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| * Co-maintainer of all packages withing the Ubuntu Studio suite * Planning, documentation - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio |
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| * part maintainer of the ubuntustudio-* packages (team effort) * part maintainer of the [[http://ubuntustudio.org]] website (team effort) * part of [[http://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-core]], which owns all the other ubuntustudio lp teams. * Planning and documentation for Ubuntu Studio development * Bugfixing for packages in the Ubuntu Studio package set * Member of the upstream Debian Multimedia Team, with the ambition to begin maintaining packages there, as a step towards integrating Ubuntu Studio development wisely with upstream. |
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| I'm most proud of my work for linux-lowlatency, which is the core component needed for doing serious audio work on Ubuntu. | My work for linux-lowlatency, which is the core component needed for doing serious audio work on Ubuntu. |
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| I'm also glad to have been involved in giving our developer Len Ovens feedback when he did most of the work on creating our ubuntustudio-menu package, which greatly simplifies finding applications for users. A further step is to find a way to make searching for applications just as easy in any DE, perhaps by using freedesktop categories. The work continues.. I'm myself currently developing the next version of ubuntustudio-controls, in python/gtk, which should greatly simplify user control of particularly the audio system. No code for it is released yet, though (the rewritten version). == Areas of work == So far, I've been mostly involved in Ubuntu Studio development, making changes in ubuntustudio-* packages. The last years, the top contributors to that have been [[https://launchpad.net/~len-ovenwerks|Len Ovens]], [[https://launchpad.net/~slavender|Scott Lavender]] (the previous project lead), myself, and a few others. Since we use the xfce desktop, we tend to cooperate with Xubuntu developers, and have had some assistance from them. Especially from [[http://launchpad.net/~micahg|Micah Gersten]] who has been kind enough to sponsor a major amount of our package uploads, [[https://launchpad.net/~unit193|Unit193]] who is quite actively communicating with Ubuntu Studio devs, and of course, the Xubuntu team lead [[https://launchpad.net/~knome|Pasi Lallinaho]], who aside from helping out with development issues also is the designer of our official website theme! Also, since I'm maintaining linux-lowlatency, and following the official SRU process in paralell with linux-generic, I'm working fairly closely with Canonical kernel developers, especially with [[https://launchpad.net/~adconrad|Adam Conrad]] the release manager, and [[https://launchpad.net/~apw|Andy Whitcroft]], both of who have been a great help in setting up the maintenance procedure and showing me how it's done. I've fixed bugs for both jackd and pulseaudio, and in the latter case I've been communicating with the very helpful [[https://launchpad.net/~diwic|David Henningson]]. |
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Maintaining Ubuntu Studio packages is a fairly easy job. And we'd rather not make changes to debian imported packages in the universe repository, unless necessary - mainly when needing to fix bugs before release. |
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I, Kaj Ailomaa, apply for upload rights for:
- ubuntustudio-controls
- ubuntustudio-default-settings
- ubuntustudio-icon-theme
- ubuntustudio-installer
- ubuntustudio-lightdm-theme
- ubuntustudio-live
- ubuntustudio-look
- ubuntustudio-menu
- ubuntustudio-meta
- ubuntustudio-screensaver
- ubuntustudio-sounds
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Kaj Ailomaa |
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Wiki Page |
Who I am
Project leader for Ubuntu Studio, composer/musician, currently pursuing a career in IT, with a great passion for GNU/Linux. When I'm not sitting by the computer, or making music, I try to get outdoors running or cycling.
My Ubuntu story
Being a musician and a fan of Linux based distributions, I found some problems while trying to install a suitable system for audio production. Further along the road, this lead to me getting in touch with the Ubuntu Studio community and becoming involved in developing Ubuntu Studio. I had previously been interested in software development, but did not have much experience of the administrative process involved in organized software development. During my time in Ubuntu Studio I've tried to fix problems, in both the system, and in how to easier get people involved in developing it.
My involvement
- Project leader for Ubuntu Studio
- Co-maintainer of all packages withing the Ubuntu Studio suite
Planning, documentation - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio
maintainer of linux-lowlatency (no upload rights)
- Bug fixing of packages within the Ubuntu Studio package set.
Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of
My work for linux-lowlatency, which is the core component needed for doing serious audio work on Ubuntu. Also, organizing the development procedure for Ubuntu Studio, and writing docs for it at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio, making sure the introduction for new contributors to Ubuntu Studio development is as pain free as possible.
Things I could do better
Ubuntu Studio really needs more contributors, in all areas, and that is something we in the Ubuntu Studio team need to improve. Documentation for Ubuntu Studio devs needs to improve as well, as a preparation for that. I myself will be around the project for as long as I need to, and it is important to have people like that, who have experience and understanding of the process, who can act as mentors for newcomers. My goal is to grow more people like that in our community.
Plans for the future
Ubuntu Studio is probably the most popular linux based distribution aimed at multimedia production, but my goal is for it to be more of a showcase rather than a custom distro. The goal is to make as much changes upstream as possible, making it easy to set up any Debian based distribution for multimedia production. We need to change how realtime privileges are granted for users and also simplify - from a user POW, how jack applications interact with the audio system.
General
What I like least in Ubuntu
From the standpoint I have, what I like the least is the trouble a user must go through in order to make Ubuntu, or any other Debian based distro, running acceptably for low latency audio operation. Finding and setting up applications is quite a chore. All of this can be fixed by creating standards, in some cases in Debian, some cases all the way upstream with the application developers.
Comments
I have seen Kaj working with Ubuntu Studio for quite some time now; his input is always constructive, he works well with other people and isn't afraid to stand behind his words and on the other hand, step down when needed. I met Kaj in UDS-R personally and seeing him (work) only reaffirmed my thoughts. While I am not the right person to evaluate contributions on a technical level, Kaj's perpetual contributions are always high quality and useful for the project. I can strongly recommend giving him the upload rights for the specified package set. -- knome 2014-02-04 12:30:56
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