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Launchpad ID:

sarvatt

IRC:

Sarvatt on irc.freenode.net

Sarvatt on irc.efnet.net

Email:

<sarvatt@ubuntu.com>

About Me

My name is Robert Hooker, I'm 29 years old, married, live in Alexandria, Virginia (USA) and I have been using ubuntu off and on since 6.06. I first started using ubuntu as my primary desktop OS with jaunty in december 2008 (prior to that I just messed around with it), but I have been using the server variants for a long while before because I prefer debian packaging and the more up-to-date packages ubuntu usually provides. My main motivation for switching my primary OS to linux was to ease the usage of my linux servers, and also to have a nicer development environment for android projects I was working on. I am very interested in the ports architectures, PPC and arm especially.

My main interest involves working with the X stack in ubuntu to help keep things up to date, and I have been working with the ubuntu-x team in that regard since March 2009. I am one of the maintainers of the xorg-edgers PPA where we provide an updated X stack that enables people to easily test updated components. That in turn helps developers track down bugs easier and enables users to leverage new X technologies such as KMS before they are available in the main distribution. I am also working to (hopefully) help ease the transition to xorg 7.5 by packaging and maintaining a xorg-testing PPA with all of the latest components from git which requires a large number of changes.

Contributions Summary

  • Co-administrator/maintainer of the xorg-edgers team on launchpad, member of the ubuntu-x team.

  • Packaging of X components for inclusion in ubuntu.
  • Xorg development.
  • Wrote the ppa-purge script ppa-purge

  • Bug Fixes, SRU's.

Contributions in the Ubuntu archives

Lucid:

Karmic:

Jaunty:

Plans and ideas for the near future

  • Helping introduce new technologies such as ATI KMS into Karmic.
  • Ensuring a quality out of the box X experience with ubuntu. Some things such as the display device detection routines in xserver need work.
  • Helping with the transition to xorg 7.5. PPA

Plans and ideas for the distant future

  • Helping with the transition to future linux technologies such as Gallium3D PPA with nouveau gallium, R600 DRI in mesa (done).

  • Nouveau KMS support integration. PPA (Done)

  • armel architecture improvements.


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