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I, Sergio Schvezov, apply for upload rights for:

• lxc-android-config
• android
• goget-ubuntu-touch
• phablet-tools
• autopilot
• golang-gocheck
• golang-pb
• golang-go-flags
• livecd-rootfs
• session-manager-touch
• platform-api
• qtmultimedia-opensource-src-touch
• android-tools
• ofono

About Me

TL;DR

I'm a generation X or Y person depending on when the cutoff date is. For someone who lived in Argentina and in a non early network connected town, I consider myself an early adopter starting with Slackware from a huge set of floppies from a magazzine called Solo Programadores only to discover my family PC was not supported as it had a Triden 9440 card, given the family PC status, I abandoned it until a couple years later where I discovered Red Hat 5.2 and later on Debian (IIRC woody) which was the distribution I stuck with the longest after Ubuntu in the later years.

After getting my first broadband connection I turned into what some people call a *distro hopper* (they didn't last more than a month, except for Gentoo and LFS which took a month to install); you could also include the *BDSs and Solaris/OpenSolaris in those distros.

With regards to work; I've been hired in the past by Motorola where I used Solaris extensively to QA what became TEAM where I worked mostly on the installations, test environments and the actual protocols (SIP, PTT, Cellular/GSM).

I then moved on to work at Intel; where I started out in IT and lab management and spread Ubuntu all over the place and had the first Linux installation in the commercial datacenter. I then moved on to work for Intel's AppUp for MeeGo, which looked pretty much like Ubuntu Software Center now and had apps promoted though it's panels (much like Ubuntu's Lens).

Actual ME

Come 2012, I moved on to work for Canonical; I love the work here, the openness and community around Ubuntu. My dedication was initially on Ubuntu for Android but shortly after became part of the team that started building the phablet, now called Ubuntu Touch and hopefully soon, just Ubuntu That team today is the Ubuntu Phone Foundtations team.

Contact Information

Contributions

Mostly worked around what adds up to Ubuntu Touch:

• ... first ports for maguro, then also mako and manta (repo)

• ... wrote and maintain phablet-tools.

• ... heavily contributed to the Ubuntu Touch porting guide.
• ... actively maintained the Jenkins servers (s-jenkins) where we used to build Ubuntu Touch completely from.

• ... initially packaged many of the Ubuntu Touch specific components, mostly the ones listed here.

• ... some adaptations/porting for autopilot on devices.
• ... packaged and worked on the build and sync for all preinstalled click applications.

• ... worked on the CI for most of the packages that were specific to Ubuntu Touch. We luckily have a CI team for that now

• ... non ci (daily release) packaging contributions:

  • ... Debian packages sponsoree http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=sergio.schvezov@canonical.com

  • ... Ubuntu packages sponsoree http://ubuntu-dev.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/ubuntu-sponsorships.cgi?render=html&sponsoree=Sergio+Schvezov&sponsoree_search=name

You can often find me on #ubuntu-touch, #ubuntu-ci-eng and #ubuntu-devel on freenode.

My relevant talks at events (outside of [v]UDS) are:

• An Introduction to Ubuntu Touch at the FLISOL 2013; I was also an organizer.

• A similar Ubuntu Touch Intro talk and another Porting to Ubuntu Touch crash course at UbuConLA 2013.

• A talk about testing and autopilot in general at PyConAR 2012.

• UbuntuOpenWeek -> Ubuntu Touch Team

Things I can do better

• Track existing bugs in a more active manner.
• Respond to issues faster.

Future Goals

• Add some love to the Ubuntu Emulator.
• Create some tools around the Ubuntu Emulator to grab images easier.
• Tweak the recovery images so it's more productized.
• Work with the team to migrate to a newer android code base.
• Create porting tests for people to diagnose their porting status in an easier way.

• Discover Go(lang) (I tried a quick phablet-flash; go get launchpad.net/phablet-tools/udbflash; seems to even work faster).

• Package Go repos/projects for Debian (to sync into Ubuntu).

Comments

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Testimonials

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If you know me and have something nice to say, please leave a comment here.

I've worked with Sergio on Ubuntu Touch for over a year now. I have no hesitation in writing a completely positive testimonial for him. Sergio is hard working, professional, conscientious and good fun to drink beer with. Without Sergio I'm sure Ubuntu Touch wouldn't be as far along as it is right now. As well as being an asset to the company he's of great value to the community. -- AlanPope

I've been working with Sergio for more than a year too, and it's a pleasure to write something nice about him today! Sergio is easy to interact with, he is very deep technically and he always tries to find the root cause of issues and fix them in ways they will never occur again, yet he keeps a pragmatic attitude to getting things done and knows how to write good Python, shell and packaging! He's always listening to other opinions carefully and seeks consensus. I highly recommend interacting with Sergio! -- Loïc Minier

Sergio shows outstanding packaging skills. I sponsored various packages for him in the past and also recieved packaging fixes multiple times for my own stuff in main. He definitely qualifies for core-dev upload rights, is handling changes and tests of these prior to uploading more responsible that some actual core-devs i know and is very dedicated to working with the community. It would be a big loss for the developer team as well as the community (where he often invests big amounts of time into user support too) to not have him -- Oliver Grawert