William 'jawn-smith' Wilson Core Developer Application

[Lukasz Zemczak]

Congratulations on your successful application today! Welcome to the team!

On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 at 23:50, William Wilson
<william.wilson at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you for both the feedback and the vote! Regardless of the outcome of this application I will continue searching for more opportunities to work with non-foundations members.
>
> William
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 3:46 PM Dan Streetman <ddstreet at canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 2:12 PM William Wilson
>> <william.wilson at canonical.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I, William 'jawn-smith' Wilson re-apply for core-dev. I have added my application to the agenda for Nov 29, 2021.
>>
>> for reference, the meeting log from your previous application is here:
>> https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2021/09/20/%23ubuntu-meeting.txt
>>
>> my vote/feedback from the mtg:
>> [16:35] <ddstreet> -1 most of your technical work seems good to me,
>> but I'm concerned about SRU work; in particular I'm worried that most
>> of your experience has been with the devel release, and most SRU work
>> is with "special" packages that don't follow the normal SRU rules. I
>> also am concerned that most of your experience, and all your
>> endorsements, are from fellow team members on the foundations team.
>> I'd like to see more endorsements from non-foundations
>> [16:35] <ddstreet> people, and more SRU work, especially difficult SRU work.
>>
>> I reviewed your recent SRU uploads and while I'd *ideally* like to see
>> a few more (the speedtest-cli, hplip, and ghostscript SRU patches are
>> all pretty basic), I feel like it's a good enough example of
>> understanding of the process and I've seen enough of your more
>> detailed technical work from the previous application.
>>
>> I'd still really like to have seen at least one endorsement from a
>> sponsor who isn't on the Foundations team, but that certainly isn't a
>> requirement and I won't hold it against you :-)
>>
>> So, please consider this email my official +1 vote for your application.
>>
>> >
>> > I have updated my application with steps I have taken to improve my ability to contribute to Ubuntu as a core developer: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/jawn-smith/CoreDeveloperApplication . I will also provide a short summary in this thread:
>> >
>> > One of the main pieces of feedback I received during my first application was my lack of SRU experience, and the fact that many of the SRUs I had done were total backports rather than SRUs that cherry-pick small changes. I have written the SRU templates and created the debdiffs for LP: #1938442 LP: #1913656 and LP: #1944475 . I have also created a patch and performed SRU verification (after somebody else filled out the SRU template) for LP: #1923352. While I am still waiting to have some of these uploaded, I believe they demonstrate my understanding of the SRU template and how to cherry pick minor code changes.
>> >
>> > I have also completed the Go 1.17 transition, and read a good amount of documentation to better understand transitions and seeds, and other useful concepts.
>> >
>> > I have kept my calendar clear this time in case this meeting runs long again.
>> >
>> > Thank you for your consideration,
>> >
>> > William
>> >
>> > On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 3:36 PM Dan Streetman <ddstreet at canonical.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 12:27 PM William Wilson
>> >> <william.wilson at canonical.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > I, William 'jawn-smith' Wilson, apply for core-dev.
>> >> >
>> >> > My application can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/jawn-smith/CoreDeveloperApplication
>> >>
>> >> During today's DMB meeting, the board voted to decline the application
>> >> for Ubuntu Core Developer, with feedback provided during the meeting.
>> >>
>> >> We appreciate your work for Ubuntu and look forward to your
>> >> reapplication at a future meeting!
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > I am aware of the request to submit the application at least a week before the meeting during which my application is considered. However, I was hoping you would be willing to consider my application during the next meeting on September 6 as I have a week of +1 maintenance work starting on September 13. I completely understand if this is too short notice, and would be happy to move my application to September 20.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thank you for your consideration,
>> >> >
>> >> > William
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