I, Shih-Yuan Lee, apply for MOTU.

Who I am

I am a Canonical employee. I works for Commercial Engineering - PC & Core Taipei of Ubuntu Engineering and Services. Before I joined Canonical, I have been a member of Taipei Open Source Software User Group, Linux Taiwan and Debian Taiwan. Sometimes I joined or created open source software and free software projects, seeing https://about.me/fourdollars for details. I also maintained some Debian packages in Debian, seeing http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=fourdollars@gmail.com.

My Ubuntu story

As a community member, I created and maintained Ubuntu Traditional Chinese Group on Facebook and supported Ubuntu Taiwan Community for many years. As a Canonical employee, I physically joined UDS-{M,N,O,P}. I preloaded the customized Ubuntu systems in any kind of x86 PCs for ASUS, Dell, ECS, HP and Lenovo, and fixed many issues reported from ODMs in Ubuntu.

My involvement

Please also check https://launchpad.net/~fourdollars/+related-packages and http://ubuntu-dev.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/ubuntu-sponsorships.cgi?render=html&sponsor=&sponsor_search=name&sponsoree=Shih-Yuan+Lee*&sponsoree_search=name.

• Apt

  • InstallPackageNames should not return until the package has been installed

  • Failed to upgrade system from 14.04

• Audio

  • Audio playing back too fast over HDMI on haswell

• Bluetooth

  • Treats bluetooth input device batteries as batteries

  • Apple Wireless Keyboard/Mouse is not listed as its original name. It stripped non-ascii characters (UTF-8 valid)

  • bluetoothd crashs after resuming from Suspend to RAM TODO: upstream

  • Bluetooth menu's content disappeared after resume TODO: upstream

• Debian

  • reportbug: crashes on BTS query returning "HTTPError 500 Internal Server Error"

• Input Method

  • There is a twice pages turning problem when using plain zhuyin with space as selection

  • The preferences window of ibus-chewing crashed after clicking save button

  • Use shift keypress to switch to English mode

• Installer

  • grub2-signed can not find the right device when there are two filesystems containing the file '.disk/info'

  • 32-Bit UEFI bootloader support needed

  • Trusty: testing .2 the oem session on i386 leaves the oem wifi password in place

  • netboot mini.iso doesn't support UEFI BIOS mode installation

  • Skip eMMC device's boot0, boot1 and rpmb partitions

  • UEFI BootOrder is not empty after I removed the last boot entry

  • Linux kernel in Ubuntu doesn't provide mmc-modules udeb

  • partman-efi should follow partman-auto/disk to reuse the ESP

• Graphics

  • external/internal monitors mirrored on boot when laptop lid is closed

  • Erratic cursor movement when using "Coordinate Transformation Matrix"

  • The modaliases field is not complete

  • gnome-rr: Normalize the minimum brightness level

  • re-enable rotation for the intel driver in optimus mode

  • Adjust brightness to lowest value caused screen whole black

• HiDPI

  • Doesn't scale well on a hidpi display

  • Account creation during first boot of an OEM image needs to scale based on resolution

  • LibreOffice doesn't support HiDPI well

  • The thumbnails of background images doesn't support HiDPI display

  • The background image becomes titled for a while during the logout process

  • The organized files and folders are covered by Unity Launcher

  • Amazon webapp doesn't follow the scale factor for HiDPI display

  • eog (a GNOME image viewer) doesn't support HiDPI display

  • Nautilus transparent background becomes a mess when changing scaling factor

• Python

  • SocketServer doesn't handle client disconnects properly

• Sync Package

  • Sync betaradio 1.4-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

  • Sync ibus-chewing 1.3.10+clean-1 (main) from Debian unstable (main)

  • Sync hime 0.9.9-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

  • Sync pcmanx-gtk2 1.1-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

  • Please backport fonts-cns11643 98.1-2 (multiverse) from quantal

• Touchpad

  • Some touchpads' right button doesn't work under I2C mode, need support of clickpads

  • touchpad stops working after suspend/resume on XPS13 2015

• Utils

  • lb_binary_disk doesn't check compression of the initramfs

  • pristine-tar: command failed when using git-buildpackage on the xz tarball

• WWAN

  • novatel: improve probing for Dell branded modems

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

• I made a legacy traditional Chinese input method ibus-zhuyin from scratch. I also maintain it in Debian Package Tracker - ibus-zhuyin so you can install it in Debian/Ubuntu.

• I made a pure X11 application x11-touchscreen-calibrator from scratch to calibrate the touchscreen automatically. I also maintain it in Debian Package Tracker - x11-touchscreen-calibrator so you can install it in Debian/Ubuntu.

• Debian Maintainer since 2015-10-01

Areas of work

My daily work in Canonical is mainly for Ubuntu OEM images, so I work on the installer, related components and the image build system, such as debian-installer, ubiquity, live-build and dell-recovery. But except Ubuntu OEM images, I also work for any kind of issues reported by Canonical OEM QA and the OEM/ODM QA, such as Linux kernel, X Window system, Freedesktop components, GNOME components and Unity components.

Things I could do better

I hope I can learn more knowledge about the package uploading process and convention in Ubuntu, and then I would like to apply to become an Ubuntu core developer.

Plans for the future

General

There are many issues from the Ubuntu community in Taiwan but there is no package developer at all. I wish I can become a MOTU to do some package relative works for the Ubuntu community in Taiwan.

What I like least in Ubuntu

I would like to deal with issues relative to traditional Chinese in Taiwan, such as the input method, text display and the installation.

Comments

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Endorsements

Daniel Holbach (dholbach)

As a sponsor, just copy the template below, fill it out and add it to this section. I really enjoy working with Shih-Yuan. He responds quickly, he pays attention to details is happy to work with Debian and upstreams, and has been contributing to Debian for years.. He knows his way around and it always happy to help others. I fully endorse him as a MOTU. -- dholbach 2016-03-03 14:01:45

Alberto Milone (tseliot)

I have worked with Shih-Yuan for years now, and he has proved to be pretty knowledgeable and versatile in his approach. He is also very responsive and easy to work with. As a Core developer, I fully endorse him as a MOTU. -- albertomilone 2016-03-04 20:45:47

seb128

I reviewed and sponsored several SRUs for Shih-Yuan. He's responsive to questions/requests for changes and doing good work. I recommend if for MOTU

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