I, Miriam España Acebal, apply for upload rights for Ubuntu Core Developer.

I am applying because I would like:

• to contribute to Ubuntu more efficiently by reducing the burden on my sponsors and, therefore, eliminating delays in getting my work sponsored.
• to be able to help beyond the server set
• to mentor new packagers-to-be (in the different programs i.e, patch pilot/whatever)

Who I am

I'm a Distro Software Engineer (a.k.a. packaging staff) at Canonical Public Cloud Team (a.k.a. CPC), but when I joined Canonical three years ago, I started at the Server Team. I am attached to the Azure Cloud, so I'm on the front line of dealing with packaging work that involves Microsoft software, like .NET or the WALinuxAgent, but not exclusively.

In my successful and previous application for Server Set package rights you can see who I am from a career point of view. Now, I can give you an insight about what I like to do (WIP).

My Ubuntu story

This time, in going to tell you how I feel being part of Ubuntu, since I already told the story of how I got here.

My involvement

These are all my sponsored uploads by other Ubuntu/Canonical members:

Graphically, here you can see in which processes I have been involved:

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

From the [https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/ubuntu-sponsorships.cgi?render=html&sponsor=&sponsor_search=name&sponsoree=Miriam*&sponsoree_search=name|Ubuntu Sponsorship Miner]], I got the here divided in specific processes:

• BUG:

• COMPONENT-MISMATCHED:

• FTBFS:

• NEW:

• MERGE:

• MIR:

• MRE:

• SRU:

• UPGRADE:

Areas of work

* WALinuxAgent: This is one of the main packages of the Azure cloud. Last cycle, I was nominated as the Ubuntu maintainer of this package that we take directly from upstream. I recently finished the upgrade in Oracular, and the package is almost ready to land for the LTSs. For the ESM versions, I'm training a teammate to avoid being myself a bottleneck in case of Out-of-office situations.

* DPDK MREs: I belong to the CPC team, Azure cloud, but I'm a kind of "cloud friend" for the Server Team, which participates in practically all the normal aspects of a distro-server engineer (triage, bug fixing, +1 Maintenance, ...). If I have to say a specialization there, in the past three cycles, I've been doing the dpdk packages MRE for the stable releases.

* libmail-dmarc-perl: Also on behalf of the Server Team, I drove this Main Inclusion Request that initially needed more than forty packages to be pushed through the process. Digging deeper into it and the needs of the package that used it as a dependency (spamassassin), I was able to restrict them to six, doing changes also in implementations that I forwarded to Debian and the upstream's project.

* dotnet packages: Packaging dotnet6 and dotnet7 in Ubuntu as New packages not existent on Debian was my main task for a while, for which Foundations Team supported me. I was involved with upstream (as official distro maintainer at Canonical), but I finished the hand-off to the new .NET team under the Toolchain Squad on Foundations Team last year.

Things I could do better

Plans for the future

General

What I like least in Ubuntu

Please describe what you like least in Ubuntu and what thoughts do you have about fixing it.

Comments

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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.''
## Full list of sponsored packages can be generated here:
##  https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/ubuntu-sponsorships.cgi
=== Areas of Improvement ===