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I, Eric Desrochers, apply for sru-uploader.
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Who I am
I joined Canonical in August 2014 as a Technical Account Manager within Canonical's STS team. As a result of hard work and effort, I earned respect from my peers. Since then, I got promoted into the Sustaining Engineering team where some of my responsibilities are : driving customer and community bugs into resolution by troubleshooting, fixing bugs, providing guidance & workarounds, for different areas of expertise which may cover areas such as: kernel, drivers, virtualization, network, cloud, storage setups, ... and physical/virtual environment orchestration. Also working with other members within Canonical Ubuntu Engineering, Cloud Development Operations Team, Ubuntu User and Developers Community, Upstream Communities, ...
My Ubuntu story
I officially started to used Ubuntu in 2006 for my personal computers. In the same time, in my professional life, I was also deploying a few hundreds OpenVZ (Virtuozzo) containers running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake).
Ten years later, I am still running Ubuntu on my personal computers and now have the chance to work for Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. I've been a Technical Account Manager for 2 years and now I'm in the sustaining engineering team.
Ubuntu memberships
SRU Developer
Ubuntu Contributing Developer
Ubuntu Member
Ubuntu Bug Control
Ubuntu Bug Squad
My involvement
I'm proud to be part of the support team and being responsible to fix userspace, kernel ,... for the Ubuntu community and Canonical customers.
I'm also proud of rbasak and I joint efforts to prepare and then convince the DMB to unanimously vote +1 for the creation of a new launchpad team: sru-uploader.
SRU
Kernel
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1546320
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1581169
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-xenial/+bug/1572630
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1512815
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1650635
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Upstream
ZFSonLinux (ZoL) https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/4680
Makedumpfile (ML : kexec@lists.infradead.org) The fix will be merge in v1.6.2
Areas of work
I've been mostly involved in fixing userland and kernel bugs for Canonical's UA customers. Working on various packaging aspects including hotfix/testfix, SRUs, backports patches, submit patch to Debian (Of course, to contribute in fixing Debian but also to prevent the bug to recur in future Ubuntu merge/sync from Debian), Upstream patch, ...
Things I could do better
Build and consistently sustain my network by attending more local networking events in my area.
Plans for the future
General
I wish one day to have the chance to give back by mentoring someone the same way I've been mentored. Start participating to the development release with merges and syncs.
What I like least in Ubuntu
In general, documentation is good but unfortunately not maintained nor updated, which have the effect to turn out-to-date very quickly.
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