Universe Contributors Application for Michael Casadevall (NCommander/sonicmctails)

[Christopher Halse Rogers]

On 9/5/08, Michael Casadevall <sonicmctails at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  To the MOTU Council,
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>  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.
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>  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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+1 from me, as per my agreement when Michael was hunting down a
particularly crazy evolution-sharp FTBFS problem for me.  But I
thought this was going to be a MOTU application!

Michael is active in the community, has a fine technical grasp of a
wide variety of areas, and quite clearly has already contributed
significantly to universe (and main, and Ubuntu in general) for
Intrepid.