GaryCoady

Revision 4 as of 2006-04-26 13:49:17

Clear message

About me

My [https://launchpad.net/people/gary-lyranthe Launchpad page]. My email address is [gary@lyranthe.org].

I'm 28 years old, living in Ireland. I first tried out Debian GNU/Linux in early 1998, using the Bo release, then continued to use successive versions all the way up to now. Other systems were avoided at all costs - even Oracle got the Debian treatment: http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-01-10-013-20-PS-HL-RH-0001

A number of Debian-derived distros appeared now and again, Stormix is one that comes best to mind (I got a t-shirt at Linux Expo 2000). But none really could beat Debian, except for a certain amount of GUI glitter which would inevitably atrophy over time.

I've been a systems administrator with Debian GNU/Linux for multi-user servers, and web/mail/Samba servers for years. There's been a period doing web application development (JavaScript, Oracle, PHP). I spent a year as a technical support engineer; this included finding why servers crashed, why large-scale NFS installations were having performance difficulties, and basic bug management. Recently, my job has mainly entailed C feature design and development.

I have worked on some fixes and small feature development for libxml2, some GNOME/Debian integration for OO.org, and a small change in Mozilla MailNews.

I have also [http://www.lyranthe.org/diary/archives/2005/04/ipv6_on_ubuntu_1.html modified aiccu packaging], a package mainly used to allow systems to connect to the SixXS set of IPv6 networks. These modifications added debconf support, bug fixes, and Ubuntu-style init scripts.

Ubuntu

Everybody heard the rumours of the creation of another distribution. Key Debian developers were being headhunted, or so the story went. And then Ubuntu appeared. I tried it out in 2004 after their first release, and as a desktop distribution it was great! Just the right amount of work to make that particular use case quite slick. So that went onto my desktop in work. Debian still on any servers though.

It was after the Xorg migration settled down that I decided to start running unstable versions of Ubuntu, and I started to keep an eye on Ubuntu Forums. I sent a few posts, helped a few people, but didn't pay too much attention to it. I filed a bug or two, like https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gtk2-engines/+bug/14556

Then in March 2006, I saw a report that the number of bugs in Ubuntu was going up by ~100 per week. I'd been thinking for a long long time that I should help out in the community, and this seemed like a great place to get started.

I joined #ubuntu-bugs, and became a member of BugSquad. Since then, I've mainly worked with other Ubuntu developers (mainly dholbach and seb128) to fix bugs, and also worked with upstream. I try to find reproducible bugs and get them fixed - valgrind, gdb and code inspection being the usual weapons. I also help with bug triage.

Reported Bugs

[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gtk2-engines/+bug/14556]

[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gdb/+bug/26041]

[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/31408]

[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/initscripts/+bug/32455]

[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/scim/+bug/35852]

[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/36177]

[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/38633]

[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/scim/+bug/39026]

[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/eric/+bug/39280]

[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/brltty/+bug/40245]

[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/40974]

[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ethereal/+bug/40987]

[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/41284]

Supplied Patches

[http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8222]

[https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/32455]

[https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/35729]

[https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31675]

[https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/34517]

[https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/38633]

[https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/5326]

[https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/39002]

[https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/39206]

[https://launchpad.net/bugs/40174]

[https://launchpad.net/bugs/38584]

[https://launchpad.net/bugs/17984]