MOTU Application for Stefan Ebner (sebner)

[Stephan Hermann]

Good Morning,

even when I'm not on the direct list of sponsors, IMHO I was one of the
very first people of MOTU who worked with Stefan since he started to
contribute to Ubuntu (when I still used his old Nick ;-))

So, for a start: A +1 from me, without any problems.

We need young blood...:)

Regards,

\sh


On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 21:11 +0100, Stefan Ebner wrote:
> Ahoi mighty MOTU-Council.
>  
> You may know me from movies like:
>  "The spamming monster"
>  "The spamming monster returns"  
>  "The scary irc hello bot"
>  
> And for the nostalgia fans "The boy from hell", "To hell on road 195".
>  
> But seriously folks!
> Consider this as my official MOTU Application.
> This great tool by Emanuele Gentili says that I made 151 uploads to
> intrepid and LP says that I made 276 uploads since I started contributing  
> (hardy + intrepid altogether). I packaged 2 apps from scratch  
> (unfortunately one is not in debian yet and another is in Debian  
> but packaged by someone else (I work with the maintainer to improve his
> package so we can sync), so no bonus points  :) ), the rest are merges and syncs  
> and some bugfix uploads.
>  
> Wikipage: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StefanEbner
> LP: https://edge.launchpad.net/~sebner
>  
> I started contributing regularly starting with the 01.01.2008  
> so I nearly worked 2 full cycles on ubuntu =)
>  
> WORK:
>  
> As I already mentioned I did a lot work in merging and syncing so I want
> to  
> give you an idea what (famous) packages I already touched:
>  
> - wxwidgets2.6
> - monodevelop
> - courier
> - wordpress
> - beagle
> - audacious
>  
> Without doubt (also generally speaking) not every debdiff was perfect  
> in the first try but I tried to fix issues as soon as possible and all  
> in all it wasn't that bad I suppose.
>  
> An anecdote:  
> Once Scott Kitterman told to me: Don't try to sync the entire archive.
>  
> To me it seems we are like a magnet. I want to merge/sync as much as
> possible, as long as possible and he's focusing on stopping early to  
> stabilise everything. I'm of the opinion when we meet in the middle  
> we are fine. ;D
>  
> 
> MISTAKES:
>  
> Like everybody did so also I made a lot mistakes, especially at the
> beginning. I still make mistakes now and I won't promise to make none in future  
> but I can promise that I'll try everything to fix everything I break.
> Of course I know the golden rule: "Testbuild everything".  
> I ignored it sometimes and the result was often bad and embarrassing so
> trust me, I won't make this mistake again.
>  
> Another issue: As merges and syncs were my passion I also tried to
> continue with them in late hardy cycle by filing many FFe's. Later I finally
> understood why every MOTU means with "use FFe's carefully". This is surely one reason  
> why I filed very little FFe during intrepid cycle, another reason is  
> that there weren't that many interesting packages to sync/merge ^^
> 
> I think I learned from the mistakes I made and I won't upload anything
> a) without testbuilding and b) without being sure  
> that everything is OK. (Then of course I would ask another MOTU for a
> review).
>  
> 
> Often the MOTU-Council asks what are the goals for the future so here
> are mine:
>  
> * Of course I will join u-u-s:
>   Somehow it's already "normal" for new MOTU's to join u-u-s but it  
>   should more be like an honour. I mean, a lot people who use Ubuntu  
>   want to give something back so they start translating,.. or with MOTU
>   stuff. So, without this mighty guys from u-u-s we (including me) wouldn't be
>   able to contribute. Besides, I also want to join u-u-s for another reason.  
>   I pretty often spammed u-u-s so I'll make up for it.
>  
> * I want to improve the situation with C# related stuff:
>   As I'm personally interested in this (great) programming language  
>   I want also to make sure that we have a good a relationship with Debian  
>   in this area. For example some days ago I started to help Debian guys  
>   to a) update b) resyncronize with Ubuntu. So with some luck f-spot can
>   be synced again when Unstable opens again.  
>   (Last time it was syncable was on hardy at 2008-01-17).  
>   Also, when I gained more skills I'll join Debian-cli-apps team.  
>  
> * Sync/merges:
>   Well, everybody knows this was and is my passion so I heavily want to  
>   continue focusing on this area. Another goal is of course to make as many
>   merges to syncs again as possible. But don't worry now and then I'll
>   also package new stuff from scratch (and give it to another MOTU for review).  
>   Furthermore I'll also do more bug-fixing at the end of development
>   cycles (what I've only started with intrepid now a little bit). At least I
>   tried to reduce the RC-bugs.
>  
> * Be more active helping other guys:
>   I'll try to answer more question that are fired in IRC or mail.
>   It seems haven't done a lot of it so far     :(    
>  
> 
> Major Sponsors (only three though):
>  
>     Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz):  
>     He was and still is my mentor somehow (not officially though).  
>     He always helped me a lot and it is always really funny with him.  
>     THANK YOU.  
>     
>     Daniel Holbach (dholbach):  
>     Well, I don't need to say anything. We all know him, we all love him.  
>     He is just Mister AWESOME.
>     
>     Michael Biena (geser):  
>     He never got tired to sync my (massive) sync requests.  
>     He developed a Sync-ACK script but I think he's a robot :P
> 
> I want to thank all of my major sponsors and any other sponsor of me =)
> Of course I'm open to answer any question. =)
>  
> 
> PS.: As usual CC'ing my sponsors and some others that may want to add a
>      comment.
> 
>  
> PPS.: ETOOMUCHPRESSUREBYLUCA ,  
> I don't have any money left to pay him to upload my stuff (Y. R. B) :P
> 
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