I, Arif Ali, apply for upload rights for package sosreport.

I am applying because:

• I'd like to eliminate delays in getting my work sponsored.
• I'd like to reduce the burden on my sponsors.

Who I am

Tell us a bit about yourself.

My Ubuntu story

Tell us how and when you got involved, what you liked working on and what you could probably do better.

My involvement

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

Below you can see the sponsorships for the work I have done since May 2024

• Ubuntu Sponorships

• Debian Sponsorships

The things I am proud of with sosreport project:

• I have been contributing to upstream sosreport since I joined Canonical
• Got much more involved since April 2023 and made significant improvements
• In December 2023 I was added as one of the maintainers of the project

• Due to significant issues with 4.7.0 SRU, I revamped the whole CI for sosreport, and we now do more CI for ubuntu than RedHat (where the CI is sponsored by RH)

• Added various functional testing based on issues we have faced in Ubuntu.
• Added non-voting testing for latest dev releases to that we catch issues before any SRU takes place.
• Took over as maintainer of sosreport in Debian in July 2024 which is now being auto-synced to Ubuntu

Areas of work

Let us know what you worked on, with which development teams / developers with whom you cooperated and how it worked out.

I work in the Support Engineering at Canonical, and we use sosreport as a regular tool for our support organisation, so haven't worked with a development team or developer directly per-se. Between myself and David Negreira we both contribute to upstream sosreport as well all the verification work that is required for sosreport SRUs.

For the SRU work, I have worked very closely with Dariusz Gadomski and Mauricio Oliveira who have guided me in the ways of ubuntu packaging and SRU process.

I have worked on many sosreport bugs

Things I could do better

Plans for the future

General

• Keep improving and maintaining the sosreport packages for Ubuntu.
• I am also applying for DM in Debian for sosreport, and will continue to maintain the Debian package into unstable, testing and moving forward the backports.

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

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== <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 ===

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