I, Mattia Rizzolo, apply for core-dev.

I am applying because:

• I'd like to eliminate delays in getting my work sponsored.
• I'd like to reduce the burden on my sponsors.
• I feel I'm competent enough to not need somebody to review my work most of the time.

Who I am

An Italian guy, currently 26. I work as a freelancer sysadmin for Debian-based systems, plus I'm heavily involved in the Reproducible Builds project as a grantee.

My Ubuntu story

I started having something to do with Ubuntu way back in 2009, mostly giving user support in the Ubuntu Italy forum. I started messing around with packages in 2013, DM in 2014, DD in 2015, MOTU in 2016.

Startin 2014-2015 I slowly drifter my main (technical) contributions toward Debian rather than Ubuntu, but I never stopped uploading stuff from time to time, mostly merging/syncing things that I'm involved with in Debian.

My involvement

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

Prior to being a DD, I meticulously collected all of my uploads in this wiki page.

Anyhow, since I started contributing, it seems I did quite a bunch of uploads to main.

udd=> select count(*) from ubuntu_upload_history where changed_by_name='Mattia Rizzolo' and component='main' ;
 count 
-------
    64
(1 row)

See also

• https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia

• https://launchpad.net/~mapreri/+related-packages

• https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/ubuntu-sponsorships.cgi?render=html&sponsoree=Mattia+Rizzolo&sponsoree_search=name

I also did plenty of SRUs, a couple of recent ones I quickly found:

• https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/smart-notifier/0.28-6~ubuntu20.04.1

• https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pure-ftpd/1.0.46-1ubuntu18.04.1

But I've been doing SRUs every so often since the start, just saying that I'm aware of the procedure.

Also, even though I don't think I ever actively took charge of library transactions in Ubuntu, I consider myself very knowledgeable of the process, and I've been involved in quite many of them over my years in Debian.

Areas of work

Besides the new Backporters team I never worked in any specific area in Ubuntu.
Many of the things I do are mostly aimed at reducing or making the delta of the packages I'm involved with more managable.

Things I could do better

Right now, I consider myself "just fine", however, I'm always open to suggestions on what I could do better!!

Plans for the future

None specifically. Right now I'm interested in the backporters team; I plan to work toward making Ubuntu Backports a first-class citizen for our users.

General

What I like least in Ubuntu

Amusingly enough, looking at my MOTU Application, I find myself sharing the same opinion I had 7 years ago:

I think the are a lot of devs that not forward adequately (as in: not even try) patches to debian and/or upstream. Really, this bothers me a lot.

Today I'd probably add to it:

• I think the SRU team accepts way too many breaking/annoying changes
• during development some things are done way too hastily (current example being the OpenSSL 3 change: half the world is not ready, but it is being discussed very seriously on how to do the transition in Ubuntu NOW).

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.

Gianfranco Costamagna

General feedback

I worked with Mattia for ~10 years, sponsoring packages for him in main and universe, as well as merges and bugfixes. I asked him many, many, many times to apply for CoreDev, his knowledge is higher than mine, I'm just a blind sponsor for him, he doesn't need anything changed because he knows his stuff already too much.

Ubuntu will benefit from him being a coredev, without needing of additional sponsor for his high quality work.

I don't think there is anything to say about areas of improvement, neither in the working together section, because he helped me in transitions, seeds, syncs, merges, and lots of other areas.

GianfrancoCostamagna

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== <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 ===

@``SIG@

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