I, Mattia Rizzolo, apply for MOTU.

Who I am

I'm an Italian guy, from the Padua countryside. Currently I'm 18 and I follow the Scientific Technology High School. I plan to go to study computer engineering.

My Ubuntu story

I got in touch with Ubuntu in the 2009 and an year later I started to help people in my loco (through the forum, ML, IRC,...). I chose to help the spreading of Ubuntu helping the translation of Full Circle Magazine (I currently coordinate the translation as an admin of the team). Later I chose to help with bugs, with translating to find a way to help Ubuntu growing. During the 2013 spring I applied to the LoCo membership, during the autumn to the Ubuntu membership, obtaining both.
I started to contribute to Ubuntu development in the 2013 summer, during the Saucy cycle, without any precise goal but I tried to get experience in most of the development processes, through merges, syncs, fixes and SRUs, without focusing on a specific area of development. Currently I'm doing the some.

My involvement

Currently I'm not involved in any particular team, I'm doing general QA activities, such as merges, small fixes and so.
I maintain a couple of (new) packages in Debian. I'm not (yet) a DD nor a DM, though.

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

I meticulously collect all my work here

Cool things are:

• LP#1246886 - a lighttpd merge (cumunication failure, though)

• LP#1281283 - a liferea merge (had to edit a lot of patches manually)

• LP#1285299 - a varnich merge (where I managed to incorporate LP#1014793 and LP#1284095, but I faced an autopkgtest issue I wasn't able to address)

• LP#1283459 - a xscreensaver merge (where I manage to reduce the ubuntu delta, but I caused LP#1319433)

Please take a look at this page, maybe you can note that the harder work is for Debian, because of ↓.

Areas of work

I work mainly with Andrea Colangelo, a "guy" from my LoCo, DD and MOTU. Under his suggestion I took a look at merges and QA aspects, and I liked them.
I aim to reduce the delta beetween Debian and Ubuntu, so if I note a delta that can be applied to Debian I submit it (look at #707882, for example). So I think I'll work mainly in this direction, without taking a defined subset of packages, at least in the foreseeable future.

Things I could do better

I don't see anything I can do better.
Any criticism or suggestion is welcome here, from any point of view. I'd like advice from anyone has them

Plans for the future

General

1. Do my best on the sponsors-queue to keep it clean by reviewing and sponsoring patches (of course)
2. Decrease the delta between Debian and Ubuntu. The mother is always the mother, we have to take care of her!
3. Anything I'll can do to make Ubuntu better!

What I like least in Ubuntu

I think the are a lot of devs that not forward adequately patches to debian and/or upstream. I'll convince them to do so.

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