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I, Ilya Barygin, apply for MOTU.

Who I am

I'm a physicist from Saint Petersburg, Russia, born in 1982.

My Ubuntu story

My involvement

I learned the basics of packaging when in December 2008 there was an initiative to package Eclipse for Debian/Ubuntu. This eventually got nowhere, but at least I knew what debian/rules and debhelper were.

My first contribution to archive was when I isolated upstream's fix for https://launchpad.net/bugs/364069 (pidgin: ICQ protocol update, March 2009). It quickly got SRU'd, but the folks using hardy-backports got stuck with the old version, so I created a debdiff, which was sponsored by pitti. A couple of months later I merged a new version of g3data (a tool of use for me) from Debian.

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

Full list here: https://launchpad.net/~randomaction/+uploaded-packages

Areas of work

The bulk of my contributions are merges/syncs and FTBFS fixes. This is a scattered, QA-like activity, and this is why I apply for general upload rights. As such, my uploads were sponsored by many developers (21, to be exact). However, my principal sponsors are fabrice_sp and sistpoty. Other than that, there are several packages in universe I especially care about (I use them daily), these include claws-mail{,-extra-plugins} and gnome-commander.

Things I could do better

  • Changelogs. Like mentioning which files were modified.
  • Get more familiar with Python packaging.

Plans for the future

General

I plan to continue in the same vein, as there seems to be no shortage of pending merges and unbuildable packages.

What I like least in Ubuntu

I'm a little jealous when my Arch friends start using new versions of software days after they are being released Smile :) This is a design choice and doesn't need fixing.

Comments

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Endorsements

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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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