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Name: Ming Hua

Email: [email protected]

Lauchpad Profile: https://launchpad.net/people/minghua

I am a Chinese coming from mainland China. I am a Ph.D. student with materials science major, studying in Rice University, Houston, USA.

Past Work

I have been an Ubuntu user since warty preview. During the hoary and breezy development period I was mainly a testing user, reported bugs [18], helped a little on simplified Chinese translation and GCC transition [1,2].

During the dapper development I got involved with MOTU, helped on some merges/syncs of universe packages (mainly science related) [3-8]. My main work is taking care of the SCIM input method related packages in dapper, including testing and reporting bugs back into Debian [22-24], handling the merge/sync later in Ubuntu [9-14], fixing or helping to fix bugs [15-17], as well as writing up a wiki page for introduction of SCIM [20]. I also worked on a Chinese font package [19].

I am the Debian maintainer of a couple of SCIM related packages, and recently becoming co-maintainer of even more because of my involvement in Ubuntu [21]. I am the back-up coordinator of debian-installer's simplified Chinese (zh_CN) translation team [25], and am generally involved in the i18n/l10n of Chinese in Debian [26].

Reference Links

Ubuntu bugs

GCC transition: 1. [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/17042 libmath++], 2. [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/17976 arpack++]

MOTU merge for dapper: (Merge) 3. [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/grace6/+bug/4400 grace6]; (Sync) 4. [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/grace/+bug/4403 grace], 5. [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/libmath++/+bug/4087 libmath++], 6. [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/lmodern/+bug/5151 lmodern], 7. [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/stardict/+bug/5191 stardict], and 8. [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/octave2.1/+bug/5372 octave2.1]

SCIM related: (Fixed) 9. [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/scim/+bug/4805 sync scim from Debian], 10. [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/uim/+bug/5896 scim-uim crasher], 11. [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/5888 scim-canna rebuild], 12. [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/scim-pinyin/+bug/5893 scim-pinyin rebuild], 13. [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/scim-chewing/+bug/5894 scim-chewing rebuild], and 14. [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/scim-uim/+bug/5895 scim-uim rebuild]; (Reported/Commented/Helped) 15. [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/acroread/+bug/2246 crash in acroread] 16. [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/qt-x11-free/+bug/6606 IM modules missing in Qt] 17. [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/qt-x11-free/+bug/28590 Qt programs crash in GNOME]

Miscellaneous: 18. [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/14507 Chinese in installer] 19. [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xfonts-wqy/+bug/5568 xfonts-wqy merge]

Ubuntu wiki pages

20. ["InputMethods/SCIM"]

Debian work

Packages maintained and comaintained: 21. [http://qa.debian.org/[email protected] my Debian QA page]

SCIM related bugs: (I reported these bugs and/or provided these patches partly for getting the new packages enter Ubuntu in time) 22. [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=335957 scim-m17n ABI transition], 23. [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336270 scim-hangul ABI transition], 24. [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336556 scim-chewing FTBFS]

Chinese localization: 25. [http://people.debian.org/~bubulle/d-i/i18n-doc/languages.html debian-installer translation], 26. [http://alioth.debian.org/projects/chinese/ the Debian Alioth project for Chinese l10n work]

Plans

My interests for future Ubuntu work are in two big categories: Chinese i18n/l10n (most importantly input method part) and science related packages (mainly computational physics/chemistry and LaTeX).

Being the Debian maintainer of scim and other SCIM related packages, I would like to keep them in good shape for Ubuntu. I also plan to look after other SCIM related packages I don't maintain and communicate/collaborate with the Debian maintainers. I would also like to try improving the SCIM packages in Ubuntu and making installing/using input method in Ubuntu easier and more user-friendly, although I most likely would need others' help for that goal.

I don't plan to do much translation work myself, but since I am involved in the Chinese l10n work in Debian, I believe I would help communication of the Debian Chinese community and Ubuntu Chinese community. I also feel the different Chinese community (China mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong) should talk and work with each other a little more, and I hope I can do something to improve that.

Science related packages usually have a small user base, and even smaller developer/maintainer base. So I feel it's quite important to get connected with the Debian science community. JordanMantha created ["MOTUScience"] team to achieve exactly that, and I also think this is a wonderful opportunity to show that Ubuntu and Debian can collaborate well. I would like to work in this team and help improving the quality of science-related packages in Ubuntu.

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