I, Krzysztof Klimonda, apply for MOTU

Who I am

As most of use, I've been born in the previous century and I spend most of my days doing freelance development work and studying CS.

My Ubuntu story

First Ubuntu I've installed was 5.04 (or maybe it was 4.10? I can't remember). I've tested various distributions till then, even other operating systems but always ended up with Ubuntu. So I've decided to stay and make it a better piece of software.

My involvement

General

Apart from my work on Transmission I'm focused on a range of various packages in various package sets. Almost all packages I touch are affecting me in some way - I update something when I need it to or fix bugs when I encounter them.

Right now the three packages I'm explicitly focused on are python-django, hamster-applet and shutter.

Other than that I touch random packages when people ask for it on #ubuntu-motu or ubuntu-devel-discuss list.

I've created a gnomemm launchpad group that is going to take some burden off the Ubuntu Desktop team in regards of working on the Gtk+mm stack - we are going to migrate all packaging branches related to the mm stack from ~ubuntu-desktop to this group and work with upstream to keep it in shape.

I'm also part of the pkg-gnome Debian team.

Examples of my work

Syncs

580447 580440 580435 580255 576916 575879 478610 450747 414501 417043 413658 411913 406517 405569 377180 377178 376271 373463 369495

Updates

660787 629609 629495 508225 426335 411891 411662 407898 405569

Merges

580435 375000

FTBFS

663560 663485 664284 662572

Archive janitoring

687353

New packages

672817

Things I could do better

Keep focused, the fact that I have a safe net (a person who have to ack my uploads) make me work too fast and make stupid bugs (in the past my worst offense have been not changing Maintainer field, nowadays it's missing some dep-3 headers like Forwarded)

Plans for the future

General

I'm planning on getting Pyramid framework (which is a merge of repoze.bfg and pylons) into Ubuntu and Debian.

What I like least in Ubuntu

I don't know - I have a feeling that there is too much focus on a sponsorship list as a goal and not a mean to an end. I have had few cases when people were fast to either unsubscribe sponsors from the list without first asking why are they actually subscribed (my fault, I should add a comment why have I subscribed them but then one could at least see that I'm part of ~ubuntu-dev and so my action may have made some sense) or blindly asking for a debdiff to the request for a no-change rebuild.

While I agree that sponsorships are vital to the project and the sponsorship list is important tool, I'd rather see more "humane" approach, especially to new contributors. As long as we have to maintain over 10,000 packages (or is it over 15,000?) we have to make the process more forgiving and more appealing to new maintainers.

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