Ubuntu Wiki

Bug triager, occassional en_GB translator, .desktop file meddler, wikidoc editor, DocBook wrangler and Ubuntu user (of course). Interests in PyGTK development, documentation and usability. I'm currently studying Physics (with Astrophysics) at the University of Manchester, UK.

Links

• [https://launchpad.net/people/philbull Launchpad]

• [http://www.livejournal.com/users/philbull LiveJournal]

• [http://www.flickr.com/photos/philbull/ Flickr]

• [http://www.last.fm/user/pjbull/ Last.fm]

Documentation

I'm an active member of the Doc Team, and spend most of my Ubuntu-time committing patches, closing bugs and helping-out mentoring students.

Bugs

I'm a member of the bugsquad, although unfortunately I haven't been very active recently.

• [https://launchpad.net/people/philbull/+subscribedbugs?field.searchtext=&search=Search+bugs+Phil+Bull+is+Cc%27d+to&orderby=-priority%2C-severity&field.status%3Alist=Unconfirmed&field.status%3Alist=Needs+Info&field.status%3Alist=Rejected&field.status%3Alist=Confirmed&field.status%3Alist=In+Progress&field.status%3Alist=Fix+Committed&field.status%3Alist=Fix+Released&assignee_option=any&field.assignee=&field.owner=&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch.used= Bugs I'm subscribed to].

• [https://launchpad.net/people/philbull/+reportedbugs?field.searchtext=&search=Search+bugs+reported+by+Phil+Bull&orderby=-priority%2C-severity&field.status%3Alist=Unconfirmed&field.status%3Alist=Needs+Info&field.status%3Alist=Rejected&field.status%3Alist=Confirmed&field.status%3Alist=In+Progress&field.status%3Alist=Fix+Committed&field.status%3Alist=Fix+Released&assignee_option=any&field.assignee=&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch.used= Bugs I've reported.]

Current Projects

• Working on the system documentation and TopicBasedHelp

• A mentor in the [:DocumentationTeam/Mentoring:DocuMENTORS] programme

• Playing with the [http://philbull.livejournal.com/43421.html Welcome Centre] concept

• Trying to get some material into [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PythonRecipes Python Recipes]

Past Projects

• MOTU Science .desktop files

  • [http://tauware.de/pipermail/ubuntu-science/2006-March/000101.html ubuntu-science Completion announcement]

  • [https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/2006-March/000875.html ubuntu-art request for icons]

  • [http://philbull.googlepages.com/ubuntuscience Project files and icons]

• Switching from Windows guide

  • ["SFWGuide"]

Testing

Some pages I'm using to test new ideas for the Help wiki:

• FullSearch([[Include(Philbull/Test/Gutsy)

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