MOTU Application - Andrea Colangelo (warp10)

[Andrea Colangelo]

Members of MOTU council,

please consider my application to become MOTU.

* My launchpad page:
  - https://launchpad.net/~warp10
* My wiki page:
  - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AndreaColangelo/
* A complete, up-to-date list of my contributions:
  - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AndreaColangelo/Contributions

I started my journey through the Ubuntu Development in October 2007, and
uploaded my first package in November 2007. Since then, I worked on a
number of different packages [1], both for main/restricted and
universe/multiverse.

My main interests are Games, Science and QA activities.

I am a member of the Debian Games Team [2] and packaged a brand new game
(Tennix) that I maintain both in Debian and Ubuntu. I mostly worked on
games at early stages of my contribution, providing several easy
bugfixes for many different packages.
Regarding Science, I am a member of MOTU Science [3], and worked to sync
from Debian a huge number of packages that were not present in Ubuntu
before the FF.

In the last weeks, I developed a particular interest for QA activities.
I have been involved in fixing FTFBS, unmetdeps and library transitions
(a topic for which I wrote a wiki guide [4]). QA will probabvly be the
field where I will focus a great part of my energies in the future, and
I have a strong intention to increase my knowledge about this topic.

This involvement in QA activities is among the reasons for which I would
like to get upload rights. This kind of work often involves fixes that,
altough important, are usually very simple, (sometimes, even easy
no-change rebuilds), and opening a bug and going through the sponsorship
process is not very practical and handy. As a MOTU, I could speed up the
fixes releases and improve the quality of the archive and distribution.

Currently, I maintain two packages in Debian [5]. Tennix has been
synced in Ubuntu already; gbemol has been packaged after FF, and is
likely to be synced during the Intrepid release cycle.

Plans for the future includes:
  - continuing my involvement in QA, Debian Games Team and MOTU science;
  - continuing to package and maintain software for Debian and Ubuntu;
  - joining ubuntu-universe-sponsors to help our contributors and keep
the queue as short as possible.

This is a list of my most-frequent sponsors:

  - Michele Angrisano
  - Luca Falavigna
  - Scott Kittermann
  - Martin Pitt (my MOTU mentor)
  - Cesare Tirabassi

Thank you in advance,
Andrea Colangelo.


[1] https://launchpad.net/~warp10/+packages
[2] http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-games/
[3] https://launchpad.net/~motuscience
[4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NBS
[5] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=warp10@ubuntu.com