I, Gediminas Paulauskas, apply for upload rights for Zope packages<<GediminasPaulauskas/Packages>>.

Who I am

I am a 29 year old software engineer from Lithuania.

I work at a small company Programmers of Vilnius that uses Python and Zope 3 to develop web applications.

My job since last year is to maintain, release and package SchoolTool for Ubuntu.

My Ubuntu story

I started using Linux back in 1998 while still at school, when we were compiling 2.0.38 kernel and waiting for Debian Potato... I have tried Mandriva or SuSE but always came back to Debian, and switched to Ubuntu when I got my own computer after a few years working on Windows or OS X. In 2007 I went to work for POV that uses Ubuntu on all desktops and servers.

My involvement

I am packaging and maintaining around 150 packages in the SchoolTool PPA for all supported Ubuntu releases. I was working on getting them into Lucid through REVU but was late, so only 15 packages were added to universe. I have been filing bugs for packages already in Ubuntu and got some of them fixed.

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

The sheer size of the SchoolTool PPA makes me proud. SchoolTool is running in several schools so I know my work is production ready.

The SchoolTool Project pages on Launchpad are maintained by me, as well as all the releases in them. I also administer the schooltool.org server. The list of bugs assigned to me has more examples what I've been working on.

Areas of work

DanielHolbach has helped me to get some Zope packages uploaded, other people that advocated my packages in REVU were JonathanCarter, AlessioTreglia, and MatthiasKlose. I started filing needs-packaging bugs and uploading to REVU shortly before Lucid FeatureFreeze and initially did not get any reviewers, but after packages started being uploaded I did not have enough of them ready, so not much was done. Then Canonical ISD hackers have uploaded a few incompatible packages and I was trying to get them usable for SchoolTool as well, but that was not done in time for Lucid release. However we agreed with AnthonyLenton that it would be better that in the future I maintain the Zope packages.

Things I could do better

I often do not communicate enough and people do not know what I am working on. Should send updates more often and reply to emails faster.

Plans for the future

General

My goal is to become the maintainer of Zope and SchoolTool in Ubuntu, this is part of my job at the company. I will coordinate with Debian Zope Team; I am a member of that team, but not a Debian Developer. If needed, will work on Zope issues upstream, I have signed the Zope Contributor Agreement; so far I have only followed the zope-dev mailing list. I will help solve bugs in other Python packages when they are important for SchoolTool and maybe I had to solve similar issues already.

What I like least in Ubuntu

I am a happy Ubuntu user for many years. The worst is PulseAudio problems that I still encounter sometimes, but this is a known problem that is being solved.

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