Core-Dev application for Mario Limonciello (superm1)

[Tim Gardner]

Mario Limonciello wrote:
> Hello everyone:
> 
> I'd like to apply to become and Ubuntu Core Developer.  I have attempted
> to write a few sentences for each of the major areas I focus around on
> my wiki page [1].  This probably doesn't speak for everything however,
> as when I look at my launchpad page [2], I seem to be involved with more.
> 
> I work on Ubuntu wearing multiple hats [3], with different requirements
> from each.  I come from a community hat working on the Mythbuntu project
> and all the extended teams touched by it.  I come from an OEM hat
> working on hardware enablement for Dell hardware.  I also like to work
> on general bugs that I come across that bother me personally but don't
> have a direct benefit to my other roles.  Naturally working on Ubuntu
> from so many fronts does cause a lot of overlap in the work that I end
> up doing.  Being a MOTU greatly benefits the Mythbuntu project, and is
> helpful for a few of the things that I end up working on personally.  A
> lot of  the work that I have done for enabling Dell hardware however
> ends up being in packages that are in main, so often I'll end up having
> to find a sponsor, or publish the changes to a bzr branch and ask for a
> merge.  Core-dev is the appropriate progression here to benefit the
> multiple roles I hold.
> 
> I have a special ACL for uploading DKMS to main right now [4], so I have
> been maintaining DKMS for a little bit in main in Intrepid.  For the
> past year it's been in Universe, so I have been able to upload using
> MOTU rights.
> 
> I'm attempting to CC people that I can remember have worked with me or
> sponsored packages that headed into main/restricted in the past:
>  * Martin Pitt (hal/fglrx/libsmbios)
>  * Evan Dandrea & Colin Watson (ubiquity/partman-auto/busybox)
>  * Luke Yelavich (bluez-utils, ekiga, gst-plugins-good0.10)
>  * Kees Cook (lirc/imagemagick/libsmbios)
>  * Tim Gardner (kernel, lum)
> 
> The ability to upload DKMS to main has helped to get the specification
> to move the binary drivers out of LRM and based on building kernel
> modules on the user's system more feasible to implement as I can solve
> DKMS bugs and upload myself.  I have been doing the uploads for fglrx
> throughout all of Intrepid purposely while the drivers have lived in
> multiverse.  Eventually the package will need to go to restricted at
> which point I would need to start looking for a sponsor or gain core-dev
> rights to do the uploads.
> 
> Through all of the different hats that I wear, my top priority is to
> make Ubuntu a great experience however I can.  I will likely continue to
> work with the same packages and teams that I've been currently working
> with.  I've worked long enough in the Ubuntu ecosystem that I understand
> the workflow throughly and can continue to be an asset.
> 
> Regards
> 
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/superm1
> [2] https://launchpad.net/~superm1 <https://launchpad.net/%7Esuperm1>
> [3] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/28688
> [4] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/134456/
> 
> -- 
> Mario Limonciello
> superm1 at ubuntu.com <mailto:superm1 at ubuntu.com>

+1 from me.

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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com