UbuntuDeveloperApplication

I, Heinrich Schuchardt, apply for Ubuntu Contributing Developer.

Name

Heinrich Schuchardt

Launchpad Page

https://launchpad.net/~xypron

Wiki Page

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HeinrichSchuchardt

I am applying because:

  • am contributing to Ubuntu packages on a regular basis as an employee of Canonical

Who I am

I am working as RISC-V lead engineer in Canonical's foundation team since July 2021. In the U-Boot project I am maintainer of the UEFI implementation.

My Ubuntu story

I have been

  • using Ubuntu since 2010 on workstations, SoCs, and in Docker

  • contributed to Debian packages like flash-kernel, mini-dinstall via patches to Debian since 2016
  • contributed to Ubuntu packaging since I was employed by Canonical last year

My involvement

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

Upstream contributions to

  • U-Boot
  • OpenSBI
  • Linux

The following uploads to my PPAs were sponsored:

Cf. https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/ubuntu-sponsorships.cgi?render=html&sponsor=&sponsor_search=name&sponsoree=Heinrich+Schuchardt&sponsoree_search=name

Areas of work

My main focus is on RISC-V enablement: U-Boot, OpenSBI, UEFI tools, kernel.

Things I could do better

  • adding autopkg tests were missing

Plans for the future

General

My future involvement will include

  • focus on RISC-V enablement
  • package support for main, universe (merging from Debian, fixing bugs)

What I like least in Ubuntu

The difference between upstream and Ubuntu packages is often very big. We should improve on upstreaming.

Bug reports are often not answered or resolved in a timely manner.

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.

Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak

General feedback

I only sponsored one package for Heinrich and I generally had no issues with the upload he prepared. Heinrich is an exceptional engineer and, even though still quite fresh in the Ubuntu world, he is very passionate about Ubuntu and making it shine in the RISC-V ecosystem. I think Heinrich deserves to become an Ubuntu Contributive Developer, preparing on his road towards MOTU and, eventually, Core-Dev.

Specific Experiences of working together

Please add good examples of your work together, but also cases that could have handled better.

As per the sponsorship miner, I only sponsored one 'new' package for Heinrich. It's not a very good package per-se, but only because it's a fork of u-boot: u-boot-nezha. It was forked due to the Nezha board bits not being upstreamable, so that's all good. But Heinrich demonstrated multiple times that, even though not yet too experienced, can just get things done.

Areas of Improvement

I think Heinrich needs to do a bit more around regular distro, not only regarding the RISC-V architecture. He's already going in the right direction though. Also, even though so far this was not an issue, but I feel Heinrich should be a bit more open regarding asking questions related to Ubuntu processes and procedures.

Graham Inggs

General feedback

I've worked with Heinrich for the last 8 months or so. The quality of his work is excellent and he doesn't hesitate to ask questions when procedures are unclear. I think Heinrich is ready be a Ubuntu Contributing Developer right now, so that he can be given per-package upload for the packages he maintains. I hope to see him applying for MOTU and Core Developer in future.

Specific Experiences of working together

I've sponsored four uploads for Heinrich, including a backport to Focal and a sync from Debian.

Areas of Improvement

Heinrich could get more experience with merges and proposed-migrations and +1 maintenance.

Julian Andres Klode

General feedback

I think Heinrich is a very capable developer with a lot of knowledge in boot processes and architecture. He can quickly adapt to new codebases and styles of working. I trust him to fix bugs and implement features in code bases, but he's early in his packaging days and needs more experience there, I think this matches very well with the status of contributing developer.

Specific Experiences of working together

We worked on grub review and a whole bunch of packages he added riscv64 support too that I can't all recall which I sponsored into Ubuntu (and Debian, for some).

Areas of Improvement

Heinrich is still learning packaging skills and tools, but doing so quickly.

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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.''
## Full list of sponsored packages can be generated here:
##  https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/ubuntu-sponsorships.cgi
=== Areas of Improvement ===

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