I, Lorenzo De Liso, apply for core-dev.

Who I am

My name is Lorenzo De Liso and I'm italian. I'm an IT security consultant for a datacenter and a developer for a company (I know the C++, perl and a bit of python, still learning) and I'm a student too. I'm an Ubuntu user since 4 years (with the intrepid release) and a great fan of this awesome community. I have used many Linux distributions (both on desktop and server), and bsd too but Ubuntu is the most appropiate for me.

My Ubuntu story

One day I was looking for Ubuntu help when I seen the Ubuntu Italian web site (WOW), then I have started to contribute to the Italian community for a bit (in the translations, in the support to other users in #ubuntu-it, creating new documentation). After that I wanted to get involved in the Ubuntu development so I started to triage bugs (I joined the 5-a-day team), write & test patches, do packaging work, merge .. I joined the italian development team, the ubuntu bugcontrol and the ubuntu reviewers team. I liked that since the first time: the debian packaging is very fun and with the help of the available documentation and #ubuntu-motu guys I was able to do my first packaging work. I'm a member of the Ubuntu Italian community as well (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-it-members/+members)

My involvement

I'm involved in many ways of the Ubuntu development: I like to keep packages updated doing merge or requesting sync, package update, solve the FTBFS packages, the bug fix and obviously maintain packages in Debian and Ubuntu as well, I'm an Ubuntu MOTU.

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

Initially I have started to do the packaging work *just* for ubuntu, but my idea was changed with the time. First I went to upload all packages in Ubuntu, but now I'm becoming familiar with mentors.debian.net to get my packages uploaded in Debian and so in Ubuntu as well. Currently I'm the maintainer of the autotrash and gliv packages in Debian (hope to maintain more in the future!) and of the package ppa-purge package in Ubuntu (it's a native Ubuntu package). Also, I'm working with the cryptsetup team to get the Ubuntu changes there and trying to co-maintain it.

Areas of work

I'm proud to work with the Ubuntu community and Debian collaborating to maintain packages there and keep them updated.

Touched packages in the core packageset:

• irssi
• liferea
• hostname
• ubuntuone-client
• logrotate
• whois
• unixodbc
• manpages
• file
• gksu
• wget
• pppconfig
• auctex
• nss-mdns
• netbase
• iputils
• mime-support
• popularity-contest
• sensible-utils
• rsyslog
• iptables
• bash-completion
• apr
• dmraid
• cryptsetup
• xterm
• nano
• asciidoc
• mono
• sudo
• nfs-utils
• procps
• cron
• iso-codes
• e2fsprogs
• pygments
• debootstrap
• xft
• libusb

Touched packages in other packagesets:

• ubuntu-extras-keyring
• gdebi
• keepalived
• libapache2-mod-python
• nbd
• acpid
• ipsec-tools
• dictd
• igerman98

Work with Debian:

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602406

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=601870

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=603160

(See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?submitter=blackz%40ubuntu.com and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?submitter=blackzldl%40gmail.com for other examples).

Things I could do better

There's a lot of stuff that I could do better, but principally I could do better all packaging-related tasks (bug fix, merge, sync, bug triaging ..), that means improve and collaborate with ubuntu and I like this, I like improve ubuntu day-by-day.

Plans for the future

General

Well, there's a long list for things to do in the future for Ubuntu, up in the list there's improve Ubuntu and keep the sponsoring queue (both for universe and main) clean and improve the packages fixing bugs in them. But that's not all: I want to help new contributors to join the Ubuntu development team (e.g. MOTU) by helping them (I'm part of the Developer mentoring reception). I have put that in the "Plans for the future" because we're reorganizing the team, the documentation, etc. I will do my best to be carefully when touching core items (but this is worth for all packages in general :). I also plan to become a Debian Developer.

What I like least in Ubuntu

• The collaboration between Ubuntu and Debian: We have to collaborate closely with Debian as Debian is our upstream; for example we should always forward non-specific Ubuntu changes to Debian. Doing so we will improve Debian and minimize the Ubuntu delta. We should encourage Ubuntu contributing developers to collaborate with Debian too but at the same time encourage the Ubuntu contributing Developers to contribute to Ubuntu.

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