I, Дмитрий Ледков, hereby state my intention to apply for Core Developer status.

Who I am

I am a recentish electronic engineering graduate. I started my career as a software developer with free and open-source projects. I worked for credativ (a global Debian company) for 15 months as a consultant. I was providing 3rd level support to sysadmins, doing troubleshooting/profiling/sysadmin work and coding in python. In May, I joined canonical to work in FoundationsTeam.

My Ubuntu story

I have started using Ubuntu during my university studies because of: TeXLive, editors, EDA tools (PCB layout, VHDL, Verilog, etc), compilers. Later I started fixing small things, maintaining a few packages, eventually becoming a DD...

My involvement

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

Areas of work

Broadly my interest lies in C, Python, Gtk+ stacks. I happened to poke C++ stuff as well. I am one of the leaders of the Debian Crosswire Packaging Team and I actively (somewhat) participate in the Debian python [apps/modules], science and games teams. I am involved in the OpenERP / openobject upstream & addons development. For a while I wanted to get into the lower stack. Thanks to my new job, I will be working on core operating system components, such as various file systems and the installers.

Things I could do better

English is not my native language, and inadvertently I make blatant errors, use awkward grammar and produce lost-in-translation innuendoes. These sometimes end up in commit messages and changelog entries.

Plans for the future

General

• Make RAID/LUKS/LVM rock in ubuntu
• Make same rock in ubiquity
• Make a cunning plan to fix my English grammar

What I like least in Ubuntu

• the time it takes to dist-upgrade my machine

• * Fix this with: btrfs? lvm-snapshots & disable fsync? debdiffs? magic pixie dust?

Comments

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Endorsements

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SteveLangasek

General feedback

In the short time Dmitrijs has been with the Foundations team so far, I've sponsored uploads for him of sudo, lvm, grub2, and e2fsprogs, and am working now on sponsoring mdadm as well. What in another might seem like audacity for tackling such a string of core packages back to back, in Dmitrijs is merely cool competence. As often as not when commenting on his merge requests, it turns out that I'm wrong and he's right, which is just as it should be.

As Dmitrijs is already a Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member, and Ubuntu Universe Contributor, I have no concerns with his understanding of technical and social policies regarding the Ubuntu archive and fully endorse his application for core-dev.

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