MOTU Application for Guillaume Martres (smarter)

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:30:04 +0200 Guillaume Martres <smarter3 at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>Dear MOTU Council,
>
>After some pressures from my sponsors, I finally had guts to apply for 
MOTU, so 
>here it is ;)
>
>I've been using Ubuntu for three years now and got involved in Kubuntu 
>development last year. I started by contributing some patches[1] and after 
>learning more about packaging, uploaded new packages to REVU. I now have a 
>pretty solid knowledge of packaging and  try to help others when possible, 
>I've also recently gained KDE SVN access and I'm now both an upstream and 
a 
>downstream developer :).
>
>Some packages I've made and some uploads:
>- kde4-style-bespin, one of the packages I've made
>- desktop-effects-kde 0.4.1
>- extremetuxracer, because I don't only do Qt/KDE packages ;)
>- devscripts 2.10.26ubuntu5, thanks to Paul Sladen for his help
>- kvkbd 0.5.99-0ubuntu1, I ported kvkbd from kde3 to kde4 to reduce the 
number 
>of Qt3 apps in Kubuntu 8.10, I also refreshed the packaging
>
>I'm a big fan of cdbs and the use of vcs for packaging[2], but that's 
probably 
>because we only use that in Medibuntu ;)
>
>I've CCed my principal sponsors and would like to thank them a lot for the 
>help, feedback, support and motivation they gave me. I also want to thank 
all 
>the Ubuntu Developers for there work and for the amazing community we have.
>
>My Launchpad page: https://launchpad.net/~smarter
>My wiki page: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/GuillaumeMartres
>
>I'll be glad to answer any question you have.
>
>Cheers,
>Guillaume Martres
>
>[1] - like the fix to this annoying bug: 
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/kdebase/+bug/57666
>[2] - https://code.launchpad.net/~smarter/
>

Additionally he helped me out with some annoying Eric/Python QT4 integration problems.  I'm 
still out of town, so I don't have access to my notes, but my recollection of his packaging is 
good.  Plus one from me.

Scott K