Universe Contributors Application for Michael Casadevall (NCommander/sonicmctails)

[Michael Casadevall]

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I considered applying straight for MOTU, and while I would want to,
I've only been here for two months, and while there are no (longer)
any specific time restraints on becoming a member or an MOTU, I felt
that my application would have been rejected. If you (i.e.) my
sponsors feel that I should be applying for MOTU vs. UDC, then I will
ask the council to review my application for that.
Michael

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On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Christopher Halse Rogers
<chalserogers at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/5/08, Michael Casadevall <sonicmctails at gmail.com> wrote:
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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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> +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.
>