DeveloperApplication2

I, PhillipSusi, apply for core-dev

Who I am

I am a 36 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 have been a contributing developer for several years now and feel it is finally time to upgrade to core-dev.

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. I have troubleshot and fixed many bugs with a special focus on packages including parted, gparted, dmraid, udisks, and the kernel. I am an upstream maintainer of GNU parted, and have contributed significantly to upstream gparted, and am the debian maintainer of the gparted package. In recent years I have been highly active on askubuntu.

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

Blueprints

Bugs

Boot speed initiative

  • I have revived the old defrag defrag package and fixed it up to work with modern ext4 filesystems

  • Made some improvements to ureadahead that have been getting some positive testing in my ppa

  • Combining ureadahead with e2defrag to optimize the disk for faster reading of the boot time files

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

Plans for the future

Continue fixing all of the things.

General

What I like least in Ubuntu

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

Comments

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Seth Arnold

General Feedback

I've found Phillip Susi to be very helpful over the years, giving good advice on both IRC and AskUbuntu.com. -- seth-arnold 2016-01-09 02:15:45

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