I, Łukasz Zemczak, apply for MOTU.

Who I am

I am a software engineer and a long time GNU/Linux user. I am an operating system enthusiast, interested in OS development, programming and embedded systems. I started out with Red Hat and Slackware in my childhood days, later on getting sucked into BeOS and its open-source rewrite Haiku - both as an user and developer (I even successfully completed Google Summer of Code as a Haiku student). I have worked on the development of the niche' Lintrack GNU/Linux distribution for around 2 years. During the same time I have worked on a few custom Linux distributions used for embedded systems and network devices from the Miure and ASN products (Miure Duo, ASN RadioOS) - also working on GNU/Linux kernel and driver development for those platforms. Since 2012 onward I am also involved in the release process of many Ubuntu upstream flagship projects, e.g. Unity, HUD, Compiz. Member of the Canonical Ubuntu Engineering Landing Team, responsible for scheduling and preparing releases for many desktop and touch related projects. My programming languages of choice are C, C++ and Python.

My Ubuntu story

I started out as an Ubuntu user in the year 2006 - I don't know the exact date, but that's when I remember using Xubuntu and contributing to the then-used XArchiver file archiver. Since then Ubuntu became my primary operating system and I'm using it daily since then.

My involvement

Besides my contributions to some smaller Ubuntu/Xubuntu projects, after joining Canonical in 2011 I have worked on many packaging related tasks for internal projects. Later I was helping out with preparing new releases of components from the Unity stack (Unity, Nux, Compiz, BAMF etc.) into the archive. Currently maintaining package releases from the CI Train and the now deprecated cu2d (daily-release infrastructure). I am acting as a debian packaging helper for those projects, reviewing packaging changes, helping out in package maintenance.

I am the current maintainer of the appmenu-qt and appmenu-qt5 projects used in Ubuntu. I am currently also helping out in the maintenance of the ubuntu-keyboard package. I also did some bug-fixes for the Compiz, Unity and Unity-2D projects back in the past.

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

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Notable bugs I have been working on

Unity/Compiz:

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/839628

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz-shift-plugin/+bug/954079

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/880449

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/5.0/+bug/949448

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/6.0/+bug/1060195

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1071298

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz/+bug/1078244

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1081871

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz/+bug/1141079

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/863230

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/971097

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz/+bug/770283

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/987156

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1097189

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1089482

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1077131

Appmenu-qt:

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qtbase-opensource-src/+bug/1157213

Others:

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-system-settings/+bug/1221179

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-system-settings/+bug/1223798

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-keyboard/+bug/1251285

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-terminal-app/+bug/1257791

Blueprints

• Blueprint of QPA appmenu support for Qt5

Package maintenance

I'm the current main package maintainer of the following projects:

• zmqpp

• lucene++

• python-evdev

• appmenu-qt

• appmenu-qt5

Sponsored packages

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Areas of work

• Package maintenance, review and preparation
• C/C++ generic GNU/Linux programming - both for bug-fixing and feature implementation

Things I could do better

Plans for the future

General

What I like least in Ubuntu

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