I, Nathan Pratta Teodosio, apply for Ubuntu Contributing Developer.

I am applying because:

• I have been consistently contributing to Ubuntu for more than a year, in form of
  • Chromium maintenance,
  • Bug, build and test fixes,
  • New features.

Who I am

I am a software developer in Canonical's desktop team.

I apparently have a old style taste because I love Launchpad, IRC and old user interfaces (I'm looking at you, Motif!).

My Ubuntu story

Back as a undergraduate I was introduced to GNU Linux in scientific computing — in the venerable Fortran. Right away I realized that was something special I was missing. I installed Ubuntu in my personal computer, initially dual-booting alongside the existing Windows. It wasn't long before I kicked the latter out for good. And, goes without saying, never looked back.

I used a couple of other distributions since, e.g. Debian and Gentoo, but maintain an admiration for Ubuntu as the just works/get things done distribution and I am therefore glad to contribute to it.

My involvement

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

• Chromium maintenance: snap and up to 18.04's end of life, deb.

• Ubuntu Pro integration in gnome-initial-setup and software-properties-gtk.

Areas of work

Specific cases on Chromium snap:

• Hardware acceleration project

• Fixing PWA

Contributions to Snapd.

Generally I do work for packages concerning the desktop. SRU submission/verification, unblocking packages failing to build from source or failing autopkgtests.

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/blender/+bug/2033618

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1991293

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/duplicity/+bug/2035603

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk4/+bug/2032638

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pygobject/+bug/1979347

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jammy/+source/speech-dispatcher/+bug/1991022

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/1976623

Debian contributions.

Things I could do better

Be more mindful of whether a fix is really worth the delta or if just waiting for a sync is good enough.

Better understand the release cycles with all its freezes not only in Ubuntu but also in Debian and how this affects the expected workload in a given time point.

Plans for the future

General

What I like least in Ubuntu

Some snaps can take long to launch, switching to LZO compression can help significantly.

It's usually difficult to tell where snaps with an open source license are built, where the VCS repository is and where to file bug reports. So, in general, their documentation. I think this hinders user involvement. First having Snapd exposing the source-code directive in snap info might be a good start and then submitting requests for documenting the snaps with contact and other relevant information.

Comments

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Endorsements

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Sebastien Bacher

Nathan has been working in the Canonical Desktop Team for over a year now. He's our chromium maintainer and has been doing a great job keep the deb (for old series) and the snap uptodate and in shape. He's also actively engaged in the GNOME packaging in Debian and Ubuntu. In addition to those he has been stepping up to participate to +1 rotations and help with Ubuntu archive issues. I strongly recommend him as a contributing developer!

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