I, Alexandre Ghiti, apply for MOTU status within the Ubuntu community.

I am applying because:

* I have contributed quite a few packages now, to both Debian and Ubuntu and feel comfortable enough with the overall process.

* I sometimes worked on a package, waiting for a sponsor, and someone else uploaded it in the meantime: this is a waste of time for everyone.

* It will also my team to clear our sponsorship queue.

* I want to get more responsibility, because the more responsible, the more I feel involved and happy to contribute.

Who I am

I am a software engineer living in Grenoble, France, I currently work in the Foundations team for Canonical. I usually contribute to the kernel, my focus being RISC-V and when I don't, I work on some personal projects (all involve my computer of course :)).

My Ubuntu story

I discovered the free software late when I entered my Engineering school in Grenoble, but I have been programming since I'm a teen, at that time my focus was more algorithmic so I did not have the need to tickle my environment. (I really understood the need for free software in my first job when the project was to create a new high-performance processor: without a free and open-source kernel, compiler...etc, this would have been impossible.)

I studied operating systems and began contributing to open source software with the kernel as I had experience in this area from my first job and I was willing to help (and have fun too).

I usually had a Linux Mint distribution from the time of my cheap student laptop and then switched to Ubuntu when I installed it to some close relatives a few years ago, so I guess I have always used Ubuntu

My involvement

My focus is on enabling the RISC-V architecture which consists in fixing RISC-V specific issues and adding packages to allow better support of existing hardware. But as part of the Foundations team, it often happens that I have to fix packages outside of the RISC-V scope.

In the long term,

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

Overall:

37 sponsored packages:

https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/ubuntu-sponsorships.cgi?render=html&sponsor=&sponsor_search=name&sponsoree=*ghiti*&sponsoree_search=name

2 MIRs:

* https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libisofs/+bug/1977959 * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jigit/+bug/1978066

4 SRUs:

* https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1944741 * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nezha-boot0/+bug/1965260 * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/u-boot-nezha/+bug/1976594 * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flash-kernel/+bug/1978923

Areas of work

Low-level packages such as u-boot, opensbi, flash-kernel...etc. But actually anything to enhance our RISC-V support.

Things I could do better

I don't 'work' enough to get known by the community, because this is my nature and also because of a sentiment of lack of legitimacy which will be partly fixed by becoming a MOTU.

I learnt a lot about the processes, but now I have to focus on the details, it happens that I forget a bug number, that I mess a version in my PPA and ask for my sponsor to fix these.

Plans for the future

General

I want to work on the distribution fundamentals and by its nature, the RISC-V architecture brings new kinds of problems that may need innovative solutions.

What I like least in Ubuntu

The sponsoring process: it is very long, random, discouraging and time wasting.

Comments

If you'd like to comment, but are not the applicant or a sponsor, do it here. Don't forget to sign with @SIG@.

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 ===

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