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I, PhillipSusi, apply for MOTU

Who I am

I am a 32 year old software developer from Orlando, Florida. I taught myself to program C and C++ in high school, and got a BA in CS from Rollins College in 2003. Since then I have been working at a small startup company making medical devices, and contributing to Ubuntu and other open source projects. For a little while after college I contributed some code to the ReactOS open source NT clone project, which mostly involved the kernel and low level libraries. I also got married last year.

My Ubuntu story

I discovered Ubuntu in 2005. I had previous experience with Slackware back in 1996 or so, Debian for a while in college, and RedHat for a very short while in college. I liked Ubuntu because most things just worked, right out of the box, and the things that didn't, I was able to fix.

My involvement

Outside of working on triaging and fixing bugs, I have been very active on the forums helping people, and written a few wiki entries, including FakeRaidHowto, and Lvm.

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

Blueprints:

Bugs:

Areas of work

The first big problem I ran into with Ubuntu was the new system I had just built used a fakeraid. I eventually discovered the dmraid package and worked to integrate it into Ubuntu and fix bugs. I have also worked on grub, parted, gparted, lvm, and the kernel. I think it was back in 2008 I noticed that the ancient defrag package had been dropped by Debian and therefore, Ubuntu, as it had been unmaintained for years and suffered from bit rot. I rescued the source code and created a project on launchpad to revive it. I hope to get it put back into the universe as I become a motu. I have been working lately on some improvements to ureadahead and coordinating it with the defrag package to improve boot times on rotational hard disks.

Things I could do better

I still need to learn to perform an initial debianization of a package.

Plans for the future

I hope to continue fixing bugs as I find them, as well as get the defrag package back into the archive, and make improvements to boot times and pretty much whatever else I see needs improvement.

General

What I like least in Ubuntu

Please describe what you like least in Ubuntu and what thoughts do you have about fixing it.


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