I, Martin Pitt, apply for upload rights for package(s) cockpit{,-machines,-podman}.

I am applying because:

• I'd like to eliminate delays in getting my work sponsored. I initially tried sponsoring in https://launchpad.net/bugs/2099668 but this apparently isn't working so well. Cockpit releases every two weeks, and our users expect and appreciate the latest versions in backports.

Who I am

I have been an upstream maintainer of Cockpit since 2017, as full-time Red Hat employee. I also maintain the Debian package.

My Ubuntu story

I have been a Canonical employee between 2004 and 2016, and been a Ubuntu core dev until a few weeks ago. My latter membership expired, and I finally let it as I haven't actually uploaded anything to Ubuntu main in years -- I still had a lot of leftover privileges (core-dev, archive admin, etc.) which today are just unused by me, and thus an unnecessary risk.

However, I didn't realize then that I would also lose upload rights for Cockpit. I don't often need to upload it to the development series other than requesting the occasional manual sync, but I do upload backports every two weeks after the upstream release and Debian upload. I would like to be able to upload backports again as by now Cockpit users on Ubuntu are expecting them. Recent examples are #21675 or #21483

My involvement

Examples of my work

On https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cockpit/+changelog you can see that I uploaded a lot of Ubuntu backports over the years.

Areas of work

I am subscribed to Ubuntu bug reports and groom them.

However, we actually receive most bug reports directly upstream, and ironically (as this is primarily a Fedora/RHEL project) many or even most of them come from Ubuntu users. Ubuntu is a first-class citizen in our CI and support, and all our upstream PRs are being tested there -- currently 22.04 LTS, 24.04 LTS, and 24.10 as latest stable.

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@.

Endorsements

As a sponsor, just copy the template below, fill it out and add it to this section.

KenVanDine

Oh hey, I know this dude! Martin taught me much of what I know about debian packaging. Having had a tremendous amount of experience over the years, proven reliable and responsible, I am happy to provide my endorsement!

Simon Quigley

I'm sure Martin has sponsored more uploads for me than I have for him. This is an obvious "no-brainer." He obviously has every single necessary technical skill we would be looking for a PPU uploader to possess, ten times over. While our time didn't intersect much (I joined Ubuntu in 2016), this has my absolute support.

-- tsimonq2 2025-03-16 14:27:07

Sebastien Bacher

Martin has been a pillar of Ubuntu for over a decade and showed he can be trusted with about anything in the archive. He has also been working upstream on cockpit for 8 years and doing the Debian and Ubuntu packaging during that period. A strong +1 for me to this PPU without any doubt.

TEMPLATE

== <SPONSORS NAME> ==
=== 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.''
## Full list of sponsored packages can be generated here:
##  https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/ubuntu-sponsorships.cgi
=== Areas of Improvement ===