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| Hey. I'm Iain and I'm just starting to get involved with MOTUing. I'm a final year Computer Science student at the University of Nottingham, England. | Just a guy who's too lazy to maintain an up-to-date wiki page. |
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| [[https://launchpad.net/~laney/|Here]]'s me on Launchpad, and [[http://orangesquash.org.uk|here]] is my blog. | Here's some static information. |
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| = Current aim = | Born in 1986, I spent 19 years in Cambridgeshire, England before flying the nest and moving a little way north to the wonderful city of Nottingham. Here I studied at the university and obtained a degree in Computer Science. At the end of this, I decided that I hadn't suffered enough and embarked on a PhD course. I'm working in the area of Functional Programming and Type Theory. |
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| At this point in the Intrepid cycle, I'm picking up and doing a few merges. I've also got two packages in REVU, reviewers welcome... ;) | In the Ubuntu world, I started using in around 2006ish, when I built a new machine and decided that Vista wasn't going to get anywhere near it. I first started contributing 2008, with [[https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-tools/1.0.15-2ubuntu2|an upload sponsored by dtchen]]. I became a MOTU in February 2009 — if memory serves then it was actually St. Valentine's day, how fitting. :). |
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| = Bugs = I don't really have a favourite package or area yet, preferring to just pick up bugs that I think I can do and try and solve them (with the help of the ''awesome'' #ubuntu-motu!) Bitesize preferred at the moment, although I've just started to branch out a bit... == Patches accepted == ||'''Number'''||'''Package'''||'''Title'''|| ||[[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-tools/+bug/159727|Bug #159727]]||alsa-tools||all desktop files in alsa-tool-gui package do not specify icons|| ||[[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fet/+bug/191574|Bug #191574]]||fet||Doesn't have a .desktop file|| ||[[https://launchpad.net/bugs/188489|Bug #188489]]||darcs||darcs 1.0.9 FTBFS in Hardy|| ||[[https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mrtg/+bug/162426|Bug #162426]]||mrtg||Purging MRTG removes data from /var/www/mrtg|| ||[[https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ettercap/+bug/199206|Bug #199206]]||ettercap||Ettercap-gtk needs to be launched as root|| ||[[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224581|Bug #224581]]||mrtg||Please merge mrtg 2.16.1-2 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)|| ||[[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/230442|Bug #230442]]||darcs||Please merge darcs 1.0.9-1.1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)|| == Goals == ||'''Goal'''||'''Status'''|| ||Fix a bitesize bug||Done|| ||Fix a non-bitesize bug||Done|| ||Update a package||Done some syncs and merges|| ||Package something new||[[http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?package=btnx|Two]] related [[http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?package=btnx-config|packages]] in REVU|| ||Get MOTU status||Long way off ;)|| ---- [[CategoryMOTULog]] ---- CategoryHomepage |
These days I contribute mainly in Debian. I'm in the pkg-mono/pkg-cli-apps/pkg-cli-libs team, working on Mono and related applications/libraries. I'm also in pkg-haskell, working on Haskell libraries and applications (related to my day work). I believe very strongly that the absolute best way to contribute to Ubuntu is to contribute to Debian. Packaging teams are amazing: groups of people with specialist knowledge about their domain. Join one. Cherish it, nurture it and we will all have better packages and ultimately a better quality distribution. Debian is where the best minds work. Ubuntu is just the icing on the cake. :) |
Just a guy who's too lazy to maintain an up-to-date wiki page.
Here's some static information.
Born in 1986, I spent 19 years in Cambridgeshire, England before flying the nest and moving a little way north to the wonderful city of Nottingham. Here I studied at the university and obtained a degree in Computer Science. At the end of this, I decided that I hadn't suffered enough and embarked on a PhD course. I'm working in the area of Functional Programming and Type Theory.
In the Ubuntu world, I started using in around 2006ish, when I built a new machine and decided that Vista wasn't going to get anywhere near it. I first started contributing 2008, with an upload sponsored by dtchen. I became a MOTU in February 2009 — if memory serves then it was actually St. Valentine's day, how fitting. :).
These days I contribute mainly in Debian. I'm in the pkg-mono/pkg-cli-apps/pkg-cli-libs team, working on Mono and related applications/libraries. I'm also in pkg-haskell, working on Haskell libraries and applications (related to my day work). I believe very strongly that the absolute best way to contribute to Ubuntu is to contribute to Debian. Packaging teams are amazing: groups of people with specialist knowledge about their domain. Join one. Cherish it, nurture it and we will all have better packages and ultimately a better quality distribution. Debian is where the best minds work. Ubuntu is just the icing on the cake. 
IainLane (last edited 2010-10-20 10:37:37 by franc)