Contents

  1. Who I am
  2. My Ubuntu story
    1. My involvement
    2. Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of
    3. Areas of work
    4. Things I could do better
  3. Plans for the future
    1. General
    2. What I like least in Ubuntu
  4. Comments
  5. Endorsements
    1. TEMPLATE

I, Skia, hereby apply for core-dev.

Name

Florent 'Skia' Jacquet

Launchpad Page

https://launchpad.net/~hyask

Wiki Page

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/skia/


I am applying because:

Who I am

This is almost plain copy-paste from my Contributing Developer application, given that the story hasn't changed.

My name is Florent Jacquet, but just call me Skia, even IRL, as everyone does.

I first installed Xubuntu 7.10 alternate edition on a 64MB RAM machine in 2008. The machine was already 10 years old by that time, but the lightweight system made it usable again, and it was great! Since then, I’ve installed a lot of {X,K,}Ubuntu on all my relative’s machines: parents, grand-parents, uncles, cousins, high-school companions, high school’s machines themselves, university friends and associations, you name it. I’ve personally distro-hoped for a while, but always kept either Debian or Ubuntu on my servers or machines that I wanted stable.

I now work since 2023-10-31 for Canonical as part of Foundations/Ubuntu QA/Release Management team.

My Ubuntu story

My involvement

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

Exhaustive list of my uploads is available here:

Below is a selection of those with some quick description and pointers, to make it easier to get an idea of my work. Please ask me about specific uploads that picks your interest and are not in the list.

Feature and bugfix uploads

Package Merges and Syncs

SRUs

Autopkgtest & DEP8

Proposed Migrations

Transitions

TODO: make some more

Milestones and Exceptions

+1 maintenance

MIRs

TODO mmdebstrap

Seed Operations

Working with upstream

Debian

Upstream projects

Misc

Bug Triage and reporting

I'm often exposed to bugs, either directly or indirectly through colleagues hitting them, so I try to report them as much as possible: Just a few examples:

As part of Foundations, I'm subscribed to a number of packages where I receive bugs and triage them. Just a few examples:

Areas of work

Since I'm working for Canonical, in the Ubuntu Release Management Team (Foundations), I'm very much involved with the release process of Ubuntu as a whole. In the past, I've also been involved in the maintenance of the autopkgtest.u.c infrastructure, and the tooling around that. In the coming future, I'd like to help automate as much as possible the release process, so that it's self-documented as code, and not tribal knowledge in people's head anymore.

On my free time, which I don't have much, I like maintaining and improving swaysome, and give a hand hosting Thread and Needles. I also like to maintain and improve my lovely little space of the Internet, as well as my self-hosted NAS running Armbian. As always, side projects come and go, but I generally like hacking and DIY many things more or less always related to free software.

Things I could do better

There are a few things I'd like to improve:

Plans for the future

General

What I like least in Ubuntu

Comments

If you'd like to comment, but are not the applicant or a sponsor, do it here. Don't forget to sign with @SIG@.

Endorsements

TEMPLATE

== <SPONSORS NAME> ==
=== General feedback ===
## Please fill us in on your shared experience. (How many packages did you sponsor? How would you judge the quality? How would you describe the improvements? Do you trust the applicant?)

=== Specific Experiences of working together ===
''Please add good examples of your work together, but also cases that could have handled better.''
## Full list of sponsored packages can be generated here:
##  https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/ubuntu-sponsorships.cgi
=== Areas of Improvement ===

CategoryCoreDevApplication

skia/CoreDevApplication (last edited 2025-07-03 08:42:33 by hyask)