I, Stéphane Graber, apply for core-dev.

Who I am

I'm Stéphane Graber, currently living in Canada and working for Revolution Linux as LTSP developer and liaison with the Ubuntu community. I develop and maintain LTSP and LTSP-Cluster for Revolution Linux, the first being already in main, the second being packaged at the moment. I also maintain iTalc which we use for classroom management on LTSP networks and help when possible the edubuntu project so we have a good set of educational softwares available in Ubuntu.

My Ubuntu story

I started using Linux 9 years ago switching from a distro to another for a few years, then using Debian most of the time before switching to Ubuntu with Warty. I first contributed by doing testing/bug reporting mainly on LTSP and Edubuntu around Edgy's release then contributed mainly in the QA team by working on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker. After UDS-Boston I started to maintain iTalc, got more involved in community activities (EMEA council, loco team leader, ...) and finally started maintaining LTSP and all its components. At UDS-Karmic I was voted as an Edubuntu council member and worked on the Edubuntu Strategy document to get that project active again.

I attended UDSes: Boston, Prague (Fosscamp only), Mountain View and Barcelona

My involvement

• Current maintainer of ltsp/ltspfs/ldm/italc in Main
• MOTU
• Administrator of the Ubuntu QA team
• Main developer of the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker
• Member of the EMEA membership approval board
• Edubuntu council member
• Upstream for: Mirrorkit, pastebinit, LTSP and LTSP-cluster

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

• LTSP and its components in Intrepid, Jaunty and Karmic
• iTalc and its launcher scripts since Hardy
• Bug triaging and fixing for LTSP, iTalc and some other packages

Things I could do better

• Improve the community around LTSP in Ubuntu (testing, bug reporting, documentation, ...)
• Work on doing some SRUs for LTSP and iTalc or at least mentor someone to do it

Plans for the future

General

• Taking a more important part in Edubuntu's development (packaging and release management)
• Get LTSP's experience to be as similar to the regular desktop one as possible
• Work on getting a SRU process for LTSP (and finding people willing to help cherry-picking fixes)

What I like least in Ubuntu

Some process being unclear for external people or newcomers and therefore giving them the feeling of being sort-of rejected by other developers.

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