Request for getting a Ubuntu Developer

[Daniel Holbach]

On Di, 2007-11-27 at 22:44 +0000, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> I am Till Kamppeter, manager of the OpenPrinting project at the Linux
> Foundation. I am also contracted by Canonical to do work on
> printing-related packages.
> 
> To simplify the processes of my Ubuntu work I like to become a Ubuntu
> developer with appropriate package upload access.
> 
> I work with printing from mid 2000 on doing the printing, scanning and
> digital photography stuff for Mandriva Linux, consisting of RPM
> packaging all relevant software, developing the printer setup tool
> printerdrake, fixing bugs, reporting bugs upstream, ... This I did up to
> mid 2006 when I started at Ubuntu.
> 
> During that time I got maintainer of linuxprinting.org mid 2001,
> contributed to many upstream printing projects (and got RCS write
> access), like Gutenprint, ESP Ghostscript, GPL Ghostscript,
> system-config-printer..., organized printing booths on the LinuxTag for
> many years, given talks and tutorials about printing on numerous events.
> During that time I also worked in the OpenPrinting work group to develop
> standard APIs for printing. I also got in contact with most leading
> printer manufacturers to help them on their driver development,
> especially HP, Ricoh, Canon, Epson, Konica Minolta, Fuji Xerox, Kyocera,
> Samsung, ...
> 
>  From mid 2006 on I got employed by the Free Standards Group to merge
> linuxprinting.org with OpenPrinting and to lead the OpenPrinting
> project. Important tasks of this work are also working on the printing
> part of the LSB, the development of the LSB DDK
> (distribution-independent auto-downloadable printer and scanner driver
> packages), the development of a common printing dialog and organizing
> several printing-related conferences per year, especially the
> OpenPrinting Summits where the development of all printing-related in
> Linux and free software is planned.
> 
> My packaging experience covers both RPM (from Mandriva) and Debian
> (Ubuntu) and also convertible LSB RPMs (LSB DDK). For Ubuntu I am
> packaging all printer driver packages (HPLIP, Gutenprint, SpliX,
> foo2zjs, m2300w, ...), Ghostscript, CUPS, system-config-printer,
> cups-pdf, ... for more than a year now.
> 
> I have merged ESP Ghostscript with GPL Ghostscript and made the first
> Debian package of that in collaboration with the Ghostscript maintainer
> of Debian and this package is currently used by both Debian and Ubuntu,
> also for HPLIP I established a collaboration with Debian and I have a
> joint SVN repo with Mark Purcell for this package. For
> system-config-printer I have a good collaboration with Tim Waugh from
> Red Hat and have introduced the first working Plug'n'Print (automatic
> print queue setup) for Ubuntu.
> 
> Naturally, I am also answering and triaging printing-related bug reports
>   on the Launchpad and make upstream developers and printer
> manufacturers aware of problems.
> 
> My Ubuntu uploads were usually sponsored by Martin Pitt, were he only
> has to do the upload itself, of readily created packages done by me.
> 
> For the formal process of getting a Ubuntu developer I have already
> uploaded a PGP key to the Launchpad and signed the Code of Conduct. So I
> am marked as Ubuntero in the Launchpad and PPA is activated.
> 
> Links/References:
> 
> https://edge.launchpad.net/~till-kamppeter/
> https://edge.launchpad.net/~till-kamppeter/+packages
> 
> http://www.openprinting.org/
> 
> https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/DatabaseIntro
> http://openprinting.org/driver_list.cgi
> http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi
> 
> https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/WritingAndPackagingPrinterDrivers
> https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/Foomatic
> https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Development
> 
> https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/LFJapanSymposiumTokyo2007
> https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/SummitMontreal
> https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/LFSummitMountainView2007
> https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/SummitLexington
> 
> http://www.cups.org/espgs/index.php



CCing Matthias Klose and Martin Pitt who did the bulk of sponsoring for
him. Matthias and Martin: can you please send your feedback to this
list?

Thanks in advance.

Have a nice day,
 Daniel

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