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I, Ross Gammon, apply for Contributing Developer.
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Who I am
I am Test Team Lead for the Ubuntu Studio flavour, a member of the Ubuntu Studio Development Team, and the Ubuntu Bug Squad. I am also a Debian Maintainer, maintaining a few packages on my own, and within the Debian GIS, Debian Multimedia, and Debian Javascript Teams.
My Ubuntu story
After becoming interested in Linux in 2010, and trying out Sabayon, Debian and Fedora, I eventually settled with Ubuntu on my desktop machine. In 2013 I started to look at how I could contribute back. I joined the Bug Squad in 2013 and learnt how to triage bugs in Launchpad. Due to the maintainer of the Gramps package being inactive, I took over the maintenance of that package in Debian after the steep learning curve of bringing the packaging up to date. Then I learnt the process of merging and syncing packages to Ubuntu, and have also managed an SRU & done a little backporting. These days I am mostly helping out in the Ubuntu Studio Team, and only a short time ago I became an Ubuntu Member.
My involvement
Keeping an eye on the packages I maintain in Debian here in Ubuntu, and also seeded packages in Ubuntu Studio (SRUs, backports, syncs, merges & removals) Helping to create and maintain a small suite of manual test cases for Ubuntu Studio, and keeping an eye on the package tracker. Helping out with ISO Testing of the Ubuntu Studio releases for Trusty (point releases) & Xenial, and marking them ready for release for the Release Team, and drafting the Release Notes.
Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of
Areas of work
Within the Ubuntu Studio Team, Kaj Ailomaa normally uploads the ubuntustudio-* packages prepared by the Team Members. For other packages, I have had various sponsors:
The uploads were mostly comment free. In the rush towards the Xenial release, there was some dialogue with Tim (darkxst) on an imagemagick bug, and Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) on a Qjackctl bug. Dmitry ended up taking the lead and uploading a new upstream release of Qjackctl, and I need to go back and followup on the Imagemagick one (which should really become and SRU).
I lack a little bit of software development experience, and I would like to improve my programming skills by producing some useful tools for the Ubuntu Studio Team. I would like to be better at creating patches in more complicated situations, so that I can contribute them back upstream. I would also like to work on writing unit tests to help improve the quality of some upstream applications.
Things I could do better
Plans for the future
General
What I like least in Ubuntu
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