marco-parillo
Contact Information
Name: |
Marco Parillo |
Location: |
United States of America |
Timezone: |
Eastern US, observe DST (current time) |
Launchpad Profile: |
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Email: |
via Launchpad |
IRC: |
mparillo (bouncer) and marco-parillo (webchat) on irc.freenode.net |
Forum (www.kubuntuforums.net) |
User: mparillo |
About Me
Hi, I'm a long-time Kubuntu user who has decided it is time to apply for membership.
I started using Unix on a PDP-11, and first used Linux as a live DVD with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron), and in VMs soon afterwards. I moved to Kubuntu after the 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Unity debut, but realized that it was not KDE software that made Kubuntu special, but the way contributors were immediately made welcome.
Contributions
User support/social media & team engagement
- User engagement and help on:
www.kubuntuforums.net (unofficial forum).
IRC - #kubuntu on irc.freenode.net
- Team engagement via:
IRC - #kubuntu-devel on irc.freenode.net. KDE BNC account obtained to keep a presence on this channel, which is the most important forum for development discussion.
Phabricator Documentation and Task Board
KDE UserBase Wiki
KDE Community Wiki
- Ubuntu Wiki, especially for Alpha and Beta release pages
Kubuntu Advocacy
Testing & bug reports
- Running the development version of Kubuntu (often with -staging / -landing PPAs).
- Reporting, confirming and testing for bug reports; both in Kubuntu and upstream to KDE.
Testing on PC, laptop and various virtual machines newly staged versions of Frameworks, Plasma & Applications, and then continuing to test and report issues once these reach the landing ppas.
- Testing of daily ISOs for function and install.
- Testing of candidate ISOs for Alpha, Beta, and milestone releases (e.g. Xenial 16.04.3)
Upstream Examples
Timeline
Below are non-exhaustive highlights.
2010-08-19 - Opened Launchpad Account
- 2012-04-13 - First contribution to the KDE User Base
2012-08-15 - Raised bug against the Kubuntu Website, offering to try to fix it myself
- 2012-08-16 - Jonathan Riddell (jr) invited me to join #kubuntu-devel
- 2012-08-17 - First post on #kubuntu-devel; first bzr push
- 2012-09-01 - First bug posted to bugs.kde.org
2014-08-28 - Early contribution to release notes with Utopic Beta 1. I recall noting something, and the response was "It is a wiki"
2014-12-17 - Heavy contributions to release notes started with Vivid Alpha 1
Testimonials
Note: If you have anything nice to say about this person, please do add it below along with @ SIG @ (no spaces). The @ SIG @ command will sign your name and date/time it after you "Save Changes".
Marco is not just a long-time faithful and helpful part of the team, he's also there just when needed. In particular his making the release notes look good along with being factually correct has been really important. I'm very happy to see him apply for Kubuntu Membership. -- valorie-zimmerman 2017-09-20 02:50:14
marco-parillo (last edited 2023-02-03 02:15:53 by marco-parillo)