MOTU Application

[Gauvain Pocentek]

Hi Andrea,

Although the feedback from your CCed sponsors is good, I've also heard
from other sponsors with whom you seemed to have worked quite a lot, and
their feedback is not so good.

I've seen several exemples of your merges for instance, and the
bugreports seem to show that you have to provide several patches before
having a good one accepted (bug 114499 for instance). Other examples are
bug 121593 (broken versionning) and the regexxer FTFBS which is not
fixed since May 09.

Do you realize that becoming a MOTU means that you can touch any package
in Universe/Multiverse without  someone checking your work?

I'm happy to see you huge involvment in both Debian and Ubuntu, but it's
IMO a little sooner to give you upload rights.

Gauvain



Andrea Veri wrote:
> Dear MOTU council,
>
> I'm asking to please consider this mail as my application to become an 
> official Master of the Universe.
>
> I started working with MOTUs exactly one year and two months ago (after 
> becoming a Ubuntu Member) with my first upload to REVU dated 26 May 
> 2006, working closely with Jordan Mantha that started following my work 
> reviewing and helping me out with first packaging tasks. Since the begin 
> I was very interested in everything  torrent related, which taken me to 
> create the MOTU-Torrents team, which takes care of a great number of 
> torrent applications, like gnome-btdownload (I co-maintain in debian) in 
> main, that was still at version 0.0.25 after several months of version 
> 0.0.28 upstream upgrade, which I packaged fixing tons of bugs reported 
> since 2006.
> I'm currently involved in debian too [1], working mostly on p2p 
> applications, waiting verlihub (famous dc++ hub software) to join the 
> archive soon with NEW processing, and recently on libagg, communicating 
> with upstream to make it a shared library for next releases.
> One of the most important things I believe in for hopefuls and for new 
> contributors is the word "documentation", that's why I managed to write 
> a new chapter for the official ubuntu packaging guide, named 
> "Debian/Rules" [2], that takes care of explaining a lot of usefull 
> informations regarding one of the most important maintainer scripts in 
> debian/ , but makefiles in general. I've matured the decision to write 
> such a document because I've seen a lot of requests/questions/problems 
> regarding this specific file, and it seems that it has been appreciated 
> looking into user's mail, I received. I worked a lot doing tons of 
> merges and bug fixes [3] for a great number of applications, reporting 
> the patches to the debian BTS too, to get them included improving both 
> debian and ubuntu distributions to simplify MOTU's life while merging 
> new revisions/releases in a second time.
> Working directly with upstream is one of the main goals I usually have 
> when starting a package; I currently maintain most of my packages using 
> bzr where upstream can push new files or new previews, that can be 
> simply merged with my branches containing debian dirs and finally 
> building them using a great tool: bzr-builddeb.
> During this long period, I've learnt to cooperate closely with upstream 
> and debian maintainers trying to import ubuntu changes/bug 
> fixes/patches, directly to debian, getting packages directly synced in 
> ubuntu making everyone's life easier with new development circles.
> One of the things, I would love most becoming a MOTU, is the sponsoring 
> process, reviewing, giving hints, help new packagers to figure out their 
> problems on REVU, and also learn making one more step forward from where 
> I am now, improving my skills and experience just with helping who needs 
> an hand.
> I'll keep working on motu-torrents team, with the main goal to introduce 
> a new libtorrent with the support for a lot of new clients and features, 
> also processing incoming merges, improving the work with upstream, 
> trying to move them to maintain their source directly using bzr branches 
> on launchpad, working on bug-fixes and sponsoring new packagers joining 
> the U-U-S team.
>
> I've subscribed to this mail all my direct sponsors:
>
> - Alexander Sack <asac at ubuntu.com> (sponsor both for ubuntu and debian)
> - ZhengPeng Hou <zhengpeng-hou at ubuntu.com> (sponsor)
> - Vladimír Lapacek <vil at ubuntu.com> (sponsor)
> - Ante Karamatic <ivoks at ubuntu.com> (sponsor)
> - Jordan Mantha <mantha at ubuntu.com> (first reviewer and docs sponsor)
>
>
> [1] 
> http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=bluekuja%40ubuntu.com&comaint=yes
> [2] http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/packagingguide/C/ch04.html
> [3] https://launchpad.net/~bluekuja/+packages
>
> thanks for the consideration and hear you soon,
>
> --
> Andrea Veri
> Email: bluekuja at ubuntu.com
> Email: bluekuja at ubuntu-it.org (Contact for Ubuntu Italy)
> Email: bluekuja at edubuntu.org (Contact for Edubuntu related stuff)
>
>
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