Universe Contributors Application for Michael Casadevall (NCommander/sonicmctails)

[Michael Casadevall]

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To the MOTU Council,

I'm writing today to apply for Ubuntu Universe Contributor's status,
I've been involved in the Ubuntu community for a little under two
months, and have been working on handing mostly FTBFS fixes, the
gnat-4.2 Hardy transition, Launchpad integration with REVU, Hardy
backports, Ubuntuwire, archive rebuilds, Xubuntu Xfce snapshot
packaging and seed management, GNOME updates, KDE portability fixes,
and general packaging tasks. My intent is not to brag, but simply to
list that I don't work in one specific section, but I act as a jack of
all trades, being able to do any task that is needed to help improve
Ubuntu.

Anyway, I'm an active Xubuntu developer, and I've done some work in
packaging the current set of Xfce snapshots which will become the
basis of future releases, and I am a REVU hacker and administrator,
having given it most of its current look and feel (for better or
worse), and modifying it to support on-demand key syncing removing the
need for the REVU uploaders group, and having single signon between
REVU and Launchpad via OpenID. I'm a backport tester, and I have done
some work in lighting up the current backport queues by testing them
all in bulk.

I'm a Debian New Maitaniner (P&P is completed, T&S is half done,
waiting on T&S2), and I'm active on the Debian m68k port as a release
manager for our unoffical lenny m68k release on Debian Ports, and I
maintain two packages in Debian, with two more in the NEW queue
(code::blocks, and pangomm, the former accepted in intrepid, and the
later in the NEW queue).

As for the future of Ubuntu, I've been interested in doing porting and
security work for Ubuntu, and I have a strange dream to port Ubuntu to
the Motorola 680x0, but at the moment, its just a dream, with no
serious intent. I do wish to see Ubuntu's ports extended to the full
range of Debian architectures, and even beyond that, such as SH4 or
m32r.

My Launchpad Page: https://edge.launchpad.net/~sonicmctails
My Wiki Page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MichaelCasadevall

I've notified some of my major sponsors:

Scott Kitterman (ScottK)
Steve Kowalik (StevenK)
Cody Somerville (cody-somerville)
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)
Kees Cook (kees)
Nathan Handler (nhandler)

Michael

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