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I, Andres Rodriguez, apply for core-dev.

Name

Andres Rodriguez

Nickname

RoAkSoAx

Launchpad Page

https://launchpad.net/~andreserl

Wiki Page

http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AndresRodriguez

Who I am

My name is Andres Rodriguez, originally from Peru, but living in the US after completing a MSc in Telecommunications and Networking. I've been involved in the Ubuntu Community for quite a while now.

My Ubuntu story

It all began in 2007-12-02 when I became an Official Ubuntu Spanish Translator. After that, I became of of the Council Member for the Ubuntu Peruvian LoCo Team. This work, plus various conferences allowed me to became an Official Ubuntu Member.

In 2009-04-28 I started the Ubuntu High Availability team along with Ante Karamatic (ivoks) after determining that the HA Cluster Stack in Ubuntu was in bad shape, with the ideal to maintain it and improve it. Because of this, I wanted to be able to maintain the packages myself and I got involvement with development (in the Karmic cycle), with a MOTU Mentorship, being Ante my mentor. Short after that I became an Ubuntu MOTU Developer (2009-09-10).

Since then I've been contributing to Ubuntu in many ways.

As a community member I participated in various UDS'.

  • UDS-L Dallas: Where we held a Cluster Stack session with Ante.

  • UDS-M Brussels: Where we held another Cluster Stack session with Ante, and I held a TestDrive PyGTK Front-end session.

  • UDS-N Orlando: Where I held another Cluster Stack session, and I held a PowerNap improvements session.

Additionally, the software I maintain is:

  • TestDrive: As part as the GSoC2010 for Ubuntu, with the project TestDrive PyGTK Front-end. I'm the current upstream maintainer/developer.

  • PowerNap: My contributions started with improvements as part as my Operating Systems course project, as part as my last semester in school (Fall 2010). I'm currently the upstream maintainer/developer along with Dustin Kirkland.

My involvement

My current areas of involvement:

  • The Ubuntu Server team
  • The Ubuntu High Availability team (started by Ante and me)

  • Upstream developer for PowerNap.

  • Upstream developer for TestDrive.

Things I'm proud of

The things that I'm proud of:

  • I'm really proud of being involved in the Ubuntu Community, and becoming a MOTU.
  • I'm also proud of maintaining the HA Cluster Stack, and getting them packages in shape for them to be in the Ubuntu Main archive, starting from the Natty release cycle.

  • I'm really proud of TestDrive PyGTK Front-end.

  • Also, I'm really proud of the improvements made to PowerNap.

Examples of my work

  • Karmic
  • Lucid
  • Maverick

Natty

TestDrive (Universe):

From:

To:

ClusterStack:

PowerNap (main):

And from:

to:

Other (main):

Other Universe:

Sponsor Universe Uploads

Things I could do better

  • Be more involved with Sponsoring.

Plans for the future

General

  • Further improvements to PowerNap, to make it

  • Further improvements to the HA Cluster stack, as there's been quite a few changes upstream that other distributions are already shipping and we are not.

  • Further improvements to TestDrive PyGTK front-end to integrate better with Unity.

What I like least in Ubuntu

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