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I'm a developer in the Ubuntu Desktop team for Canonical. My job is to maintain NetworkManager (and related components) and help with the general maintenance of the desktop package. I contribute directly to a number of different projects such as NetworkManager, concordance/congruity, through bug reports, patches, or maintaining packages in Debian and Ubuntu.
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I've been using Ubuntu since about the Hoary release, and was suggested that I contribute to Ubuntu by some of my former coworkers because of my ideas and some of the bugs that I noticed in some systems (like NetworkManager), and patches that I had proposed. I've been contributing to Ubuntu since Jaunty.
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I need to get more involved in sponsoring uploads, which I can already do as a member of the Desktop team. So far it has mostly been centered around just merge requests for NetworkManager and ModemManager. I need to get more involved in sponsoring uploads, which I can already do as a member of the Desktop team. So far it has mostly been centered around just merge requests for NetworkManager and ModemManager, but I need to get more confortable with reviewing others' work.
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Things move very fast and we have relatively little time to turn around in terms of including new features in a release. This has especially been the case in Oneiric for IPv6 support which initially looked pretty good at UDS for the desktop, but we needed to add a bunch of fixes or feature improvements to NetworkManager to make it really rock... except those take a fair amount of time to get just right, to test, etc.
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I do believe that Acceptance Criteria discussions and work is going to help with this a great deal.

I, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre, apply for Ubuntu Core Developer.

Name

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre

Launchpad Page

http://launchpad.net/~mathieu-tl

Who I am

I'm a developer in the Ubuntu Desktop team for Canonical. My job is to maintain NetworkManager (and related components) and help with the general maintenance of the desktop package. I contribute directly to a number of different projects such as NetworkManager, concordance/congruity, through bug reports, patches, or maintaining packages in Debian and Ubuntu.

My Ubuntu story

I've been using Ubuntu since about the Hoary release, and was suggested that I contribute to Ubuntu by some of my former coworkers because of my ideas and some of the bugs that I noticed in some systems (like NetworkManager), and patches that I had proposed. I've been contributing to Ubuntu since Jaunty.

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

SRUs

NetworkManager

I've written patches to NetworkManager that were included upstream (or that are in the process of); the latest, most relevant:

Transitions

Debian

I maintain concordance, congruity, acct, ethos and emerillon in Debian, along with helping with the maintenance of connman. I've also recently contributed to updating libnl3 from 3.0 to 3.2.3, with the help of the libnl3 maintainer, Heiko Stuebner.

bzr Merge Proposals

Areas of work

I am mostly known for maintaining NetworkManager and the related packages (modemmanager, wpasupplicant, usb-modeswitch, etc.), but I also spend time dealing with lower-level or more global networking aspects such as libnl3 lately and dealing with the associated transition. I also maintain desktop packages based on current needs in the Desktop team, and especially look after the Evolution stack.

Things I could do better

I tend to be slow at moving patches to Debian; even though I feel this is consitantly better I now keep forgetting to properly credit patches as coming from Ubuntu when they are submitted to Debian.

The same I guess applies to patches submitted upstream to, e.g. NetworkManager; I find some to be missing proper "credit" as being done by me for Ubuntu or for Canonical, with the need to ask it to be fixed after the fact. Proper automatization could help there, but using multiple email accounts still makes the process cumbersome.

Plans for the future

I need to get more involved in sponsoring uploads, which I can already do as a member of the Desktop team. So far it has mostly been centered around just merge requests for NetworkManager and ModemManager, but I need to get more confortable with reviewing others' work.

What I like least in Ubuntu

Things move very fast and we have relatively little time to turn around in terms of including new features in a release. This has especially been the case in Oneiric for IPv6 support which initially looked pretty good at UDS for the desktop, but we needed to add a bunch of fixes or feature improvements to NetworkManager to make it really rock... except those take a fair amount of time to get just right, to test, etc.

I do believe that Acceptance Criteria discussions and work is going to help with this a great deal.

Comments

If you'd like to comment, but are not the applicant or a sponsor, do it here. Don't forget to sign with @SIG@.

Endorsements

As a sponsor, just copy the template below, fill it out and add it to this section.

TEMPLATE

== <SPONSORS NAME> ==
=== General feedback ===
## Please fill us in on your shared experience. (How many packages did you sponsor? How would you judge the quality? How would you describe the improvements? Do you trust the applicant?)

=== Specific Experiences of working together ===
''Please add good examples of your work together, but also cases that could have handled better.''
=== Areas of Improvement ===

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