Application for ubuntu-desktop membership

[Patrick Stueck]

The same thing was said about the author of xz. Nobody should have the
authority to directly integrate their own packages.

On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 2:27 AM Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at canonical.com>
wrote:

> I can vouch for Daniel's long history working on desktop components and am
> sure he'll continue to do great work on Ubuntu desktop. +1 from me makes
> 3/3 - adding him to the team now.
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 6:47 PM Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey desktopers,
>>
>> I've worked with Daniel for a long time and I'm confident that he can be
>> trusted with access to the desktop set. He demonstrated high quality
>> work on our different desktop environments over the year, is one of our
>> top upstream contributors to GNOME and understands the Ubuntu
>> cycles/community/processes (SRU, freezes, ...). He's already actively
>> working on our desktop packages on launchpad and salsa and having direct
>> access should make things easier for everyone.
>>
>> +1 from me!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sébastien Bacher
>>
>> On 18/06/2024 07:16, Daniel van Vugt wrote:
>> > Hi desktoppers,
>> >
>> > I would like to be considered for membership in the ubuntu-desktop team.
>> >
>> > Starting as a Linux user in the 1990s, I moved to Ubuntu around about
>> 2007. In
>> > 2011 I started contributing to the Unity desktop and was asked to join
>> > Canonical. In 2012 I joined the Canonical Desktop team as the full time
>> > maintainer of Compiz underlying the Unity desktop. In 2013 I moved onto
>> the Mir
>> > team and stayed there until 2017 when I returned to the Canonical
>> Desktop team
>> > where I remain today.
>> >
>> > Throughout this time I've had countless uploads sponsored, and have
>> remained
>> > the top (human) contributor to bug management karma in Ubuntu for most
>> of a decade.
>> >
>> > Being able to upload packages myself would remove the biggest delay I
>> > experience in my daily work and make the whole team slightly more
>> efficient.
>> > Thanks for your consideration...
>> >
>> > - Daniel
>> >
>> >
>>
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