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== DanielHahler ==
=== General feedback ===
I have sponsored a lot of uploads for Felix, mostly for virtualbox-ose. He did great work throughout and I was often surprised to find an upload from him waiting for sponsorship when triaging bugs.
As a KDE user I am very happy that he joined the Kubuntu ninjas!

I remember pushing him to become a MOTU months ago already, and I am happy that he finally hands in his application, which I strongly support.

== ScottKitterman ==
=== General feedback ===
I'm not sure how many packages I've sponsored, but it was quite a number. IIRC they've always been first rate. This application is overdue.

=== Specific Experiences of working together ===
There have been multiple times where I've asked Felix to look into problems and he's always been glad to pitch in and help out. Although not only a packaging issue, I recall in Lucid we were having problems with display control in KDE and he studied the problem in detail and came up with patches to fix long standing problems, packaged them, and also got the changes accepted upstream. In Universe, I've worked with him on fixing some FTBFS, which is definitely needed and his changes were always first rate and ready to go.

=== Areas of Improvement ===
I can't really think of any. I'd like to see him do more and have no hesitations about him having upload rights.

I, Felix Geyer, apply for MOTU.

Name

Felix Geyer

Launchpad Page

https://launchpad.net/~debfx

Wiki Page

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FelixGeyer

Who I am

I'm 22 years old computer science student from Karlsruhe, Germany.

My Ubuntu story

My involvement

I've been using Linux since 2006 starting with Fedora Core. Then around a year later I switched to Ubuntu Feisty.
After having packaged new upstream versions of several applications for a few friends and myself, I started contributing to Ubuntu in 2009.
In May 2010 I have become a (K)Ubuntu member.

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

Areas of work

Things I could do better

I tend to be bit lazy when it comes to updating the debian/copyright file for new upstream versions.

Plans for the future

General

Keep contributing like I'm doing now and try to help new packagers (e.g. by working on the sponsorship queue and being more active in #ubuntu-motu).
I'm also planning to do more packaging work in Debian. Right now I'm working on pushing my wormux package changes to Debian and then keep co-maintaing it in Debian.

What I like least in Ubuntu

Many bugs that are ignored for a long time. I think we should encourage users more to report bugs directly upstream as we often just don't have the resources to triage and forward the bug reports.

Comments

If you'd like to comment, but are not the applicant or a sponsor, do it here. Don't forget to sign with @SIG@.

Endorsements

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

JonathanRiddell

General feedback

Felix is a top rate packager, he needed no helping hand or pointing to tutorials but managed to dive right in packaging fiddly software like the Firefox KDE integration which involved working with upstream who are not set up to work with downstreams and doing coding. He should be a MOTU for sure.

DanielHahler

General feedback

I have sponsored a lot of uploads for Felix, mostly for virtualbox-ose. He did great work throughout and I was often surprised to find an upload from him waiting for sponsorship when triaging bugs. As a KDE user I am very happy that he joined the Kubuntu ninjas!

I remember pushing him to become a MOTU months ago already, and I am happy that he finally hands in his application, which I strongly support.

ScottKitterman

General feedback

I'm not sure how many packages I've sponsored, but it was quite a number. IIRC they've always been first rate. This application is overdue.

Specific Experiences of working together

There have been multiple times where I've asked Felix to look into problems and he's always been glad to pitch in and help out. Although not only a packaging issue, I recall in Lucid we were having problems with display control in KDE and he studied the problem in detail and came up with patches to fix long standing problems, packaged them, and also got the changes accepted upstream. In Universe, I've worked with him on fixing some FTBFS, which is definitely needed and his changes were always first rate and ready to go.

Areas of Improvement

I can't really think of any. I'd like to see him do more and have no hesitations about him having upload rights.

TEMPLATE

== <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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