[ubuntu-studio-devel] Gaining Wiki Edit Permissions

[Mike Lococo]

Hi,

I've seen the calls for assistance in maintaining ubuntu-studio. I'm a long time user who has never contributed, I think it's the best live distribution available for audio work, and I want to help ensure that it continues to be available. I've maintained small open-source projects, been an active community member in big ones, done some deb packaging work, and know my way around linux internals very well. I've never contributed to Debian or Ubuntu beyond bug-reports, though. At this time, I'm not offering to take over maintainership or join the proposed council, but I'd like to level up my ability to contribute by finding work that needs doing and doing it.

My first step was to read the the wiki. There's a lot of great info there. But I found some mistakes (the latest version is listed as 15.10) and I think I can improve the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/JoinTheTeam page by adding a "My First Contribution" section with a little hand-holding on how to do a simple things like make your first wiki edit or triage your first bug (once I figure out how to do that).

I found that I don't have wiki edit access though. I read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpContents and now my application to join ubuntu-wiki-editors is pending at https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wiki-editors. My Launchpad and Ubuntu One account has been idle for years, though, and I'm a little worried my application will languish or be rejected because someone thinks I'm a bot or a hacked account. I'M NOT! I'm resurrecting old accounts to try to help here. If anyone sees anything wrong with my application, let me know, and if there's a danger of it being rejected and there's anything a contributor with more history can do to vouch for me I'd appreciate it.

Here's my launchpad account: https://launchpad.net/~mikelococo and you can see it pending approval at https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wiki-editors.

My next goal will be to try to get permission to triage bugs. I assume I'll figure out how to do that while trolling around the wiki, but if anyone wants to jump start the permission process I'm all ears.

Cheers,
Lococo