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Hi,

My name is James Westby, and I am a MOTU hopeful.

I am using this page to document my achievements so far.

I have recently started getting involved in Ubuntu development, after being involved in Debian for a couple of years.

Ubuntu Contributions

https://launchpad.net/~james-w

• Merges

  • 915resolution 0.5.3-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/915resolution/+bug/159328

  • balsa 2.3.20-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/balsa/+bug/163261

• Syncs

  • accerciser 1.0.1-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accerciser/+bug/163580

  • alleyoop 0.9.3-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alleyoop/+bug/163613

  • binutils-avr 2.18-3 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils-avr/+bug/192592

  • bld 0.3.2-3.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bld/+bug/192687

  • 2vcard 0.5-2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/2vcard/+bug/190046

• New Versions
  • None yet.
• New packages
  • None yet.
• Package fixes

  • [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bidentd/+bug/192437 bidentd shouldn't depend on update-inetd]

  • [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bitlbee/+bug/192525 bitlbee shouldn't depend on update-inetd]

• Forwarding bugs and patches to Debian

  • See [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?submitter=jw%2Bdebian%40jameswestby.net&tag=ubuntu-patch,origin-ubuntu;users=ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com the BTS]

  • Working my way through http://patches.ubuntu.com/, I am currently approaching the end of "b".

• Knowledge sharing
  • Restarted ["MOTU/School"] project.

  • Co-hosted a session during UbuntuDeveloperWeek

• Documentation

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/SharedLibraries (still a work in progress)

Debian contributions

http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=jw%2Bdebian%40jameswestby.net&comaint=yes

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Alists.debian.org+jw%2Bdebian%40jameswestby.net

Contributions to debian-mentors:

• Reviews of packages before sponsors take them.

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/08/msg00120.html furl]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/07/msg00352.html dcfldd]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00253.html lisaac] and [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00405.html lisaac]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00177.html audacious]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00176.html museek+]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00178.html jlha-utils]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00211.html libinklevel]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00251.html anaconda]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00256.html bastet]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00313.html haskell-uulib]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00312.html frown]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00404.html hunspell-uz]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00419.html cunit]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00428.html euler]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00438.html filezilla3]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00450.html swish++]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00449.html rssreader.app]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00495.html malaga, suomi-malaga, libvoikko, tmispell-voikko, oo2-voikko]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00539.html qpopper]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00551.html doc-debian-uk]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00565.html inotail]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00583.html eqonomize]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00623.html webcam-server]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00626.html libapp-info-perl]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00662.html gtksee]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00666.html blacs-pvm]

  • [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00667.html libmtp]

• Helping maintainers solve packaging problems.

  • new python policy and an unusual build system: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00175.html

  • Build-Depends/Build-Depends-Indep: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/07/msg00393.html

Transitions:

• Mass rebuild and bug-filing of all packages that Build-Depends on automake (about 63), to see if they required the dependency, and could be updated to a more recent automake if they did.

• gnutls11->gnutls13 rebuilt all packages to make sure they worked with the new version.

  • [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=370424 libggz]

  • [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=335771 xmlsec1]

  • [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=335765 lynx]

  • [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=335759 lock-keys-applet]

  • [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=335750 echoping]

  • [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=335764 gaim]

  • [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=335752 crywrap] - required a code change as well.

RC bug fixing

• [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=368420 ftpd-ssl]

  • change location of SSL certificate file.

• [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=382958 gnopernicus]

  • FTBFS due to broken configure.in.

• [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381354 commons-httpclient]

  • Didn't include necessary files due to build-system breakage. (And the reason I prefer not to use cdbs).

• [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356255 somaplayer]

  • Put the same files in two binary packages that didn't conflict. (Actual sponsored NMU by Myon)