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== Contributions Summary == * Maintaining the [[https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa|xorg-edgers PPA]]. * Packaging of X components for inclusion in ubuntu. * Xorg development. * Bug Fixes, SRU's. |
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| === 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 need work. * Helping with the transition to xorg 7.5. === Plans and ideas for the distant future === * Helping with the transition to future linux technologies such as Gallium3D, R600 DRI in mesa, and the removal of RAC from xserver and the kernel which will allow multiple xservers to run in parallel. * Nouveau KMS support integration. * armel architecture improvements. |
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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 ease android development after I obtained a few android based phones which I needed to compile kernels for. I am very interested in the ports architectures, PPC and arm especially and arm kernel development is what drew me to linux. I still use IRIX on a few old SGI machines to this day 
My first interaction with linux was with slackware 1.2 in 1994 (still have the 53 floppies!) but I didn't use it seriously until more recently.
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 which helps developers track down bugs and enables users to leverage new X technologies such as KMS before they are available in the main distribution. I am also working to 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 I believe will help greatly for spotting changes that need to be made when ubuntu transitions to the newer packages.
Contributions Summary
Maintaining the xorg-edgers PPA.
- Packaging of X components for inclusion in ubuntu.
- Xorg development.
- Bug Fixes, SRU's.
Packaging Contributions
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 need work.
- Helping with the transition to xorg 7.5.
Plans and ideas for the distant future
- Helping with the transition to future linux technologies such as Gallium3D, R600 DRI in mesa, and the removal of RAC from xserver and the kernel which will allow multiple xservers to run in parallel.
- Nouveau KMS support integration.
- armel architecture improvements.
Sarvatt (last edited 2011-07-28 04:04:10 by c-68-34-39-96)