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><>|| '''I, Jeremy Bicha, apply for ''[[MOTU]]'' membership.''' || '''Name''' || Jeremy Bicha || || '''Launchpad Page''' || [[https://launchpad.net/~jbicha]] || || '''Wiki Page''' || [[JeremyBicha]] || = Who I am = I'm a US Navy veteran and currently work at the [[http://www.open-it-lab.com/|Open IT Lab]] in South Carolina introducing people to open source technologies. I taught myself Ubuntu and am happy that I've found ways to make Ubuntu better for millions of users. I spend too much time with Ubuntu and need to get some other hobbies. :-) I don't consider myself a strong programmer, but I believe I do pretty well with packaging. I do a fair amount of patching too. = My Ubuntu story = I got involved with Desktop development near the end of the Natty cycle with the [[https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3/+packages?field.series_filter=precise|GNOME 3 PPA]]. It was a great opportunity as there was a bunch of work that needed to be done. The review process felt easier as it was just a PPA. I got more experience with submitting merge proposals (MPs) and working on a variety of packages. As Oneiric opened for GNOME 3, I started submitting my work for merging directly into the main archive and officially joined the Desktop Team later that summer. Before the GNOME 3 PPA, I had done a few MPs but I had had difficulty finding stuff to package that was within my abilities. My first MP was just before Karmic was released to get Moodle to work for Edubuntu. I got involved with ubuntu-docs about the same way as there was a critical need for help in getting the user documentation into shape near the end of the Natty cycle. It had been synced from a still-incomplete snapshot of the GNOME docs which described GNOME Shell, not Unity. == My involvement == == Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of == [[https://launchpad.net/~jbicha/+uploaded-packages]] * Since last summer, I've joined the [[https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-gnome/|Debian GNOME team]] and become a Debian Maintainer. I'm also a GNOME Foundation [[http://www.gnome.org/foundation/membership/|member]]. * I converted gufw to PyGObject. * I've helped keep all of GNOME 3 up to date in Ubuntu. == Areas of work == Mostly GNOME (& ubuntu-docs), but I am interested in assorted universe stuff too == Why I Want to Join MOTU == I am interested in a broader range of packages than are in the ubuntu-desktop and desktop-extra sets. There are quite a few GNOME-related apps that aren't in those sets as they are unofficial (one example is gcompris which I've kept up-to-date for Edubuntu the past year). I needed to get help from MOTUs with the tracker 0.14 and clutter 1.10 transitions last cycle. (I also helped with the texlive 2011 transition in quantal, but that's core-dev so never mind.) Sponsorship works but eventually, it becomes an extra hassle for the sponsoree and the sponsors. == Things I could do better == Micah has to remind me too often to use the -v flag when I merge from Debian. = Plans for the future = == General == I'm helping lead up the proposed Ubuntu GNOME flavor which is a goal for 12.10. == What I like least in Ubuntu == Ubuntu's relationship with GNOME is still not built on mutual trust and respect. We badly need a better way to track hardware regressions and hopefully users in the near feature will be able to check for these regressions before upgrading. It is difficult for a new contributor to get started contributing. I think this has improved quite a bit with harvest, the Ubuntu Packaging Guide, and Patch Pilots. At the Open IT Lab, we're working on a roadmap of workshops that can help potential contributors learn how to get involved. I wish Canonical had a stronger PR team. For instance, I'd like to see more official press engagement during and immediately after UDS to clarify what was discussed since UDS is critical to how Canonical & the community prepare the next version of Ubuntu. ---- = 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``@`.'' == Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) == I haven't sponsored any of Jeremy's packages, but I'm familiar with his work. In Edubuntu we use a few of the packages he maintains (like gnome-fallback-session) that I've been keeping a close eye on. His work is high quality, he's willing to help wherever he can and I trust him to do a good job as a MOTU. ---- = Endorsements = ''As a sponsor, just copy the template below, fill it out and add it to this section.'' == Daniel Holbach (dholbach) == === General feedback === I would definitely trust Jeremy Bicha with MOTU upload rights. He has done a great job keeping various parts of the Desktop and the Docs world under control and the uploads I checked were of tip-top quality. === Specific Experiences of working together === * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bognor-regis/0.6.12+git20101007.02c25268-7 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grilo-plugins/0.1.18-3 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sound-theme-freedesktop/0.7.pristine-2 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/babl/0.1.10-1 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gegl/0.2.0-1ubuntu1 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice-protocol/0.10.1-1 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp-xsl/3.0.0-0ubuntu2 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/liferea/1.6.6b-0ubuntu1 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/meta-gnome2/1:2.30+11ubuntu1 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-color-manager/3.2.0-0ubuntu1 ---- == TEMPLATE == {{{ == == === 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 === }}} ---- [[CategoryMOTUApplication]]