I, Philip Muskovac, apply for kubuntu-dev.

Who I am

I'm a 24 years old student from Stuttgart, Southwest Germany.

My Ubuntu story

My involvement

I've been using Linux since around 2005 starting with Suse an later Debian. In 2007 I then switched to Ubuntu Gutsy.
I started testing the development releases of Ubuntu since mid-2008 and became part of the bugsquad early 2009. I later started doing various packaging tasks and small bug fixes and after switching to Kubuntu end of 2009 I started doing packaging for Kubuntu and have been working on the Kubuntu release packages as a Kubuntu Ninja since mid 2010. I became a Kubuntu Member in January 2011.

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

• Release packaging of KDE since 4.5
• Resurrecting Project Neon together with Rohan and Michal.
• Merging KDE packages from debian.
• Getting upstream copyrights fixed during 4.7 split.

Areas of work

• Packaging new KDE SC releases.
• Co-maintaining Project Neon.
• Managing the KDE SC packaging of the ninjas.

• Full list of my package uploads

Things I could do better

Remember to add proper breaks/replaces when I move files between packages. Do better at reviewing/dropping patches.

Plans for the future

General

• Work close with the debian-qt-kde team.
• Keep providing excellent KDE packaging for Kubuntu.
• Do more universe work and become a MOTU

Ninjas

• Become better at management (being kubuntu-dev would be helpful )

• Write more scripts for kubuntu-dev-tools to make the ninjas life easier.
  • The LP UI is horrible at scaling for PPAs with many packages.

• Bring the Ninjas wiki pages back into shape, esp. the information for new minions is rather outdated looking at our current processes. (The build environment page still mentions the batscript for example)

• Think of something to make our dep-graph usable again, it's an unreadable mess currently.
• Find more minions. With even more package splits on the horizon we'll have plenty of work for not enough ninjas.
• Invent something that auto-generates debug packages for packages with no -dbg packages in the PPA since we have no -dbgsym packages there.

What I like least in Kubuntu

• missing Ubuntu ONE client (couldn't resist :P)

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