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

Who I am

My Ubuntu story

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

• gnome-keyring failing to start: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/813755

SRUs

• evolution: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/3.2.2-0ubuntu0.1

• libpst: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libpst/0.6.41-0ubuntu5.1

• network-manager: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/0.9.1.90-0ubuntu5

• gnome-bluetooth: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-bluetooth/3.2.0-0ubuntu2

NetworkManager

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

• parallel IPv4 and IPv6 addressing: git commit d5eee91

• dns updates fixes: git commit fc0739a

• add a debug helper for NM, MM, wpasupplicant: git commit 3863c87

• adding proper DUID support to NetworkManager: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/849994

• libnl route cache issues: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~network-manager/network-manager/ubuntu.head/revision/369

Transitions

• libnl3:

  • (trivial) netcf: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netcf/0.1.9-1ubuntu2

  • (trivial) bluez: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/4.96-3ubuntu4

  • (trivial, will need a sync) wpasupplicant: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpasupplicant/0.7.3-5ubuntu1

  • (sync) iw: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iw/3.2-1

  • (sync w/ patch submitted to Debian) quota: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quota/4.00-3

  • (merge + patch) keepalived: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/keepalived/1:1.2.2-3ubuntu1

  • (patch) ipvsadm: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ipvsadm/1:1.25.clean-1ubuntu5

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

• syslog messages caught by apport: https://code.launchpad.net/~mathieu-tl/apport/wifi_syslog_wpasupplicant/+merge/66427

• networkmanagement (LP: #839099)

• gnome-icon-symbolic 3.1.4: https://code.launchpad.net/~mathieu-tl/ubuntu/oneiric/gnome-icon-theme-symbolic/3.1.4/+merge/71281

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.

What I like least in Ubuntu

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