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I’ve been contributing significantly to Ubuntu since late 2013. As of September 2019, I’ve touched [[https://bit.ly/2lAcnrr|nearly 1500 bug reports]] and initiated [[https://code.launchpad.net/~marcustomlinson/+merges|more than 300 merge proposals]] across a broad range Ubuntu projects - that's, on average, 1 merge and 5 bugs per week for the past 6 years :) | I’ve been contributing significantly to Ubuntu since late 2013. As of September 2019, I’ve touched [[https://bit.ly/2lAcnrr|nearly 1500 bug reports]] and initiated [[https://code.launchpad.net/~marcustomlinson/+merges|more than 300 merge proposals]] across a wide range Ubuntu projects - that's, on average, 1 merge and 5 bugs per week for the past 6 years :) |
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Projects I’ve contributed significantly to (i.e. code added / bugs fixed) include: | Projects I’ve contributed significantly to (i.e. features added / bugs fixed) include: |
Hi! I'm applying to become an Ubuntu Contributing Developer and Per-package Uploader for LibreOffice.
About Me
My name is Marcus Tomlinson. I'm a qualified BSc Software Engineer from Durban, South Africa, with well over a decade of experience in embedded and non-embedded software development. When I'm not writing software, I'm usually writing music or books. Sometimes I may even write a book about software, or software around music.
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Contributions
I’ve been contributing significantly to Ubuntu since late 2013. As of September 2019, I’ve touched nearly 1500 bug reports and initiated more than 300 merge proposals across a wide range Ubuntu projects - that's, on average, 1 merge and 5 bugs per week for the past 6 years
Projects I’ve contributed significantly to (i.e. features added / bugs fixed) include:
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Highlights
Unity APIs
- Heavily involved in designing and developing Ubuntu’s Unity Shell features and APIs from 2013 to 2017 (as you can tell from the list above).
Co-created (w/ Michi Henning) the middleware layer and API behind Scopes.
Created a C++-to-JS binding library called: "V8-cpp", to provide JavaScript APIs for the team's many C++ APIs.
- Recognised as Technical Lead for my considerable contribution to Scopes and broad experience across much of the Unity API suite.
Ubuntu Desktop
Improved desktop-launch (snapcraft-desktop-helpers) cold run time by 20%-30%.
Developed the first set of GNOME build- and platform-snaps, aimed at greatly simplifying GNOME-based snap packaging.
Took over maintenance of the LibreOffice Ubuntu packages (deb and snap) in mid-2019.
Steadily reduced the backlog of LibreOffice issues by staying on top of triaging, and keeping up-to-date with releases, SRUs, and CVEs.
Merged the libreoffice-l10n meta package into libreoffice and introduced libreoffice-help-common.
Reduced the overall size of the LibreOffice snap by ~20%, and its cold run time by ~45%.
Future Goals
Become an Ubuntu Contributing Developer and Per-package Uploader for LibreOffice.
- Continue to develop my experience with a wide range of technologies and domains.
- Find opportunities to work with different languages, on different projects, and at different layers.
Testimonials
If you have something nice to say about me, please add it below along with @ SIG @ (no spaces) - The @ SIG @ command will sign your name and date/time it after you "Save Changes". Thank you!
pstolowski
I worked with Marcus on Unity API and Unity Scopes for a few years and he contributed a lot to the project. He is a great software engineer, highly skilled, versatile and passionate about all aspects of software development. He is a good and dependable team player, very honest, open and easy going, working with him was a pleasure!
-- stolowski 2019-09-25 15:19:17
mdeslaur
Marcus has been preparing the LibreOffice security updates that I release for a while now. They are always well done, well prepared, and well tested. He is attentive to detail and an excellent engineer. I wholeheartedly recommend Marcus gain LibreOffice PPU rights.
-- mdeslaur 2019-09-25 18:08:49
jamesh
I have worked with Marcus on both the Unity API Team and the Ubuntu Desktop Team. He is an excellent software engineer with strong C++ skills, and an attention to software quality. On the Unity API Team, all team members were responsible for maintaining the Debian packaging of the software we developed, and Marcus had no trouble here. On the Desktop team, Marcus has been doing great work maintaining the LibreOffice packages (no small feat), and has quickly mastered snap packaging.
-- jamesh 2019-09-25 19:21:35
marcustomlinson (last edited 2019-10-21 17:39:59 by marcustomlinson)