MOTUApplication

I, Robert Hooker, apply for MOTU.

Name

Robert Hooker

Launchpad Page

https://launchpad.net/~sarvatt

Wiki Page

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sarvatt

Who I am

Tell us a bit about yourself.

My Ubuntu story

Tell us how and when you got involved, what you liked working on and what you could probably do better.

My involvement

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

Areas of work

Let us know what you worked on, with which development teams / developers you cooperated and how it worked out.

Things I could do better

Plans for the future

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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Endorsements

Bryce Harrington

General feedback

Sarvatt has been contributing to Ubuntu's X.org stack for years now. Initially he helped by testing and suggesting patches, then moved to doing packaging changes in PPAs. He has been instrumental in maintaining the very important xorg-edgers repository. Even though that repository is advertised as bleeding edge unstable code, he's put in much effort to resolving problems and keeping it as stable as possible - talents he applies equally to the Ubuntu release itself. He has also been very involved in chasing down X.org bugs and finding/testing/packaging patches. I've sponsored bunches of his X.org package uploads and trust him implicitly. He's good about working with upstream and getting patches sent back upstream where appropriate (better than I am anyway).

Recently he's joined Canonical to work on the Hardware Enablement team, where I've been sponsoring X.org SRUs. Yes, that's probably about the scariest kinds of packaging there is to do in Ubuntu! But he's been doing great at it.

Specific Experiences of working together

Most all the package uploads I sponsor need no comment and I just send them straight through. He always tests stuff himself, so for the rare times I catch something, it'll be for something minor - a typo or a non-regression goof. He's quick to fix issues once they're identified.

Over the past couple years when I was the sole X.org guy at Canonical, I relied heavily on Sarvatt's advice, testing, and sanity checking. Indeed, even today he gave me some good tips for Wayland packaging to avoid problems I hadn't yet run into.

Areas of Improvement

None

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=== Specific Experiences of working together ===
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