I, Mahyuddin Susanto, apply for universe-contributor.

Who I am

• I'm 25 geek come from Indonesia, i'm electrical enggineering with informatics contentations.

My Ubuntu story

• I use since Dapper, before using Ubuntu i use Debian woody and Suse. i'm interest at packaging since 2007, and i was working packaging stuff at blankonlinux (Ubuntu based) which modify packages coming from Ubuntu and Debian. i was modify a lot a packages (if i'm not forget) like: firefox, openoffice( not yet because we have package to rebranding it), debian-installer (not yet supported since BlankOn 5). I have a own package:

  • - aspell-id (now in ubuntu archive)

    - zakat-calc (still ITP in debian see http://git.debian.org/?p=debian-islamic/packages/zakat-calc.git;a=summary)

  Now i have maintained sabily-packages and other packages coming from debian-islamic

My involvement

Examples of my work / Things I'm very proud of

Areas of work

• Themes/font related
• Mozilla Firefox
• Mozilla extensions
• Server Packaging related
• Library problems

Things I could do better

• Make contribution to upstream
• Always log in in irc and communicate each others to upgrading knowledge
• I'm sloppy!

• Improving my english

Plans for the future

General

• I want help beginners about packaging, because i have problems when i start contributing into Ubuntu development. especially who don't speak English

• Make better documentation! yes i have problem at at beginning. example changelog stanza what we must and what me must not write into changelog.

• Spend times at mailling list or irc, most discussions into other is one way to improving knowledge

What I like least in Ubuntu

• I think mentoring program is not active now, we have own lists and why we don't use it?
• I think packaging technical is very urgent and must documented
• Relations debian and ubuntu especially new member must improvement, i mean senior member who stay in debian developer/maintainer must teach junior member about how to contribute to debian or providing mentoring. i can't imagine if we working alone in debian but we work together in ubuntu, we must always working together

Comments

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Endorsements

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Stefano Rivera

General feedback

Haven't done many sponsorships for Mahyuddin yet, hopefully there will be more, but he's been active on IRC, and making good progress on the linker-change induced FTBFSs.

Specific Experiences of working together

Areas of Improvement

I should have edited both changelog entries on upload. Mea culpa. The work was fine, otherwise.

I'd like to see some more merges, Mahyuddin definitely needs some practice here.

Doko prodded me, as Mahyuddin was not tagging patches forwarded to Debian correctly. It looks like he's now getting to grips with it.

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