntuRussianTranslators team);

  • fixing bugs in other packages;
  • helping with the Ubuntu packaging guide;
  • participating in the IRC.

Some statistics (more links can be found at DmitryShachnev page):

I'm also Debian Maintainer and member of DPMT, PAPT and JavaScript teams.

Things I could do better

I mostly write in Python and C++, so I need to improve my skills in other languages (C and Perl in the first place). My English can also be a bit improved Smile :)

Plans for the future

I am planning to become a MOTU member eventually. I've started with these two packages because these two are only ones that I maintain in Ubuntu (not in Debian). I'm also planning to join the Bug Control team.

For quantal+1, I plan to get three new packages into Ubuntu: pymarkups, python-roman and python-secretstorage.

What I like least in Ubuntu

I don't like when maintainers make their packages derive from Debian or upstream without any good reason. Sometimes, there even are two different and incompatible packaging versions in Debian and Ubuntu. A good example is chromium-browser package.

Speaking about my packages, one I like least is python-gdata because it has lots of dead and unmaintained code, and upstream is quite unfriendly.

Comments

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Endorsements

As a sponsor, just copy the template below, fill it out and add it to this section.

Daniel Holbach (dholbach)

General feedback

Dmitry has done a great job taking care of the two packages and he should totally have upload rights for them.

Specific Experiences of working together

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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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