Jérémie "Toadstool" Corbier

I am a 20 year-old french guy. I study telecommunications engineering in Brest, France. I am particularly interested in the current deployment of IPv6. I am also network and system administrator of the [http://resel.fr/ ResEl] association. We deal with a 500 machines students network and we provide some services such as 17 TV channels on LAN or @resel.fr Jabber accounts to our members. The whole services are powered by 12 Debian servers.

Linux and me

I have been using GNU/Linux since November 2000. My first experience was with a Debian Potato I installed on my parents' old computer. As I did not have a permanent nor efficient Internet connection at that time I had to wait for Woody release to discover a little further this world.

I use Ubuntu since Warty was released. At that time I was thrilled by this distribution because it was the first to work out of the box on my laptop. I have been an Ubuntu user since then and I have decided to help making Dapper the best Linux distro ever released.

I have organized 4 Ubuntu Install Parties (about 60 attendees each time) in my engineering school.

Contact

• e-mail	jeremie.corbier@resel.enst-bretagne.fr
  Jabber	jcorbier@resel.fr
  IRC	Toadstool on freenode
  Launchpad	[https://launchpad.net/people/jcorbier/ jcorbier]

Ubuntu involvement

Packaging and developments

• I am the Debian maintainer for [http://sourceforge.net/projects/wide-dhcpv6/ wide-dhcpv6], a well-programmed DHCPv6 solution. I got the first version included in Universe thanks to MOTU reviewers. I am working on a better integration of the client in the system (it will certainly be released in Debian wide-dhcpv6 version 20060322-2). I will try to get the latest version included in Dapper.

• I have worked with Debian Lintian Maintainers and asked them to reserve -D and --debian options for Debian derivatives such as Ubuntu. I am now working on a Lintian patch to better include Ubuntu specific checks ([https://launchpad.net/bugs/36505 Malone #36505]). The -D switch will be used to get back to Debian behaviour.

Bug triaging and fixing

I am part of the Ubuntu BugSquad and I do my best to report and triage bugs.

I have fixed a few bugs in main and universe:

• denemo	0.7.4-2ubuntu3	Fix unmet librsvg2-common dependency.	[https://launchpad.net/bugs/32695 Malone #32695]
  proftpd	1.2.10-27ubuntu1	Fix a "/var/run is on a tmpfs" issue.	[https://launchpad.net/bugs/34122 Malone #34122]
  ghemical	1.91-2ubuntu2	Fix build on amd64 (and ia64 if mopac7 could be built on this arch).	[https://launchpad.net/bugs/36421 Malone #36421]
  lprng	3.8.28-4ubuntu1	Fix a "/var/run is on a tmpfs" issue.	[https://launchpad.net/bugs/34409 Malone #34409]
  ebtables	2.0.6-3ubuntu1	Fix a FTBFS on all arch.	[https://launchpad.net/bugs/37426 Malone #37426]
  gnome-sudoku	0.4.0-2ubuntu2	Rebuild against fixed lib and desktop file issue	[https://launchpad.net/bugs/5544 Malone #5544]
  gimp-gap	2.2.0-2ubuntu1	Upstream patch adaptation	[https://launchpad.net/bugs/32900 Malone #32900]

IRC

I spend a lot of time on #ubuntu-fr, #ubuntu-fr-testing, #ubuntu-bugs and #ubuntu-motu helping people as much as I can.

French translations

I am certainly not the most active translator in the French Translation Team but when I am not wandering about Malone I try to translate a few packages.

Plans

I would like to:

• Become a MOTU to help maintaining Universe and stop bothering MOTUs when I have got a tiny patch.
• Package a few missing applications.
• Help new packagers on #ubuntu-motu and REVU.
• Get a little more involved in the French Translation Team.
• Spread Ubuntu everywhere.

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