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I, Eric Desrochers, apply for sru-uploader.

Name

Eric Desrochers

IRC

slashd

Email

slashd@ubuntu.com

Launchpad Page

https://launchpad.net/~slashd

Wiki Page

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/slashd

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

Upstream

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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