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| Hey. I'm Iain and I'm just starting to get involved with MOTUing. I'm a final year Computer Science student at the University of Nottingham, England. | Just a guy who's too lazy to maintain an up-to-date wiki page. |
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| [https://launchpad.net/~laney/ Here]'s me on Launchpad, and [http://orangesquash.org.uk here] is my blog. | Here's some static information. |
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| = Bugs = | Born in 1986, I spent 19 years in Cambridgeshire, England before flying the nest and moving a little way north to the wonderful city of Nottingham. Here I studied at the university and obtained a degree in Computer Science. At the end of this, I decided that I hadn't suffered enough and embarked on a PhD course. I'm working in the area of Functional Programming and Type Theory. |
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| I don't really have a favourite package or area yet, preferring to just pick up bugs that I think I can do and try and solve them (with the help of the ''awesome'' #ubuntu-motu!) Bitesize preferred at the moment, although I've just started to branch out a bit... | In the Ubuntu world, I started using in around 2006ish, when I built a new machine and decided that Vista wasn't going to get anywhere near it. I first started contributing 2008, with [[https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-tools/1.0.15-2ubuntu2|an upload sponsored by dtchen]]. I became a MOTU in February 2009 — if memory serves then it was actually St. Valentine's day, how fitting. :). |
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| == Patches accepted == ||'''Number'''||'''Package'''||'''Title'''|| ||[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-tools/+bug/159727 Bug #159727]||alsa-tools||all desktop files in alsa-tool-gui package do not specify icons|| ||[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fet/+bug/191574 Bug #191574]||fet||Doesn't have a .desktop file|| == Goals == ||'''Goal'''||'''Status'''|| ||Fix a bitesize bug||Done|| ||Fix a non-bitesize bug||Pending...|| ||Update a package||Not done|| ||Package something new||Not done|| ||Get MOTU status||Long way off ;)|| |
These days I contribute mainly in Debian. I'm in the pkg-mono/pkg-cli-apps/pkg-cli-libs team, working on Mono and related applications/libraries. I'm also in pkg-haskell, working on Haskell libraries and applications (related to my day work). I believe very strongly that the absolute best way to contribute to Ubuntu is to contribute to Debian. Packaging teams are amazing: groups of people with specialist knowledge about their domain. Join one. Cherish it, nurture it and we will all have better packages and ultimately a better quality distribution. Debian is where the best minds work. Ubuntu is just the icing on the cake. :) |
Just a guy who's too lazy to maintain an up-to-date wiki page.
Here's some static information.
Born in 1986, I spent 19 years in Cambridgeshire, England before flying the nest and moving a little way north to the wonderful city of Nottingham. Here I studied at the university and obtained a degree in Computer Science. At the end of this, I decided that I hadn't suffered enough and embarked on a PhD course. I'm working in the area of Functional Programming and Type Theory.
In the Ubuntu world, I started using in around 2006ish, when I built a new machine and decided that Vista wasn't going to get anywhere near it. I first started contributing 2008, with an upload sponsored by dtchen. I became a MOTU in February 2009 — if memory serves then it was actually St. Valentine's day, how fitting. :).
These days I contribute mainly in Debian. I'm in the pkg-mono/pkg-cli-apps/pkg-cli-libs team, working on Mono and related applications/libraries. I'm also in pkg-haskell, working on Haskell libraries and applications (related to my day work). I believe very strongly that the absolute best way to contribute to Ubuntu is to contribute to Debian. Packaging teams are amazing: groups of people with specialist knowledge about their domain. Join one. Cherish it, nurture it and we will all have better packages and ultimately a better quality distribution. Debian is where the best minds work. Ubuntu is just the icing on the cake. 
IainLane (last edited 2010-10-20 10:37:37 by franc)