Core Developer application for Michael Casadevall (NCommander/sonicmctails)

[Michael Casadevall]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Soren Hansen <soren at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 08:08:56PM -0500, Michael Casadevall wrote:
>> I'm writing today to apply for Core Developer status in Ubuntu.
>
> This is truly a tricky one :)
>
> There is no doubt in my mind that you're a very technically skilled
> developer and that your areas of expertise are many and vast.
>
> However, I do share some of the concerns raised elsewhere in this
> thread. Being a generalist and being able to pick up any given project
> and work on it is a very good quality (one which you very clear
> possess).  However, as you point out yourself, "there is a difference
> assisting in helping a project, and being a sustained contributor".
> Only sustained contributors are expected to know the ins and outs of the
> project, while someone assisting in helping a project can focus on
> discrete tasks and have their work scrutinised by the others to see if
> it fits properly into the style and goal of the project.
>
>
> Ubuntu is a huge project. There are literally thousands of packages you
> can work on, but that does not automatically give you the broad
> perspective and an overview of Ubuntu as a whole.  You've done awesome
> work on many different areas, most of which very technically
> challenging. However, I'm not convinced you've obtained the broad
> perspective needed for core-dev yet.
>
> I'm happy to be proven wrong, though..
>
> For instance, can you outline some of the ways in which porting work can
> interfere with releases of Ubuntu on the officially supported
> architectures?
>

Sure, porting work can tie up buildds which prevent things like d-i
builds from taking place. For instance, if I was to upload OOo with a
portability fix, it would completely tie up the builders, preventing
d-i or other more important packages from being uploaded. Futhermore,
the release team would also have to respin the images since the
updated package would need to be included to keep everything
consistant. It is for this release we have freezes, and require that
the archive be in a semi-stable state while alpha/beta/rcs are spun.

However, due to the feedback of the MOTU council, and my sponsors, I'm
withdrawing my core developer application since at this point I've
gathered the necessary feedback I would not have otherwise gotten, and
now have a good timetable of when I should consider reapplying
(assuming of course that archive reorganization does not take place
first.).
Michael

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