I, Tiago Stürmer Daitx, apply for core-dev.

Who I am

My name is Tiago Stürmer Daitx and I work for Canonical on the Ubuntu Core Foundations team.

My Ubuntu story

Between Hoary and Gutsy I was an eventual Ubuntu user, moving sometimes to Debian or other distros as required to get the best HW support at the time. When I started working for IBM's Linux Technology Center in 2008 I got back to Ubuntu, following it from Hardy to Maverick (I survived a few bad distro updates there), but Unity led me away again to other distros (this time due mostly to limited hardware resources, and I wanted all the free RAM I could get). During our PPC64LE kickstart I worked on a few packages for an internal Debian release for PPC64LE, mostly focused on GCJ and OpenJDK. Since I have been contracted by Canonical as a Java Maintainer I have been working on various parts of Ubuntu.

My involvement

As a Foundations team member I am a generalist. I worked on FTBFS fixes, merges, triaging, helped on GCC5 transition, contributed fixes to both Debian and upstream, etc. My main focus is OpenJDK maintenance and certification, I also intent to work closely together with both IcedTea and OpenJDK developers.

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

Other:

• Upstreamed xrender fix from openjdk-7 package to Icedtea - PR2571, which was also backported to 6 in PR2662

• Bug triaging for Squid3 and OpenJDK 7

References:

• Packages I have contributed to in
  

  • Ubuntu Sponsorship Miner
    

  • https://launchpad.net/~tdaitx/+related-packages
    

• Bugs I have commented on
  

Areas of work

I have worked with the Foundations and various teams to fix FTBFS, provide merges, help maintain and update several packages in universe and main. In all cases, I try to develop good relationship with the upstream project and Debian. I actively listen to and ask for feedback from my peers and seniors.

Things I could do better

Increase the time I dedicate to triaging.

Plans for the future

General

• On the maintenance side, as part of my Canonical Java Maintainer job, I will package, integrate new features, release security updates, and certificate OpenJDK packages for all supported Ubuntu series. It is also my goal to develop good relationship with the upstream projects and Debian.
• On the community side, I intent to actively participate on bug triaging, sponsoring, and try my best to share my experience.

What I like least in Ubuntu

Too many different ways to keep and track packages, even worse: there are packages with no VCS at all. This makes it harder to track down changes, deal with merges, add a good CI system to handle it all.

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=== Specific Experiences of working together ===
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